To not realise these celebs were related?!

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Found out today that Chris Packham and Jenny Packham are siblings, as are Clare Balding and Gordon Ramsey. Learn something every day!

Kate Beckinsale has a half sister Samantha Beckinsale who is also an actor. She was in Londons Burning some years ago and now does a lot of work supporting women who have suffered domestic abuse.

I used to think that Amanda Holden was the daughter or granddaughter of the actor William Holden...

No, they’re first cousins. That’s why they couldn’t get married, it’s legal, but they felt like it was too close.

Paul Lewis and Martin Lewis are twins.

haha amazing!

MNHQ, if we askreally nicely can we have the laugh emoji back? Even if it’s for this post only because this one has won the internet for today.

No.... Lisa referred to her as Cousin Jessica once when picking up a celebrity gossip magazine at the supermarket.
"Ooh let's read what cousin Jessica has been up too" she said.

Why on earth do you think Clare Balding is Gordon Ramsay's sister?! I'm sure that's not true!

The one I think is funny is Big Mo from EastEnders is Gary Oldman's older sister.

Hiding in plain sight I'm afraid...

And LEWIS!!!! from Inspector Morse is their uncle.

This is the best one, it’s so unlikely 🤣

And of course their sister/daughter Linda was the child star of The Exorcist.

Matt Goss and Luke Goss were going to do ancestry to see if they were related but they decided against it as it would set the Cat among The Pigeons…

Jamie Oliver and Oliver Cromwell are uncle and nephew

Roy Keane's brothers formed the group, Keane.

Gloria steinem is christian and gareth bale's step mum.

Claudia Winkleman’s half sister is Big Suze from Peep Show (Sophie Winkleman) and her cousin is Tracy-Ann Oberman.

And of course the role of Old Mother Hubbard is often overlooked in the history of Scientology despite her son being L Ron Hubbard.

Jamie Oliver and Oliver James were conjoined symmetrical twins, but were split and seperated at birth. They were conjoined by their earlobes only.

Laurence Fox is cousins with Fantastic Mr. But understandably they don't want anything to do with the prized knobhead, so they only see each other at family parties and funerals.

Yeah OP, people will laugh because they simply didn’t make these important connections.
Like, for example, Kate Bush is a direct descendant of The Burning Bush and is, therefore, very much instrumental in the fact that Moses went on to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.
Mad, when you really stop to think.

Of course George Michael is a direct descendant of St Michael. You know, the one who founded Marks and Spencers.

Josh Widdecombe is Anne Widdecombe's father.

Is it true that Alf Roberts had a daughter called Justine?

I know it’s not a genetic relationship, but Homer Simpson’s lawyer when he had to sort out paternity payments was Kim Kardashian.

That just blows my mind.

Thomas Cromwell was one of their dads. Before his unfortunate meeting with the guillotine.