Danny Dyer on Who Do You Think You Are?

[Pidlan]

Is anyone else watching this? He is such an arse!

It might be more noteworthy to have no royal connections at all if you can get back to 1300 :) I can't get back much further than the 1500s with mine. There are three possible branches that could go off to minor nobility but nothing probable on any of them and nothing to indicate any link to serious nobility.

I thought it was an hour of great tv! Really enjoyed it!

It was a good programme. Cringed when DD couldn't pronounce Planantaganet.

What about the lady who had baby's partner in later years, she had several dc,The great aunt dad's, no mention of him. Wondered what the story was there. He may have been away in WW2.

Plantagenet.

Why do so many people think his accent is fake - he's from Canning Town, a lot of people from there have strong accents.

I knew there would be a thread. I loved it. I didn't even like Danny Dyer. God bless him.

Laughing at everyone being so po-faced about this. Actually the parallels between Cromwell and Danny were well drawn.

I too wondered whether he was playing up the cockney image. But what struck me most was how uneducated he is; the historians were palpably having to humour him due to his lack of general knowledge. That aspect was a bit embarrassing frankly.

wideboy26 maybe he was playing up the cockney image, he is an actor, but to criticise someone because he seems 'uneducated' is pretty low. Lots of people are uneducated for lots of reasons but they don't pour scorn on others. Sometimes the snobbishness on this site amazes me.

I really enjoyed this programme, sometimes the cockney geezer bit got on my nerves, but he seemed genuine in his interest. Hope the other episodes are as good.

I noticed on the opening credits that Cheryl Tweedy-Cole-Fernandez-Versini seems to be just going as plain old 'Cheryl' these days. Reminds me of the lovely Cheryl from the Royle Family

Sometimes the snobbishness on this site amazes me. Yes. I thought Danny and Lord Tollemache got on famously.

I noticed on the opening credits that Cheryl Tweedy-Cole-Fernandez-Versini seems to be just going as plain old 'Cheryl' these days.

Ahh! I didn't realise who she was

Can't abide him (terrible actor, worse than Shane Ritchie if that's at all possible). Danny Dire is such a caricature of himself (and I know that makes no sense). He comes over as slightly dim. The episode was quite interesting though.

I knew Danny Dyer vaguely many years ago when he used to hang around with my ex's nephews. He is an east end geezer... all the other men he grew up with are the same... His gf made me laugh at the end and he did all the way through- he doesn't take himself to seriously and seems happy with his lot. So much better life than many of his friends when he was young- most are inside, have drug problems or living on the role.. I say well done to him!

I thought his head was going to explode when he found out he was related to Edward III and thus William the conqueror. He got quite emotional with it all. Up there with my favourite episodes inc Brian Blessed's when he went to the grave of his ancestor and genuinely connected and Jeremy Irons' episode where he came full circle back to his home where his ancestor had lived a few miles away. It was a place he was always drawn to and had thought he had no connection to.

I loved the bit at the end when he was standing beside great granddad Eddie III's tomb, historian man told him about William the Conqueror and then they played the rousing snippet of Handel's Coronation Anthem

Interesting, wasn't it?

Went back to Thomas Cromwell whose son married Jane Seymour's sister.

But were the Seymours descended from Edward III?

Here's the maths.

Over 22 generations, if each generation had on average 2 surviving children there would currently be (2^22) 4,194,304 descendants (half the population of London).

If they had on average 3 surviving children there would currently be (3^22) 31,381,059,609 descendants. 31 trillion, 381 billion, 59 thousand and 609! Many more people than there are currently in the world.

Going back that far is pretty much pointless.

Wowzers at those sums!

What about Thomas Cromwell? His link to him is probably rarer?

No one complains about Matthew Pinsent and Alexander Armstrong being descended from William I.

Who's complaining?

Alexander Armstrong came in for a proper bashing on a thread last week so I don't think he's held in special esteem.

Yes but those numbers are daft. Obviously there couldn't be that many descendants on average for each person alive 22 generations back or there'd be trillions of people in every country!

Yes but those numbers are daft. Obviously there couldn't be that many descendants on average for each person alive 22 generations back or there'd be trillions of people in every country! This made me laugh like a drain.

Why doesn't Cheryl just use her maiden name Tweedy seeing as it's a programme about ancestry. Surely in her programme she will try and trace the Tweedy side . Why doesn't she have a surname at all now . Even Elvis was just as well known as Elvis Presley.