PBS“Ancestry Review Series Find your roots It shows once and again that Hollywood is more related than people can think and, in the episode of April 1, of the show, Sheryl lee ralph He was surprised to know that he is a distant cousin of Samuel L. Jackson.
Continue reading to find out how they are related and their response to finding out that a new family member has.
Ralph and Jackson share a long section of DNA
In the episode, the host Henry Louis Gates Jr. He told the actor to share a “long stretch of DNA on his 16th chromosomes” with one of the biggest stars in Hollywood.
“This means that they have a common ancestor somewhere in their family trees,” Gates Jr. explained. People.
The 68 -year -old erupted laughing when he turned the page and found a picture of Jackson, his distant cousin.
She said, “Are you joking ?! and I really like it!”
Ralph added that the revelation makes sense, as she always thought that the actor “reminds me of my brother Timothy … For any reason, I don’t know why.”
Gates Jr. She said that the connection must be “to DNA” and she agreed.
“Guau,” Ralph said as he admired his new cousin.
Later in the episode, Ralph gestured that the news made his head exploded.
Jackson is already part of a starry family tree
For Jackson, Ralph is only the last celebrity to join his starry family tree. In August, Janet Jackson said to BBC’s Radio 2 breakfast program 2 That Samuel L. Jackson, along with Stevie Wonder and Tracy Chapman, are his cousins, People reported.
“Not many people know,” he said in the morning program, adding that they are cousins of his “mother’s side”.
Other recent family ties of celebrities discovered Find your roots
In addition to Ralph, other celebrities have appeared on the PBS program and learned that some famous family members have. In a recent episode, Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey actors learned that they were DNA cousins with Bernie Sanders and Questlove respectively.
