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Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey discover they have some surprising relatives

At this point, it seems like all the famous people in the world may somehow be related.

Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey are the two latest celebrities to discover that their family tree is bigger than they knew. The pair of actresses are featured on the February 25 episode of “Finding Your Roots,” where the host Henry Louis Gates Jr. shared the news that they both have some surprising distant cousins. Messing discovered that her distant cousin is politician Bernie Sanders, which caused her to declare, “Are you kidding me?

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