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Watch: Bob Odenkirk Shocked to Learn He’s Related to King Charles III
See a pair of exclusive clips from the PBS series ‘Finding Your Roots’ about the ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul’ actor’s surprising ancestry.
There have been many mind-blowing revelations on Finding Your Roots, the Henry Louis Gates Jr.-hosted PBS television series that employs a team of professional genealogists to trace celebrities’ ancestral histories. We’ve learned that Bernie Sanders is related to his SNL doppelgänger Larry David, that actor Joe Manganiello is part-Black and descended from slaves, and that LeVar Burton is part-white, which caused the Roots star to jokingly scream, “Nooooooo!” According to Gates and his team of researchers, Odenkirk’s late mother Barbara’s great-great-grandfather was a man named François Xavier Fricker, a French carpenter born in 1820.
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