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Who do you think you are turns 20: How BBC hit revealed Danny Dyer's royal lineage and Judi Dench's father's heroics and encouraged millions of Brits to research their own family trees
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: One notorious moment epitomises Who Do You Think You Are? at its very best. In 2016, Danny Dyer traced his ancestry around East London.
More than 160 celebrities have appeared on the show, beginning with Bill Oddie, Amanda Redman and Sue Johnston in 2004, and with Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm, Olympian Jessica Ennis-Hill and singer Olly Murs among those taking part this time round. Seven out of ten people say they're interested in knowing more about their family tree, and I'm one of them: during lockdown, I went hunting through court records and yellowing newspaper cuttings to piece together the facts about my great-great-great grandfather Thomas Courtain Chivers. And actor Mark Gatiss, who relishes tales of the gothic and macabre, was thrilled to hear of an Irish ancestor who once slew a vampire and buried its corpse head-first under a great stone.
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