This time, six degrees of Kevin Bacon led him back to his wife, Kyra Sedgwick. While the pair is related in holy matrimony already, they also happen to be distant cousins — who would have thunk it? The New York Daily News reports that the couple discovered that they’re related while appearing on the PBS show, “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” The series uses genealogy research to find people’s roots and family connections, and that’s when Bacon and Sedgwick realized they were distantly related. According to Meaww, the famous couple are ninth cousins, once removed. This makes us wonder if we’re related to Bacon, too? “See. I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it!” Sedgwick exclaimed on the show when she heard the news.
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Sedgwick also talked about the crazy discovery years later, during a 2017 interview with The Wrap, and it turns out she wasn’t as surprised as we were to find out the relation, ahem other relation, to her husband. “I figured I was going to be related to Kevin Bacon — I mean, most white people are related, ultimately,” Sedgwick revealed. “I wasn’t surprised, honestly. Frankly, I figured that was part of the reason that they wanted to do both of us. I had to act surprised.” Hey, at least her acting skills were put to good use!
