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Obama’s eighth cousin is Dick Cheney.
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Niecy Nash, Sterling Ok. Brown, and Danielle Brooks are cousins.
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Jon Hamm taught Ellie Kemper’s drama class when she was a freshman in highschool. Later, when she was making an attempt to make it in LA, she used her highschool’s listing to succeed in out to Hamm (who was then starring in Mad Males) and invited him to her one-person comedy present—and he got here!
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Adam Levine and Jonah Hill knew one another in childhood, as their dad and mom have been good associates. “Our youngsters grew up collectively, virtually like brothers and sisters,” Levine’s mother, Patsy Noah, mentioned.
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Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston went to Eton collectively, and even costarred within the play A Passage to India — Redmayne was the lead, whereas Hiddleston “performed the entrance proper leg of the elephant that Eddie was on,” as he informed Graham Norton.
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Prince William additionally went to Eton and was even on a rugby workforce with Redmayne in 1997.
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Jennifer Aniston was in a pal group with Chaz Bono in highschool, and would typically hang around at Cher’s home. Cher remembers her as taking probably the most snacks from the snack drawer.
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Aniston has been associates with Adam Sandler since 1990, when the 2 met at a deli in Los Angeles as a result of Aniston was courting Sandler’s pal.
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Talking of Sandler, he lived with Judd Apatow earlier than they have been each well-known in a $900/month condo within the Valley. Sandler finally left to hitch the solid of SNL, however continued to pay lease, as he was fearful he was going to get fired and have to return to LA.
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Justin Timberlake’s mother was Ryan Gosling’s guardian for a 12 months whereas Timberlake and Gosling appeared on Mickey Mouse Membership Home, as Gosling’s mother needed to return to Canada and could not function his guardian on set.
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Mindy Kaling interned on Conan O’Brien’s present earlier than she was well-known.
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Talking of Conan — Lisa Kudrow and Conan O’Brien dated within the ’80s, earlier than they have been well-known, after assembly at an improv class.
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Drake went to highschool with Elliot Web page — and apparently wasn’t very good to him. He wrote on his weblog, “I used to be watching Juno tonight on the tour bus and I’m so happy with you…you have been at all times the neatest and wittiest individual in our class and I solely made enjoyable of you and acted like an asshole trigger I had a crush on you.”
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Neve Campbell and Allison Tablet additionally went to that very same highschool.
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Extra highschool classmates: Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman! They might find yourself turning into shut associates, with Watts saying of Kidman, “She made me her sister. Her smaller sister. Nicole epitomizes for me the phrase ‘sisterhood.'”
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Guess who additionally went to highschool collectively? Spencer Pratt and the Olsen twins — Pratt claims he bought a photograph of Mary-Kate consuming at a celebration to the tabloids for $50,000.
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Tia and Tamara Mowry babysat Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen for a half-day once they have been round seven or eight on the set of Full Home. Their brother Tahj was showing on the present on the time. “They have been very younger. So candy, so type. I keep in mind all they needed was matzo ball soup,” Tamera revealed.
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Andy Samberg and Chelsea Peretti went to elementary faculty collectively, and Peretti had a crush on Samberg. The 2 would later costar on Brooklyn 9-9.
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Maya Rudolph and Gwyneth Paltrow additionally went to elementary faculty collectively.
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Jonah Hill additionally went there, although not on the similar time. Oh, and Maude Apatow, Zosia Mamet, Kate Hudson, Jack Quaid, Charlie Corridor, Maya Rudolph, Liv Tyler, Zooey Deschanel, and Emily Deschanel.
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Jack Black additionally transferred to the varsity — Crossroads College — when he was a sophomore, and he helped coach Rudolph for an improv competitors, then took her to her first Groundlings present. Rudolph would find yourself becoming a member of an improv group there that might result in her SNL hiring. However again at school, she had a crush on Black, who she known as “the theater god at my faculty.” He additionally taught her find out how to drive a stick shift.
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Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand have been faculty roommates once they attended Yale Drama College — then lived collectively after graduating, too.
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Additionally they, at one level, lived in an condo with Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Scott Spiegel, the Coen Brothers, and Kathy Bates.
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Am I the one one who did not know Matty Healy was a nepo child? His mother is actor and tv persona Denise Welch.
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Alison Williams labored as Tina Fey’s assistant earlier than she was well-known.
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Usher used to observe Beyoncé and the remainder of her singing group (then The Dolls) once they got here to Atlanta to work with producer Daryl Simmons. “I needed to watch them ‘trigger I used to be the authority ‘trigger I suppose I used to be {the teenager} on the time,” he mentioned, saying he needed to make “sure that they did not get in no hassle in the home on the time.”
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Brandy and Snoop Dogg are first cousins, in line with Snoop.
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Talking of Brandy — she went to promenade with none aside from Kobe Bryant.
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Bianca Lawson is Beyoncé and Solange’s ste-sister.
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Whitney Houston’s mother Cissy Houston was a backup singer for each Elvis, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin.
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Josh Brolin’s stepmom is none aside from Barbara Streisand.
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Years earlier than they costarred in Barbie, Kate McKinnon and America Ferrera went to a summer time appearing program collectively whereas they have been each in highschool.
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Kate McKinnon was additionally associates with Barbie director Greta Gerwig earlier than they have been well-known. The 2 have been in an improv group collectively in faculty and “made actually splendidly unusual musicals collectively.”
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Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain have identified one another since they attended Julliard collectively.
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Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen are brothers, which I can not consider I by no means knew.
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Bethenny Frankel was Paris and Nicky Hilton’s nanny once they have been youngsters. She would take them ice skating, to the pet store, or purchasing after faculty.
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Years earlier than each starring in The Workplace, John Krasinski and BJ Novak went to highschool collectively. They have been additionally on a bit of league workforce collectively.
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Jason Segel and Kevin Hart shared a one-bedroom condo for six months — as a result of Apatow informed them to. The 2 had each appeared in a pilot Apatow directed. (The sequence didn’t get picked up.)
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And eventually, Pete Wentz’s dad and mom met working for Joe Biden within the Nineteen Seventies. Which signifies that with out Biden’s political profession, Pete Wentz — and by extension, Fall Out Boy — would not exist.
