Michael Douglas got the surprise of a lifetime at the end of Tuesday's episode of PBS' Finding Your Roots, where he learned he was related to Scarlett Johansson .
Michael Douglas got the surprise of a lifetime at the end of Tuesday's episode of PBS' Finding Your Roots, where he learned he was related to Scarlett Johansson.
Gates revealed at the end of the new episode - which also featured Girls creator Lena Dunham - that the 79-year-old actor - who was recently seen golfing in Montecito - is a distant relative of Johansson, 39. At the end of Douglas' huge book containing his family tree, he flipped to a page featuring a picture of Johansson, as he laughed and said, 'Ah! You're kidding!'
Gates added the identical DNA stretches all occur on Scarlett's maternal lines, 'which stretch back to Jewish communities in Eastern Europe.'Oddly enough, an earlier episode also revealed that Bravo host Andy Cohen is also related to Johansson. 'This is the hottest information I could have ever gotten,' Dunham said, as Gates explained she and David share, 'multiple, long, identical segments of DNA with you and your mother.'
Gates added that meant that both David and her share, 'at least one common ancestor' on her mother's side of the family tree.
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