| Romantically linked to Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lopez, before marrying Jennifer Garner in 2005;
he and Lopez were together known as 'Bennifer' |
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Ben Affleck |
| Pop star: once lived with Harry Enfield while he was in a relationship with her mother |
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Lily Allen |
| Famous footballer (died in 2019, aged 81) whose nephew Nick (same surname) is the drummer in Pulp |
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Gordon Banks |
| Actress: great–granddaughter of Herbert Henry Asquith; romantically linked with Kenneth Branagh
(1994–9) and film director Tim Burton (2001–14 – they lived in adjoining houses, and had one son and one daughter) |
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Helena Bonham Carter |
| Actor, who played Alf Garnett's son–in–law Mike (the "randy
Scouse git") in Till Death Us Do Part: father of Cherie Blair; he was in a relationship with actress Pat Phoenix (Elsie Tanner
in Coronation Street) for six years, and they married a few days before her death from lung cancer in 1986; he died in 2017, aged 85 |
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Anthony Booth |
| Actor: first cousin once removed of fellow actor Terry–Thomas |
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Richard Briers |
| Television presenter, second cousin of singer–songwriter Ed Sheeran |
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Gordon Burns |
| Actor: nephew of Francis Ford Coppola (and cousin of Sophia Coppola) |
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Nicholas Cage |
| Princess Diana's step–grandmother |
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Barbara Cartland |
| 'Adopted' by Alastair Sim, after they acted together when he was 15 (there was no formal
arrangement) |
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George Cole |
| Daughter of Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis |
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Jamie Lee Curtis |
| Discovered by Andy Warhol aged 13, and appeared in his film Flesh aged 16; romantically linked with
Cat Stevens (1969–70?) and Don Johnson (1981–6 – they have one son, actor Jesse Johnson, born 1982)
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Patti D'Arbanville |
| Before marrying Rebecca Miller, also had a son with Isabelle Adjani, the first French actress to
receive two Oscar nominations |
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Daniel Day–Lewis |
| Doctor Who actors who became father–in–law and son–in–law (one
married the other's daughter, actress Georgia Moffett) |
Father–in–law |
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Peter Davison |
| Son–in–law |
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David Tennant |
| Jean–Paul Sartre's partner, from 1929 until his death in 1980 |
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Simone de Beauvoir |
| Cousins: Oscar was a cinema entrepreneur (founder of the Odeon chain, 1928), Arnold was a Soviet spy,
responsible for recruiting Kim Philby and controller of the 'Cambridge Five' in the 1930s |
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Deutsch |
| Better–known cousin of Gretchen Franklin, who played Ethel Skinner in EastEnders (she died in
2005, aged 94; he died in 2012, aged 92) |
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Clive Dunn |
| Singer: daughter of a former Blue Peter presenter (Janet Ellis); married to Richard Jones, bass player
of The Feeling |
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Sophie Ellis–Bextor |
| Reportedly had an affair with Chris Evert, which was a factor in the break–up of her marriage
to John Lloyd |
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Adam Faith |
| Daughter of Lord Longford |
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Lady Antonia Fraser |
| Daughter a TV sports presenter (Sky Sports, etc.): father a golfer and former Ryder Cup captain |
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Gallagher (Kirsty, Bernard) |
| Former star of the Disney Channel's Wizards of Waverly Place: romantically linked to
Justin Bieber, 2011–15 (in 2011, he was 17 and she was 19) |
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Selena Gomez |
| English comedian and actress (1910–79): niece of Nancy Astor (who was her mother's sister) |
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Joyce Grenfell |
| Canadian recording artiste (singer–songwriter), real name Claire Elise Boucher, who had two
children with Elon Musk in 2020 and 2021: after announcing in 2022 that they had split up (again), she described him as "my best friend
and the love of my life" |
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Grimes |
| Mistress of Nelson (from 1798 until his death in 1805), and the mother of his two daughters (one of
whom died in infancy) |
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Emma, Lady Hamilton |
| Had a 30–year affair with playwright Lilian Hellman, ending with his death in 1961 aged 66 |
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Dashiell Hammett |
| Comedian and actress who is a fourth cousin, twice removed, of Princess Diana |
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Miranda Hart |
| "Romantically linked" with Anna Kournikova from 2001 (until at least 2017) |
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Enrique Iglesias |
| Godfather to Sean Lennon, and also to Brooklyn and Romeo Beckham |
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Elton John |
| Famous great–grandson of Ali Kemal, a Turkish journalist and politician, who was brutally
murdered bysupporters of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1922 |
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Boris Johnson |
| Actress, born Austin, Texas, 1989: daughter of Melanie Griffith, and thus granddaughter of Tippi Hedren |
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Dakota Johnson |
| Former model, and once the fastest 'Star in a Reasonably Priced Car' on Top Gear:
great–granddaughter of the first Lord Beaverbrook |
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Jodie Kidd |
| Writer who was the cousin of Stanley Baldwin (their mothers were sisters) |
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Rudyard Kipling |
| Nephew of Harry Redknapp and cousin of Jamie; son and namesake of Harry's former West Ham team–mate
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Frank Lampard |
| Three–times Oscar nominated actress, the granddaughter of a former Labour Party leader |
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Angela Lansbury |
| Step–cousin of Ian Fleming (after his parents' divorce, his mother married Fleming's
uncle) – played the villain, Scaramanga, in The Man with the Golden Gun |
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Christopher Lee |
| Composers who became father–in–law and son–in–law in 1870, when one of them
married Cosima, the illegitimate daughter of the other |
Father–in–law |
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Franz Liszt |
| Son–in–law |
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Richard Wagner |
| TV sports presenter: daughter of a Welsh football international; married a Scottish rugby union international
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Gabby Logan (née Yorath) |
| England cricketer (8 Tests and 26 ODIs, 2004–9): cousin of boxer Amir Khan |
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Sajid Mahmood |
| Rock singer who is the great–great–grandson of William Willett, inventor of daylight
saving time |
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Chris Martin (of Coldplay) |
| Actor (d. 1994) whose uncle was foster father to Sweet vocalist Bryan Connolly (d. 1997) (they are
often said to be more closely related, e.g. brothers or half–brothers) |
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Mark McManus |
| Famous footballer (Newcastle United and England) who was the first cousin of Jack & Bobby
Charlton's mother (four of her brothers also played professional football) |
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Jackie Milburn |
| Peter Mandelson's maternal grandfather: deputy Prime Minister under Atlee, 1945–51 |
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Herbert Morrison |
| Comedian who is a direct descendant of William Makepeace Thackeray |
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Al Murray |
| Clara Petacci was the mistress of (and was assassinated along with) |
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Benito Mussolini |
| British–born actress and singer, grand–daughter of the Nobel prize winning German
physicist Max Born |
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Olivia Newton–John |
| Turkish–born Greek shipping magnate: had a long–standing affair with Maria Callas, after
they met in 1957 ("after all, we were the most famous Greeks alive in the world"), and married Jacqueline Kennedy in 1968 |
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Aristotle Onassis |
| Politician – Defence Secretary 1992–5, Foreign Secretary 1995–7: second cousin once
removed of music producer Mark Ronson |
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Malcolm Rifkind |
| Mother–in–law of Guy Garvey, lead singer, songwriter and front man of Elbow (he married
her daughter Rachael Stirling in 2016) |
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Diana Rigg |
| 20th–century British mathematician, philosopher and peace campaigner, grandson of a
19th–century prime minister |
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Bertrand Russell |
| French writer (real name Amandine Dupin): her many affairs after leaving her husband of nine years
included one with Frederic Chopin, which lasted 1837–47; wrote a notable account of the winter they spent on Majorca (1838–9) |
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George Sand |
| American fashion designer and former model: Mick Jagger's partner from around 2001, until her
suicide in 2014 |
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L'Wren Scott |
| TV newsreader, great–grandson of David Lloyd George |
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Peter Snow |
| Charles Darwin's maternal grandfather, and great–great–grandfather of Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Josiah Wedgwood |
| Actress Katherine Apanowicz (best known as Nurse Rose Butchins in Angels and caterer
Magda Czajkowski in EastEnders) was the long term partner (up to his death in 2005) of |
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Richard Whiteley |
