Mar 26, 2008
We Are All Connected in the Great Circle of Life
Tags: Angelina Jolie, barack obama, Brad Pitt, hilary clinton, mike huckabee, related
Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society have discovered a familial link between Hollywood and Washington — Brad Pitt is related to presidential hopeful Barack Obama, while Angelina Jolie shares a lineage with former First Lady Hillary Clinton. Well, this news ought to sway a couple of votes! Us Weekly says
Pitt and Obama are ninth cousins, linked by Edwin Hickman, who died in Virginia in 1769. Clinton and Jolie, meanwhile, are ninth cousins, twice removed because they are both related to Jean Cusson who died in St. Sulpice, Quebec, in 1718.
Interestingly, the only presidential hopeful without famous celebrity cousins was Mike Huckabee, namely because all the backwoods inbreeding really thinned out his gene pool.
6 Comments, Comment or Ping
Stacey
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh snap!
Mar 26th, 2008
abby
Thanks, Stacey! I also would have accepted “BUUUUURN!”
Mar 26th, 2008
nordo
I think there you may have missed the Rumer Willis/Huckabee connection
Mar 26th, 2008
abby
They do share a tuber-esque countenance…
Mar 26th, 2008
sonya
Well I for one will be happy when the antelope are eating Hillary’s body. (there’s my Lion King reference for you)
Mar 26th, 2008
curio
why couldn’t i have fallen off a cliff and been trampled in a wildebeest stampede?
Mar 26th, 2008
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