Sue Perkins shares ‘amazing’ family link with Mel Giedroyc

OHMYGOSSIP — Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc have discovered an “amazing” and “odd” family link.
The co-stars and longtime friends fronted ‘The Great British Bake Off’ together between 2010 and 2016, and now Sue has found out that they actually have ancestors from the same country.
Appearing on BBC genealogy show ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, Sue told Mel: “I know that there’s some kind of Eastern European connection and part of me’s hoping it’s Lithuania because I really like the idea that my ancestors were toshing around the same neck of the woods as yours. That would be so odd.”
Giedroyc – whose family originated in Lithuania – added: “That would be amazing.”
When Sue travelled to Germany to find out more about her great-grandmother Anna, she was told that Anna was born in a part of Russia that is now in Lithuania.
Speaking on her upcoming episode of ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, she said: “I can’t even tell you how delighted I am that it’s Lithuania because Mel who I work with and who’s family to me, she’s Lithuanian. That makes me so happy.”
At the beginning of the episode, Sue explained that she “spends a lot of time in [her] own head” and has taken up boxing to clear her mind.
She revealed: “Some people might find their spiritual dimension in a lotus pose…I find mine in an upper cut. I’m someone who spends a lot of time in my own head…what boxing does is it dulls the chitter chatter. There’s a flow and a relaxation to it, and I love it.”
During the climactic few minutes of the episode, Sue visits a Lithuanian church where her great grand mother was christened only to discover that it is now in fact a boxing gym.
She said: “No way! You are kidding me! The universe couldn’t have planned this better. If this was a story I saw written down I’d go, no, that final scene’s too pat, it doesn’t work.I mean, what a narrative arc. The Lutheran church is now a boxing gym!”
Sue’s episode of ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ airs on Thursday (26.05.22) at 9pm on BBC One.

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