Whoopi Goldberg has expressed shock on the discovery former NFL participant, Tony Gonzalez, is a long-lost cousin. The revelation got here from historian and Discovering Your Roots host Henry Louis Gates Jr., who appeared on The View.
The information left Goldberg, 68, speechless, and this revelation got here after Goldberg had beforehand appeared in an earlier season of Gates Jr.’s collection.
“On the primary collection, I did [a number of Black celebrities including] Whoopi and we didn’t have the subtle checks that we now use for DNA at the moment,” Gates Jr., 73, defined. “You all find out about DNA cousins? You’ve a DNA cousin, expensive … Tony Gonzalez is your DNA cousin.”
Gonzalez, 47, is a former NFL participant and considered one of many biggest tight ends of all time. After listening to that the NFL Corridor of Famer was her distant relative, Goldberg couldn’t consider the information. “That’s my cousin?!” she requested.
Her cohosts expressed their ideas on the matter, with Sunny Hostin remarking that the newfound cousin is “smokin’,” and Pleasure Behar playfully urged they “might be kissing cousins.”
On the conclusion of the episode, Goldberg invited Gonzalez, her newly found well-known cousin, to go to and seem on an episode of The View.
Gates Jr., the host of Discovering Your Roots, has beforehand stunned celebrities with their household historical past, akin to revealing to Edward Norton in January 2023 that Pocahontas is his twelfth great-grandmother.
“I perceive that was household lore [you heard growing up],” Gates Jr. defined to the actor throughout a season 9 episode of Discovering Your Roots. “Nicely, it’s completely true.”
Gates Jr. additional revealed that Norton’s household lineage is traced again to John Rolfe, an English settler who married Pocahontas. Norton expressed awe on the historic connection, stating that it makes him notice how small part of your entire human story he represents.
“That is about way back to you’ll be able to go until you’re a Viking,” Norton exclaimed. “Makes you notice what a small piece of the entire human story you’re.”
