I feel like such a dork for admitting this out in the open and everything, but I really like that show Who Do You Think You Are? It’s an American version of a show that I believe started in Ireland…? Anyway, Lisa Kudrow executive produces it and she brings some really fascinating people in, and they spend an hour’s show researching their ancestry through public records, databases, old newspapers, whatever (and whoever) they can get their hands on. Earlier this week, I mentioned in passing that I had seen Kim Cattrall’s and it was crazy – her grandfather was a bigamist! But yeah, I feel like a dork. When I’m home on a Friday night (too often), I watch it while folding my laundry. It’s like my thing now.

So tonight’s episode should be a doozy! DAME GWYNETH is the celebrity! Oh, you know it’s going to be posh and brilliant, and you know Gwyneth is descended from, like, the best people ever. There are no peasants in her background! No “laborers” or “janitors”. Gwyneth comes from a long line of Important People. According to the previews:

Gwyneth Paltrow has discovered a fascinating family fact while tracing her roots for hit U.S. TV show Who Do You Think You Are? – her great great great grandfather was a beloved Jewish holy man.

The actress tracked her ancestors back to Barbados while taping the show, which airs in America on Friday night (01Apr11) – but the biggest surprise came when she returned to New York and discovered her great great great grandfather was a “master of Kabbalah” – the mystic Jewish offshoot Paltrow studies today.

Documents show he was “a miracle worker” who once saved his community from a raging fire through his faith.

She said, “This is all kinda blowing my mind.”

[From Contact Music]

Don’t you get it? Gwyneth is so wonderful that even her ancestors are better than your ancestors. God, I can’t wait! I bet she cries when she realizes just how special and elite her relatives were. Here’s the preview:

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

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