Matthew Perry and Courteney Cox may have had a beautiful romance on "Friends," but in real life, they're actually distant cousins.
Perry and Cox are 11th cousins based on info from the website MyHeritage and its ancestry experts. The revelation may come as a shock to fans who watched them lip-lock on the show for years.
Perry and Cox share distant relatives William Osbern Haskell III and his wife Ellen Haskell - the couple lived in England around 500 years ago, according to CNN.
One son of the couple, Roger, is directly related to Cox while another son, William, has a link to Perry.
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Their roles as Chandler Bing and Monica Geller on the hit TV sitcom "Friends" had fans clamoring for a romance like theirs. But now, the romance seems a little far-fetched now that fans know the two are somewhat related in real life.
"We went into this line very deeply, we checked every name. We found a lot of records that support it, and we have confidence that they are related," Roi Mandel, head of research at MyHeritage, told CNN.
And while the revelation may come as a shock, it's not actually so crazy that the two are linked in their ancestry.
"This is not such a surprise. It makes sense that when you go so many generations back, the chances of people being connected are higher," Mandel added.
MyHeritage uses a multitude of resources including billions of historical records to come to their conclusions about people's ancestry. As it turns out, both actors are also distantly linked to Lady Gaga.
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