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First Dates’ Fred Sirieix to expose shock family history on Who Do You Think You Are?
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HE’S the Frenchman who has built a career on this side of the Channel, now it seems Fred Sirieix may have family history over here, too.
I can reveal the First Dates maitre d and former I’m A Celebrity campmate has signed up for the next series of BBC One genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are?
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Expected to air later this year, the series has something of a stellar line-up as it will also feature former BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show host Zoe Ball.
A TV insider said: “Fred probably isn’t top billing on the series, but he’ll certainly have one of the more interesting family backgrounds.
“Though he’s famous for being French, his family history is likely to throw up quite a few surprises as he goes on his genealogy journey.
“He recently discovered he has some surprising ancestry, so the programme might take him in that direction — but producers are keeping everything under wraps.”
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Fred revealed that a DNA test suggests he probably has a lot of ancestry in the British Isles.
He told BBC Radio Wales: “It so happens that I am six per cent Welsh, and a little bit Irish and a little bit English as well.
“But it’s not a surprise because where I’m from in Limoges used to be a Celt settlement maybe 3,000 years ago.
“The Celts went from Wales and Ireland to Brittany and they went to Limoges, which is why according to my DNA I am 78 per cent French only.”
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Fred is launching his Tour De Fred show on ITV next week.
It will see him cycle around Northern Ireland sampling the local cuisine and history.
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He has also been busy tying the knot with his partner of seven years, known as Fruitcake, who he has previously appeared with on Channel 4’s Celebrity Gogglebox.
They married in Jamaica, with the couple sharing pictures from their special day on Instagram recently.
I wonder if she realises she’s married a man who’s not quite as French as she thought . . .
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