Kevin Bacon and his wife Kyra Sedgwick found out that they are related, but not related by blood. Not good.
The popular game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” is based on the idea that almost everyone in the movie business can be connected to Bacon through their movie roles in six steps or less. The 65-year-old star is famous for being connected to this game.
I think it was still a big surprise for him to find out that his wife of 35 years is actually his cousin, even with that in mind.
But that’s exactly what happened when he and Sedgwick were on Finding Your Roots in 2013. Finding Your Roots is an American ancestry show like Who Do You Think You Are?
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the host of the show, showed Sedgwick a picture of her ninth cousin once removed and said, “His name is Kevin Bacon.”
Sedgwick replied, “See.” She had already said she was worried that the show would show that they were related. I knew! I knew! I knew! I knew! I already knew!”
She did say, “As long as we’re not first cousins, it’s okay,” though.
In another part of the show, Bacon is told, “You and Brad Pitt are 13th cousins twice removed.”
“Your ancestor was named Anthony Woolhouse, and so was President Obama. You’re 12th cousins three times removed.
“Don’t lie. The actor replied, “I knew I wasn’t getting enough respect.”
Bacon has said in the past that he didn’t like the idea of the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon because he thought it was a joke about him.
Last year, on the On With Mario Lopez podcast, he said, “I was horrified!” They made fun of me because I thought it was a joke. I told myself, “Let’s be honest, they’re just making fun of me!”
Speaking about how he first learned about the game, he said, “People would come up to me and say, ‘My cousin made a game about you,’ or ‘I’m so drunk, I played your game last night.'” I had no idea what they were talking about, so I told them, “I think you have the wrong guy.”
Bacon also said that he thought the game would be dead by now, but a lot of people still play it.
He said, “It’s hard to believe, but we didn’t have the same—if something went viral, we didn’t really use that word.”
It wasn’t an idea—it was a virus! But it kept spreading. I really thought it would go away, but it didn’t!”
