Billy Corgan’s friends “convinced” he’s Bill Burr’s half-brother: “They’re like, ‘You need a DNA test!’”

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Billy Corgan‘s friends are “convinced” he’s Bill Burr‘s half-brother, and have encouraged him to get a DNA test.Corgan appeared as a guest on Howie Mandel’s Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast, and recalled his stepmother telling him as a child: “Do you know who Bill Burr is?

Bill Burr might be one of the children that your father sired in his days being a travelling musician”.The Smashing Pumpkins frontman recently went on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and was asked about the Bill Burr situation. “People I know for 20, 30 years have been asking me what I think,” he started to explain.“I said I don’t know, but I don’t think we’re related.

There’s a resemblance but I don’t think we’re related. They’re like, ‘did you get a DNA test?’, and I said there’s no reason to but they’d say ‘well I think he’s your brother.'”In January, Mandel surprised Burr by bringing the Smashing Pumpkins frontman on the show.

During the meeting with Corgan, Burr jokingly asked: “What was supposed to happen? Are we going to go play catch? We’re both in our 50s”.After the interaction, The Mandalorian actor was a guest on The Rich Eisen Show, where he reflected on the meeting. “Billy’s fine.