‘Friends’ Stars On-Screen Lovers Matthew Perry Courteney Cox Are Cousins, Genealogists Say
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hollywoodlife.comMatthew Perry, 51, and Courteney Cox, 56, played lovable Friends couple Chandler Bing and Monica Gellar for a decade on television.
After years of kissing scenes, however, an ancestry expert says the actors are actually distant cousins. To be more specific, the pair are 11th cousins, according to the genealogy team at MyHeritage via CNN.
The connections are made through Courteney’s mom Courteney Copeland, and Matthew’s dad, John Bennett Perry.
Here’s the breakdown: both Matthew — who hails from Ottawa, Canada — and Courteney — who is a native of Birmingham, Alabama — share distance relatives William Osbern Haskell III and Ellen Haskell.
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