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From fraudster to slave owner - the dark secrets of stars' family trees
Strictly star Ed Balls appears on BBC 's Who Do You Think You Are? only to discover his three-times great-grandad appears to have been a sex pest. The former shadow chancellor finds out that surgeon William Dunbar was accused of kissing a teenage girl.The Labour man says: “If you’re a man in your late 40s, with a load of kids, you don’t kiss 16-year-olds.”But he’s not the only famous face who has a forebear with dark secrets, as Daily Star reveals...What: Slave ownerThe Hollywood actor found himself in hot water after asking producers of the US TV show Finding Your Roots not to include details of his slave owning ancestor.He later admitted: “I didn’t want any television show about my family to include a guy who owned slaves.
