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'It's spooky!' Hugh Bonneville and John Bishop are stunned to discover surprising family link in ITV's DNA Journey... after becoming pals during chance meet at Covid vaccine centre

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Hugh Bonneville and John Bishop are stunned to discover a surprising family link as they appear on an ancestry television programme together.

The stars, who first became pals during lockdown after meeting each other by chance in a vaccine centre, uncover their histories in ITV's DNA Journey,

The pair discover on the show that Hugh's ancestor, John Freeman, worked a short distance from John's relative Andrew Keegan.

John, 56, had a family bakery while Andrew had a music shop on Capel Street, Dublin.

The men were both part of unions and according to the program, they both went on a March in support of workers' rights in the 1840s.