A Wild Report Claims Matthew Perry & Courteney Cox Are Related And Could It *Be* Any Grosser?

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Friends stars and former on-screen lovers Matthew Perry and Courtney Cox are reportedly distant cousins and folks, can we please save all this tea for the reunion?

According to researchers at the DNA ancestry website MyHeritage, per CNN, Perry and Cox, who famously played married couple Chandler and Monica on the hit ‘90’s sitcom, are loosely related. Like, 11th-degree cousins. Ew.

As the report goes, William Osbern Haskell III (what a name) and Ellen Haskell were a married couple that lived in England in the 17th century. In 1635, Ellen immigrated to America with her two sons, William and Roger.

Courteney Cox’s mother, Courteney Copeland, is a distant ancestor of Roger’s while Matthew Perry’s father, John Bennet Perry, is the off-off-off-offspring of William.

“We went into this line very deeply, we checked every name. We found a lot of records that support it, and we have confidence that they are related,” Roi Mandel, the head of research at MyHeritage told CNN.

“This is not such a surprise. It makes sense that when you go so many generations back, the chances of people being connected are higher.”

Truly, this story is huge if true. For starters, it means that the better couple of Friends (I said what I said) might actually be the worst behind the scenes.

Either way, I’m taking this report with a grain of salt unless it’s addressed at the Friends: The Reunion special tonight, since it also claims the pair are loosely related to Lady Gaga and that’s just not fair. In other news, I’m officially coming out as the distant cousin of Nikki Webster and Ned Kelly.

You can catch Friends: The Reunion from 5PM tonight on Binge.

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