Who Do You Think You Are? line up announced

Who Do You Think You Are? line up announced

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By Pippa Shawley,
Tuesday, 23rd June 2015
Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss

Familiar faces from the worlds of film, fashion, cooking and comedy will explore their families' pasts in the new series of Who Do You Think You Are? later this summer.

The twelfth series of the genealogy programme will touch on almost a thousand years of history from the Tower of London to the Punjab in India, via the Wild West of the US.

Actor Sir Derek Jacobi uncovers a background of contrast, from humble roots in Walthamstow to the excesses of Louis XIV's royal court in France, while model Jerry Hall traces her pioneering ancestors from the cotton mills of Oldham to the plains of Texas.

Great British Bake Off presenter Paul Hollywood, choirmaster Gareth Malone, Countryfile presenter Anita Rani and news reporter Frank Gardner will also delve into their family history alongside actors Anne Reid, Jane Seymour, Frances de la Tour and Mark Gatiss.

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Familiar faces from the worlds of film, fashion, cooking and comedy will explore their families' pasts in the new series of Who Do You Think You Are? later this summer.