Joe Manganiello is “zero percent genetically related” to any Manganiello on the planet, PBS show finds
The actor Joe Manganiello was surprised by what genetic researchers were able to uncover in an episode ofincluding the revelation that the man he believed to be his paternal grandfather was actually someone else entirely. “My grandfather was a Black man of mixed race,” Manganiello said, the Associated Press reported Thursday. “That was fascinating.
” Digging deep into thestar’s ancestry, the PBS show’s experts were able to uncover that his fifth great-grandfather was a freed slave, with the distant relative signing up with the Revolutionary-era Continental Army to fight against the British in a non-segregated unit. When the host ofHenry Louis Gates Jr.
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