BBC "Who Do You Think Your Are?" WDYTYA Series 12 (UK)

[nanny jan]

New line up announced:  Paul Hollywood, Mark Gattis, Jerry Hall, Gareth Malone, Frank Gardner,  Anita Rani,
Frances de la Tour, Sir Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid.

[rosie17]

Hope this series are a bit better than the last one 

[Clarkey500]

Should be a good series!
I would think Anita Rani will be tracing her Indian ancestors, which I do find interesting as most of my lot are British!

[StevieSteve]

More cynically, the celebrity travel junket begins...

Citing wikipedia

Jacobi, an only child, was born in Leytonstone, London, England, the son of Daisy Gertrude (née Masters), a secretary who worked in a drapery store in Leyton High Road, and Alfred George Jacobi, who ran a sweet shop and was a tobacconist in Chingford. His great-grandfather on his father's side had emigrated to England from Germany during the 19th century

What's the betting he's interested in learning about his German roots rather than traipsing round Chingford?

Hall was born in Gonzales, Texas to Marjorie (née Sheffield) and truck driver John P. Hall.[2] She is of English, Irish, Dutch and some Cherokee Native American descent

Could go anywhere or everywhere

Gatiss was born in Sedgefield, County Durham,[4] England, to Maurice Gatiss (1931-) and Winifred Gatiss (née O'Kane).

Ireland again?

Gareth Malone was born into a family of Irish descent.

And again!

Not sure if it is this one but

Gardner's father and mother were both diplomats and when he was six he moved from the UK to the Hague in the Netherlands. The excitement of travel to a foreign country left a lasting impression.

Uh-oh!

Rani was born on 25 October 1977 and raised in Bradford in Yorkshire, to a mother of Sikh origin, and Hindu father

Well, I can guess where that's going...

De la Tour was born in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, to Moyra (née Fessas) and Charles de la Tour,[1] of French descent.

Hmm...

Reid was born in Newcastle upon Tyne,[2] the daughter of Colin Norman Reid (1896-1979)[3] and Annie Eliza Weetman/Reid (1896-c.1980[4]).[5] ... when her father was posted abroad as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph: she visited her parents occasionally in India, Tehran and Beirut in the school holidays.

Uh-oh!

[Annette7]

The celebrity missing from the lineup is Jane Seymour.

Annette

[nanny jan]

Thanks Annette; I felt sure there should have been more names. 

[Rosinish]

New line up announced:  Paul Hollywood, Mark Gattis, Jerry Hall, Gareth Malone, Frank Gardner,  Anita Rani,
Frances de la Tour, Sir Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid.

Only 2 I have heard of but Paul Hollywood is a hunk & I think his ancestry will be interesting as I think it's an unusual name in Britain 

Annie

[StevieSteve]

He's from Merseyside so possibly an Ulster connection

[StevieSteve]

Jane Seymour

Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg was born 15 February 1951 in Hayes, Middlesex, England,

Now that's what I'd be interested in

the daughter of John Benjamin Frankenberg, an obstetrician, and Mieke van Trigt, a nurse.Her father was a British citizen of Jewish heritage whose family was from Poland (village of Nowe Trzepowo).Her mother was a Dutch Protestant (with family from Deventer) who was a prisoner of war during World War II, and who had lived in Indonesia.

Bah!