WDYTYA - which celebrities would you like to see.

[clairec666]

The "middle 3" is 1 person!

Craig Revel Horwood is a judge on Strictly Come Dancing
The nasty one!!

And he's Australian - so not a great subject for a British series?

Jason Donovan did an episode - he's Australian, and it was one of the most interesting ones in my memory.

And there are several others who have explored family abroad. A few involving the Holocaust. Hugh Quarshie went to Ghana. Davina McCall and J K Rowling both went to France.

[BumbleB]

And there are several others who have explored family abroad. A few involving the Holocaust. Hugh Quarshie went to Ghana. Davina McCall and J K Rowling both went to France.

Oh, dear - maybe I'm being extra sensitive BUT  - isn't the whole essence of recent WDYTYA to go off on a "jolly" across the seas 

[clairec666]

There's always someone kicking up a fuss if a celebrity gets an expensive trip abroad courtesy of the BBC. To shut everyone up, the next series will entirely consist of people whose ancestors are farmers in Hertfordshire and Kent

[BumbleB]

Hurrah!!!!

[polly50]

Kylie Minogue has been on WDYTYA and she is Australian.

Craig Revel Horwood is not nasty! Don't be fooled by what you see on the television.

I didn't think Jenny Agutter had been featured but if she had it must have been so long ago I'd forgotten

[DavidG02]

The "middle 3" is 1 person!

Craig Revel Horwood is a judge on Strictly Come Dancing
The nasty one!!

And he's Australian - so not a great subject for a British series?

But doesn't that make him even more interesting? Horwood is a name that originated in the UK so at one stage his family would have emigrated.

It would be interesting, for British viewers, to see the ins and outs of how that works. Also Horwood-Bagshaw is the name of a big agricultural machinery business in Australia , so that would be interesting to see how that developed- especially if the original emigrant was a Fitter from Manchester etc

#not knowing if he has any connection to that family

[Historycat]

Like some others on here I have a connection to Bures through my great grandmother Caroline Louisa Webb and her family. The names include Holmes, Mole, Webber, Boggis (I have Golding Boggis) and Cansdell.
I have found a link to Mary Berry through her Houghton line.  (They merge 3 generations back from her baker)
I would love to see a few musicians on the show, and being something of a folkie that would be my bias so Eliza Carthy, Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol. Steve  Knightley Phil Beer and Jon Boden!  I think Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues would be good too.  Jaspar Carrott and Mike Harding??
The author Katie Hickman I would like to see, I know she is my 3rd cousin...

[Top-of-the-hill]

 To shut everyone up, the next series will entirely consist of people whose ancestors are farmers in Hertfordshire and Kent
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   I'll watch that one!

[cassie18]

Perhaps nobody will agree with me but I find some of the episodes boring when they concentrate on just one ancestor belonging to the "celeb" and only go as far back as the first world war.