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Olympic gold medal rower Matthew Pinsent tonight learns he is descended from Jesus.

His shock discovery comes as he appears on BBC1's Who Do You Think You Are? to trace his family tree.

Pinsent, 37, first learns he is related to Catherine Howard, one of Henry VIII's beheaded wives.

Determined to trace his ancestors further back he finds a link to English king Edward the First and William the Conqueror nearly 1,000 years ago.

Staff at the College of Arms in London then reveal that every legitimate king must have Jesus in his ancestry.

Matthew laughs: "Well that's pretty much as far back as you can isn't it. I really feel I've something to tell my parents now."


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