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Pamela Adlon won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for playing Bobby Hill, Chane Wasonasong and Clark Peters in King of the Hill: Bobby Goes Nuts.

Wow, what a shock! I was so close to my dad, a revelation like that would have killed me!

I found out the same thing in my late 50's. Tsk, tsk, human beings being so... human. LOL!

@@Try.saving.time.in.a.bottle 😯 So sorry! It's hard to carry knowledge like that with you. I hope you don't find it too troubling.

I am 68 and was adopted in 1954. Through DNA I have discovered 2 half sisters and 8 half brothers. My Dad was a naughty boy. He had all of us with 4 different women all the time being married to the mother of 6 of my siblings. We are aged from 72 to 48 years old. My youngest brother was very upset when he discovered his mom had been lying to him about who his father was for his entire life. This can all get really emotional. One of my sisters won’t speak to me because she is angry that our Dad disrespected her mother by impregnating my mom.

@@miketierney7451 yikes, that’s a whole can of DNA worms that got opened. Good luck!

She was quite beautiful in her youth, as well

He may not have known that the girl was not his.

@@LAVirgo67 Which makes the mother one of even lesser character. Knowing what scandal this would have placed on the children he did what most men do and settled for the lot he was given.

@Nicky L I'm calling for calm, poor character is difficult to determine while one is in the seas of love. In this case, with limited facts, we only know a child was produced outside of the marriage covenant. It's most likely a running theme within this adulterous woman's life. It was most likely a mental condition or brought on by a feeling of control.

She stated that she never felt connected to him and he never spoke to her. So much for stepping up… he clearly resented raising someone elses child.

@@11UncleBooker22 For heaven's sake "the mother ... of even lesser character" BS. It takes two, John. Do you have any idea how COMMON this is? Humans are human. The bad part is the judgement and shame that come from people like you.

For all you know he could of been infertile and this could of been their solution, no one knows always making assumptions

Her father is Jewish that’s probably why

That's incredible, Mary! Thank you so much for taking the time to share with us! We're glad to hear that they were all able to get connected to one another! We wish you all the best going into this holiday season together!

Cray cray But good resEARCh

🙏🏾❤👏🏾💯😁 you've got this love on you!

But the good part is that you ARE getting up each day. Just do what you can with what you’ve got ❣️

Watch Pam's show, there's a great fictionalized character based on her mom.

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Some people are just naturally upbeat and don't let things get them. She sounded like a typical Brit in her response. One should not expect everyone to respond, act the same way they would in a given situation. If I'd reacted or acted like people thought I should in some situations I've been in I'd probably be dead today.🤷🏼‍♂️

Pamela Adlon won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for playing Bobby Hill, Chane Wasonasong and Clark Peters in King of the Hill: Bobby Goes Nuts.

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No, Kevin Pollak

I did the DNA on my parents and they are 7 Th to 8Th cousins and they do share common ancestors down to that generation colonial times . The country wasn’t really that big then. I told my mom about it and she said as long as their connection is that distant she isn’t worried.

I've never cheated on my spouse... never wanted to. I may be an oddity. 😉

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@@AncestryUS Not really a brick wall, but a few ancestors with the same name that smallpox took out in quick succession, which made estate settlement difficult to track if everyone suffers the same fate! Amazing we had any survivors!

Good question. It wasn't what they were exploring in the episode but im sure it's been brought up in private.

They said in the full episode that she's the product of an affair... so no.

@@ntl5983 since whe can't two children be products of affairs?

@@saraschneider6781 lol... that's not an affair then... that's a relationship. She would've known who her father was.

@@ntl5983 uh... since when? And who says? The terms are not mutually exclusive.

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Pamela Adlon won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for playing Bobby Hill, Chane Wasonasong and Clark Peters in King of the Hill: Bobby Goes Nuts.

We're so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much for sharing. 🙂

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@MeMe DaVinci Yes. Marina Leece's mother, in Birkenhead England, became pregnant to Joseph Walthew. They don't tell us if he was married at the time. And Joseph's daughter Lucy Walthew was born two years later. A pregnancy was not an easy thing to hide in those days. It appears that not only Joseph, but his parents Benjamin and Rose Walthew, knew about baby Marina. And they maintained contact over time. As Marina describes her Mother taking all her kids to visit the Walthews - her unbeknownst paternal grandparents. It would be interesting to know the birth order of Marina and her four siblings. If she was first, perhaps Leonard Leece - registered as Father on her birth certificate - married an already pregnant woman. Not unheard of. Or, there was some kind of separation or breakdown in their marital relationship when Marina's mother commenced an affair. All up, they seem a terrific family. And Joseph Walthew is part of their story.

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A rather prominent actress!

I had to look up who she was, it seems she's done more voice overs for popular animated series. She's also been in some movies and shows as one of those actors that you go "oh so that's who she was"

She wrote, directed, starred in series "Better Things," acted in "Louie," and did voice of Bobbie in "King of the Hill."

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@@AncestryUS you're welcome