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IN A new feature, we show how seemingly unrelated figures in the news just might be connected to each other after all…

MO FARAH

The Olympic hero revealed last week he had been illegally trafficked to the UK as a child. He went on to be an inspiration for millions, including the robot engineers who named their creation Mobot after his victory celebration. The automaton won the 2012 RoboWorld

Cup, ahead of Usain Volt. Other celebrities to have inspired robots include…

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

… with superfan Ricky Ma making a creepily accurate £40,000 version of the actress in his Hong Kong flat. Katy Perry wrote her hit I Kissed A Girl after becoming enamoured of Johansson’s lips, while Looney Toons created a glamorous redhead, Starlett Johanson, for their cartoons. Also inspiring Warner Bros was…

CLARK GABLE

… with Bugs Bunny’s mannerisms based on a scene in his 1934 film It Happened One Night, in which he leans against a fence and eats carrots rapidly while smoothtalking his leading lady.

Gable also provided the first name of Superman’s alter ego, Clark Kent. But there was a mistake on the actor’s birth certificate and he was originally listed as female. Other stars with mistakes on that vital document include…

DANNY DYER

…whose dad wrote ‘Danial’ on the paperwork. The EastEnders guvnor is famously related to royalty, with the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? finding he is Edward III’s 22-times greatgrandson. Other A-listers have distant royal ancestors, such as Beyoncé, Celine Dion and…

MADONNA

… the ninth cousin once removed of the Duchess of Cornwall. The pop icon’s never been afraid of controversy, still posing provocatively in her 60s. Less glamorously, her financial affairs came into question in 2017 when her investment in the Bermuda tax haven was exposed in the leaked Paradise Papers, which also revealed…

GARY LINEKER

… bought a £2.2million Barbados home via offshore companies – though he said he paid the correct UK tax. He’s in the news again, having topped the list of BBC high earners, pocketing

£1.35 million last year.