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Meryl Streep & Anna Wintour: Cousins & Devil Wears Prada

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Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour, who played a fictionalized version of Wintour in The Devil Wears Prada, recently discovered theyre sixth cousins. Streep shared the news on Jenna Bush Hagers podcast, revealing they share fifth great-grandparents from Pennsylvania. The revelation has sparked excitement, with Streeps costars reacting positively and the pair collaborating on Vogues cover. The news adds a fun twist as the films sequel hits theaters.

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Meryl Streep & Anna Wintour: Cousins & Devil Wears Prada

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It's April 30th. This is Durham News Today, powered by AI. Meryl Street and Anna Winter just dropped a wild family bombshell, their six cousins. The 76-year-old Oscar Queen spilled it on Jenna Bush Hager's open book podcast last Thursday, April 30th. Turns out, they share fifth-grade grandparents, Thomas Smith and Elizabeth Kinsey from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Streets Mom's Wilkinson Side. Ancestry.com confirmed the link first. The Devil Wears Proud of Vive hits different now. Streets played the icy-editor Miranda Priestly, inspired by a novel from WinTour's old assistant at Vogue. But Streets says she never modeled it on WinTour. Didn't even know her back then. Drew from Male Bosses instead, keeping it her own spin, her co-stars lost it when they heard. Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt could not believe it, Blunt Straight Up said, that's fantastic. She's glowing about WinTour these days, calling her fabulous S-76, running condin-nast

global empire like the New Yorker, GQ, and all. The Vogue's. They even teamed up for Vogue's cover first time WinTour posed with her. Streets joked she said no at first, then flipped it if WinTour joined. They had fun messing with the idea, and Streets quipped maybe WinTour's copying her now. With Devil Wears Proud of 2, hitting theaters Friday May 1st, this cousin twist adds perfect

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