Whoopi Goldberg finally met her new cousin Tony Gonzalez and they wasted no time begging each other for favors!
Earlier this month, Searching for your rootsHenry Louis Gates broke the news to Goldberg that she and the former NFL star were “distant cousins,” with the two sharing DNA from Gonzalez’s mom’s father’s side. And on Monday in the episode ViewGoldberg (68) and Gonzalez (47) met for the first time!
“Cousin Whoopi! Cousin Whoopi,” Gonzalez called her, while Goldberg told the crowd, “That’s my blood right there.”
The co-hosts were quick to joke about the relationship, with Sara Haines jokingly saying, “Now I want to find my roots…” and Ana Navarro teasing, “I think this is probably the only cousin that could show up that doesn’t work want to be in the will!”
But Gonzalez was not above that. “I’ll be in the will. I’ll take it!” he said, asking Goldberg, “Can I borrow $5?”
“Hey listen, for you, anything,” the EGOT winner replied.
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But the demands did not stop there. Later in the segment, Goldberg talked to the former Kansas City Chiefs tight end about the upcoming Super Bowl to see if he could help her get a ticket.
“Julia Roberts was here, maybe a few weeks ago, and we were talking about the Super Bowl ’cause she wants to go. She says she’s never been,” Goldberg recalled, before hinting to Gonzalez, “And I said, ‘Well , maybe I could help you get in…’ ”
“I just want to say that everything is great for Taylor Swift, but Julia Roberts is hot too!” Goldberg continued. “And I was wondering, because it’s in Vegas and I guess you might be going, you might be hanging, if you decide you need a few people to go with you, maybe Julia and I would go with you.”
Gonzalez was game. “I have your cousin. I have your cousin,” he said. “Come with me as a guest, bring Julia too. The more, the better.”
Tony Gonzalez during his time with the Chiefs. Getty Images / Jamie Squire
Elsewhere during his trip to ViewGonzalez — who promoted his role on Amazon Prime Video UnderDoggs – he opened up about his reaction to learning that Goldberg is his cousin.
“Oh my God. It was unbelievable,” Gonzalez recalled. “He does it at the end, like, ‘Every time on the show, we have somebody who’s related to other people. Do you want to see who that is? Turn the page.’ And I turned the page, and I saw it was you, and I said, ‘What the hell? Whoopi Goldberg? I love Whoopi, that’s so cool!’ ”
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He explained that he and Goldberg were related through George Betts, a slave on his grandfather’s side who became one of only 5% of slaves who bought property after slavery was abolished.
“This guy was tough,” Gonzalez said. “And it’s just amazing. He was elected a militia major to protect black people, because a lot of white people weren’t happy that slavery ended… This is just a strong man. This is your kindred that I’m related to. A strong, stubborn person. ”
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Whoopi Goldberg and Tony Gonzalez.
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Gonzalez also told Goldberg that she wasn’t the only relative he learned he had.
The sports commentator recalled Gates telling him during their episode Searching for your roots that he was a direct relative of the prolific playwright William Shakespeare.
“At the end of that, [Gates] said, ‘Turn the page, you’re related to someone who is one of the most famous people ever in the world.’ I asked myself, ‘Who the hell could that be?’ So I turned the page and it wasn’t a photograph, it was a picture. And I say: ‘Who is this guy, I don’t recognize him’. And he’s like, That’s William Shakespeare,'” Gonzalez said. “And he said, ‘Not only are you not a distant relative, you’re a direct relative.’ ”
“That was pretty crazy,” he said. “The whole thing is crazy.”
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View airs weekdays (11 a.m. ET) on ABC.
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