Fredrick Everett was an explorer and Cyril Everett a well know industrialist. Surprise surprise, Rupert Everett is a renound actor. It helps in the media world to have relatives in high places.
Take a look at almost anyone famous on Wikipedia, particularly if they don't fit the beauty norms and you will find parents, grandparents or distant Bazelgett relatives, coloured in blue, have helped shoe horn youngsters onto real career paths. Look where Toni Spelling got too bearing in mind what she looks like!
If you are called Cheryl or Jade and there isn't one handy you must either by beautiful beyond reproach or so terrible on TV the world takes comfort in not being you.
