Katherine Ryan says her episode of ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ is just like an episode of ‘Game of Thrones’.
The 36-year-old Canadian comedian admitted she "sorta hoped" her family didn’t have a long history in the country because of the "slaughter of the indigenous people" – with a national inquiry this year finding that thousands of women have been murdered to date through "state actions and inactions rooted in colonialism and colonial ideologies" – and compared her family’s past to the political and violent HBO fantasy series.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘Good Morning Britain’, she said: "I really thought we hadn’t been in Canada very long, and I sorta hoped that we hadn’t been in Canada very long because I know what went on there with the slaughter of the indigenous people and all those awful, awful things.
"But we had been there quite a long time doing fishing and preaching and Methodist touring. I can give some things away, it’s a beautiful episode to watch. It’s very ‘Game of Thrones!’ "
During filming for the BBC One series, Katherine reconnected with her childhood sweetheart Bobby Kootstra 20 years after he split up with her, and she joked their reconciled romance isn’t a surefire thing just yet.
She teased: "He’s under review. I watch ‘Love Island’ and I try to learn from Amber [Gill] – you must never go back."
However, the loved up couple are on track two decades after the TV star was left brokenhearted.
She explained: "He was my first boyfriend, my first love, and when he split with me – I was a handful when I was a teenager, as you can imagine, I don’t blame him.
"He said to me, ‘Katherine, we’re only 16, it’s not as though we’ll ever get married, you’re being ridiculous. We have to travel, we have to go to uni’, he was very logical about that. I looked at him – a girl from a small town.
"When you’re 16 and in love, you think that’s it, you don’t wanna date about, there was no Tinder then! And I was like, ‘what do you mean we’re not getting married?’ I was genuinely heartbroken, so I didn’t speak to him for 20 years. We really had a tumultuous split because of how heartbroken I was."
Katherine Ryan compares Who Do You Think You Are? episode to Game of Thrones
