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David Cameron has said he is related to Kim Kardashian-West, the reality TV star.

The Prime Minister said he was thirteenth cousin of the celebrity, who is married to rapper Kanye West and first became famous after starring in a leaked sex tape.

Asked by Heat magazine whether he watched the television show Keeping Up With The Kardashians, featuring Kim and her family, Mr Cameron volunteered: "No, but I'm related to them.

"Did you know I'm 13th cousins with them?"

The link is via a mutual ancestor, Sir William Spencer, born in 1555, according to genealogy website geni.com.

Among other disclosures in the interview, the Eton-educated Prime Minister claimed he once aspired to be a lorry driver.

Asked what he wanted to be when he was growing up, he said: "All sorts of things: a soldier, a lorry driver, a farmer.

"I wasn't sure til I left university, then decided I wanted to be a politician."

The Prime Minister also admitted to an inability to multi-task and a fear of rats.