celebrity names: did you know these?

[MrsPotatohead]

www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/slideshow/Celebrity-name-changes-20008.php

it's so weird to think of them with their real names.  I'm also really curious how that process happens... like, when they first start out does someone say "yeah, no. that name is horrible. here is an EPIC name for you."  I will say for several of them it made a lot of sense to change it though

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Or do you think they got to pick?

I actually know 2 people who legally changed their first names.

[madDawg228]

Carlos Norris definitely does not seem as threatening or badass.

[fiddles]

Some of them changed their names so they wouldn't be associated with their families. I remember long ago reading something about Nicholas Cage. He wanted to achieve success on his own without the Coppola name.

[MrsPotatohead]

Apr 22, 2015 15:09:25 GMT -5 fiddles said:

Some of them changed their names so they wouldn't be associated with their families. I remember long ago reading something about Nicholas Cage. He wanted to achieve success on his own without the Coppola name.

oh interesting, good point.

I was mostly thinking of the ones where I was like "yeah... that's a horrible name" lol

[MrsPotatohead]

like Olivia Wilde, aka Olivia Cockburn...

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Apr 22, 2015 16:26:23 GMT -5 MrsPotatohead said:

like Olivia Wilde, aka Olivia Cockburn...

I would have liked it better if she kept her real name and tacked on her fake one.

Olivia wilde-cockburn

Lolololol

[toratoratori]

Some of these are not even stage names. It's literally just people using anything BUT their full legal name. Kesha's real name is still Kesha. There are just two other names after it. BIG WHOOP, HOLLYWOOD.

[toratoratori]

PS. Reginald Dwight. No matter how you slice it, Elton John gon have two first names.

[MrsPotatohead]

Apr 22, 2015 17:09:49 GMT -5 toratoratori said:

Some of these are not even stage names. It's literally just people using anything BUT their full legal name. Kesha's real name is still Kesha. There are just two other names after it. BIG WHOOP, HOLLYWOOD.

true, BUT was no one else surprised that her real name is Kesha?!  lol  I didn't know that was a name...

[toratoratori]

Apr 22, 2015 17:16:31 GMT -5 MrsPotatohead said:

Apr 22, 2015 17:09:49 GMT -5 toratoratori said:

Some of these are not even stage names. It's literally just people using anything BUT their full legal name. Kesha's real name is still Kesha. There are just two other names after it. BIG WHOOP, HOLLYWOOD.

true, BUT was no one else surprised that her real name is Kesha?!  lol  I didn't know that was a name...

Am I the only one who knew that was her real name?

[MrsPotatohead]

Apr 22, 2015 18:37:23 GMT -5 toratoratori said:

Apr 22, 2015 17:16:31 GMT -5 MrsPotatohead said:

true, BUT was no one else surprised that her real name is Kesha?!  lol  I didn't know that was a name...

Am I the only one who knew that was her real name?

I'm terrible with celebrity stuff so I didn't know pretty much any of these

[theoriginalbean]

Apr 22, 2015 18:37:23 GMT -5 toratoratori said:

Apr 22, 2015 17:16:31 GMT -5 MrsPotatohead said:

true, BUT was no one else surprised that her real name is Kesha?!  lol  I didn't know that was a name...

Am I the only one who knew that was her real name?

I knew, but I couldn't tell you WHY I knew.