For the most part, life is pretty normal for Brown, but he says the comments can get frustrating. The other phone call I got was somebody calling me to pitch their shoes —they wanted me to endorse their shoes.
The name does come with its benefits. We were both working with a client — he was representing the buyer, and I was representing the seller. It was kind of funny that Chris Brown and James Brown were selling real estate together. By Samantha Grossman. Donald Trump. Matthew Broderick. Taylor Swift. One Taylor Swift is arguably the most famous person on the planet.
The other is just a regular dude. We're looking at you, Bruno Mars! Real name: Olivia Cockburn. Wilde hails from a family of writers and journalists, so it's no wonder she modeled her last name on novelist Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde is someone who I respect for so many reasons—a revolutionary, a comedian, and a profound thinker.
I had all these reasons. But what I didn't foresee is that people would think of it as a sexy adjective. So now it's got a pornographic quality I never considered. Real name: Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon.
Real name: Peter Gene Hernandez. The "That's What I Like" singer was nicknamed Bruno for the cutest reason: because he was a chubby baby. I was this chunky little baby, so my dad used to call me that as a nickname. Mars came up because a lot of girls say I'm out of this world!
Real name: Jelena Hadid. Gigi is a nickname that the model's mother gave her when Jelena became "too confusing. Real name: Katheryn Hudson Perry adopted her mother's last name to avoid being confused with actress Kate Hudson. Real name: Neta-Lee Hershlag. Portman is the actress's grandmother's maiden name.
Real name: Demi Gene Guynes some sources claim her first name was Demetria at birth, but Demi denies it. Phoenix's parents ditched the last name Bottom in and reinvented themselves as the Phoenix family.
Real name: Christopher Catesby Harington. Harington didn't know his real name was Christopher until he was 11 years old. Kit is traditionally an offshoot of Christopher, it's just not used that often. My middle name is Catesby. Real name: Julie Anne Smith Moore's given name was too popular in actors' unions, so she created a mash-up of her other family members' names. So I just slammed the Anne onto the Julie. That way I could use both of their names and not hurt anyone's feelings.
There was nothing wrong with the name Winona Laura Horowitz, of course, but the Girl, Interrupted actress decided to take on the surname Ryder anyway. The star changed his name long before making it onto the A-list, using his dad's nickname Ben and his grandfather's nickname King Clove to create his moniker. In an interview with The Advocate , she explained that she chose the name Portia after the Shakespeare character in The Merchant of Venice and de Rossi because, "I was Australian and I thought that an exotic Italian name would somehow suit me more than Amanda Rogers.
His real name is Maurice Micklewhite, but actor Michael Caine has been going by his stage name since And recently, the screen legend actually made the name change official, noting that airport security was becoming too much of a hassle with two separate names. As for the inspiration behind his name?
Well, the thespian originally wanted to be Michael Scott, but when someone of that name was already prominent in London where his career began, he changed his to "Caine" after spying a poster for the Humphrey Bogart vehicle The Caine Mutiny.
Once upon a time, this comedien was known by friends and family as Caryn Elaine Johnson. However, when she decided to try her luck in Hollywood, Caryn changed her name entirely, with Whoopi coming from her fondness for flatulence and Goldberg from a Jewish ancestor.
It was in that Tara Patrick became Carmen Electra. That year, the aspiring actress met Prince , who told her that she looked like an Electra, as she relayed to The Yo Show. Though she was hesitant to use the name at first—"It sounded kinda like a superhero type of name. Ramon Gerard Estevez decided to adopt the professional moniker of Martin Sheen when he entered the acting world and realized that he was being typecast.
As for where his appellation derives from, Estevez chose Martin after his agent and Sheen in honor of Bishop Fulton J. And in case you're wondering, this does mean that Charlie Sheen 's real last name is also Estevez, and that Martin's other son, Emilio Estevez , stuck with the name he was born with. Originally she opted for Riley, but after hearing the name out loud on the set of Malcolm in the Middle , she realized that it didn't fit her at all.
Eventually, Klein decided to take on Simmons for professional purposes. Though her real name is Jelena Hadid, this supermodel has been going by Gigi since elementary school. She explained to Vogue : "In first or second grade, there was a girl named Helena and it got confusing with the teacher who had to call out our names.
So the teacher asked my mom, 'If I needed to call Jelena a nickname, what would it be? You have to choose another name,'" the actress explained to The Hollywood Reporter. Her real name is Ella Yelich-O'Connor, but unless you're her close friend or classmate, it's more likely that you know her by her stage name, Lorde. The singer concocted the moniker at just 16 years old, explaining on 60 Minutes that she "loved the way" Lord sounded, but wanted to "add an e to feminize it.
When he had ambitions of playing for the Dallas Cowboys or becoming a professional pianist, Eric Marlon Bishop had no problem using his given name. It was only when Bishop began to perform at comedy clubs in that he took on the name Jamie Foxx after Redd Foxx , hoping to be mistaken for a woman. See, at the time, women were often called to the stage ahead of the male comics, and Foxx just didn't have the patience to wait until a later slot.
Actor Jonah Hill 's last name is actually Feldstein—but why he chooses not to use his given surname is something of a mystery. When one journalist from The Guardian asked Hill about his decision, "his palpable self-control [broke] down" and he simply replied, "Can we just not?
When registering for SAG, Margaret Hyra ditched her last name in favor of her maternal grandmother's maiden name, Ryan. Despite going by his middle name in his professional life, Page Six reports that the newly-single actor introduces himself by his given name, William, when he's flirting with women. We're guessing any woman would see right through Pitt's not-so-pseudonym.
True fans know that the world-renowned supermodel uses a pseudonym. Born Jelena pronounced Yelena , Hadid was called Gigi early on, but only by her close family.
Then in grade school, when Jelena became confusing, Gigi became Gigi full-time. Before she became an international pop star, Germanotta adopted her now-famous stage name, inspired by the Queen song "Radio Ga Ga. Musically, the "Wild Thoughts" singer has always gone by her middle name, Rihanna. But the artist told Rolling Stone that her friends and family still call her Robyn, especially when they want to get her attention.
Apparently, as a child, Destiny Hope was always grinning, so her family called her Smiley , which evolved to Miley. Then, in , the "Malibu" singer legally changed her name. Although we know her as Cardi B, true fans know that the musician was actually given a much longer name at birth: Belcalis Almanzar.
Cardi B is actually short for Bacardi, like the rum. Early in her career , then-Laura Jeanne adopted her mother's maiden name as her first name. The La La Land actress told W magazine that she had to rebrand herself when she was 16 years old because there was already an Emily Stone in Hollywood.
In an interview with Glamour , the Game of Thrones star revealed that his parents didn't tell him his real name was Christopher until he was 11 years old.
Kit is traditionally an offshoot of Christopher, it's just not used that often. My middle name is Catesby. The actress's stage name is an ode to Oscar Wilde. In , when he started pursuing a rap career, he dropped the Aubrey and started going by Drake. In an interview for Advocate , de Rossi revealed how she went from Amanda to Portia. In retrospect, I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. When you live in Australia, Europe is so far away and so fascinating, so stylish and cultured and sophisticated.
When Badu was young, she decided to change the spelling of her first name, as she believed the original spelling to be a "slave name," into "Erykah. She also picked up "Badu," as it doubled as her favorite jazz scat sound and an African name for the 10th born child of the Akan people in Ghana. Although fans have long speculated that Halsey created her stage name as an anagram of her first name, Ashley, she was actually inspired by a street in Brooklyn.
In an interview for Vevo , the singer revealed that a friend of hers lived on Halsey Street, and she spent her weekends away from her New Jersey hometown there making music.
Born : Shelton Lee. Lee's mother nicknamed the to-be-director "Spike" when he was young because he was a "tough baby.
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