Bad celebrity names

I always though Grant Balfour was a funny name for a baseball pitcher.

 

Donald Trump is bad enough but check out the name of his pre-Melanie squeeze:Meet Celina Midelfart, the Glamorous Norwegian Businesswoman Donald Trump Allegedly Dumped for Melania

 

Yeah, say that to his face, and duck!

 

I like her given name, but the family name...just doesn't come across well in English. But it seems just fine in Norwegian and presumably the other Germanic languages except English:

Midelfart family - Wikipedia

I suspected it was something like that -- with the 'midel' cognate with English middle and the 'fart' possibly related to the German 'fahren'. But if I were her and planned to live in or do all my business in the English speaking world I think I might go with "Midway" as a name or "Middleton" or something alone those lines. Or possibly even better "Middlefare" as in the Wiki entry.

 

To follow up on NHL players with bad names, when I was a kid, Hartford Whalers' forward Dave Tippett was the "butt" of many jokes, since "ti-pet" in canadian french would literally translate as "Lil' fart".

Also some latin baseball player have really funny sounding names:

Rougned Odor
Brusdar Graterol
Yasiel Puig
Wander Suero
Lester Straker (he was a pitcher of course)
Jeurys Familia (Wait, whose "Familia" am I?)

 

There's bound to be some blockage there.

 

Related, but the actress Olivia Wilde's real name is Olivia Cockburn.

You can see why she changed it.

 

On a related note, Peter Marshall (the Hollywood Squares host) real name is Pierre LaCock.

 

I've seen the name "Cockburn" a few times over the years. While the spelling makes it look bad, it's actually pronounced "Coburn" somehow resulting in the "ck" being silent. Or maybe people named "Cockburn" decided they didn't want such a rude name?

 

Tuppence Middleton.

 

He gave his kids even better names, like Dweezil Zappa.

 

"Engelbert What's-His-Dink" --Archie Bunker

 

With a name like that, you'd have thought he'd be in baseball, not hockey.

 

My sister's "mean girl crush" was always to go overboard for Indy racer Bud Tinglestad.

 

Imagine spending half your lifetime as an aspiring actor, working on your public image, and trying to make your stage name synonymous with "star"...and then, signing-on to one role where the character's name is a joke...and then going through the other half of your life, tied to that character's name. "Spock", for instance, could have gone either way......like "Lurch".

 

Father and son

 

A man, not a condition.

 

I still live in Ft. Wayne. They had to rename Harry Baals drive because people kept stealing the street sign.

 

Peter O'Toole. He always said his name was redundant.

 

Don't be cilia....or don't bacilli...

 

Hal Linden's (Barney Miller) name is actually Harold Lipshitz.

 

Alison Doody (actress, A View to a Kill and Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade)

 

In a documentary Cleese mentioned that his family name was changed from "Cheese" to "Cleese" which was unique (his father, mother, and himself were the only individuals with the family name of "Cleese"). He also mentioned that "Cheese" would have been a better name for a comedian, he could have been Jack Cheese.

Another individual who almost changed her name was Annette Funicello. She was going to change it to something like Annette Turner but Walt Disney convinced her not to change it since people would remember her original name.

 

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