Celebrity Named Family & Friends?

In My Humble Opinion
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I’ve been out of touch with my younger brother for 7 years so I used Google to look him up. Imagine my surprise when I got 99,000 hits for his name! I’m not up on the current music scene but apparently what happened is baby bro has the same name as the frontman for a band called KoRn. Who knew?

Anybody else have a famous-named family member or friend? Has this person taken advantage of their “celebrity” in any way?

Bonus question: Anybody remember the old gameshow “Name’s the Same”? Think they’ll ever bring it back?

Davmi

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My husband’s aunt is Barbara Walters. No, not THAT Barbara Walters.

3

One of the people I rent a house at the shore with for a week every summer is … Kate Hepburn.

4

I have a friend named Mike Myers.

5

Your brother is Jonathan Davis!? insert rabid KoRn smiley

No? Oh. Well, that’s still cool, though. I used to date a guy named James Hendrix. Yeah, he got really tired of the jokes after a while.

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My mom’s sister (my aunt) brother in law is named Robert Wagner.

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Well, I Googled myself one time and got zip. Nada. Nothing. Then I started trying various combinations of initials and common nick-names (Example, Will for William, etc.). Guess what I got? The author of some book about how to maintain a successful gay relationship.

I have this vision of several past girlfriends doing that and saying to themselves: “See! I KNEW there was nothing wrong with me! It was him all along.”

Ah, the wonders of the internet age…

8

My scene partner in an acting class my senior year was named Dustin Hoffman. He was worried about what was going to happen once he got out to Hollywood. :smiley:

9

My stepbrother shares a name with a well-known british music impresario from the 60’s and 70’s with a fondness (and conviction) for paedophilia. Googling him is interesting, to say the least.

And I share the same name with an optometrist in Kansas City. If that’s not famous, I don’t know what famous is.

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My former brother-in-law is named Robert Culp.

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my best friend has the same name as a local artist who is getting an album or 2 going… in our podunk towns newspaper, all the time

12

I used to have a landlady named Christine Jorgensen. This was by virtue of the fact that she absent-mindedly took her husband’s name; she got a lot of comments. But she said her maiden name was almost as bad. It was Cross.

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I share a name with several recently famous individuals one a producer, one an author. I was breifly tempted to walk into Borders and go exclaim loudly how nicely they had merchandised my book and offer to sign copies for anyone who notices.

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I forgot - I have a distant relative…I think it’s my father’s cousin? - who is married to a guy named Roy Clark.

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Yeah, that’s him. But he’s much more handsome.

“You’re the Zaphod Beeblebrox?”
“No, I’m a Zaphod Beeblebrox. Haven’t you heard? We come in six packs now!”

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I’ve met a chauffer, a gym instructor, a business manager, and most recently an oil tank removal guy, all with the wonderful name of Michael Jackson. Poor people.

I also know a Lisa Simpson who plays the saxophone.

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I work with Steve Martin and Jackie Gleason. I went to college with Kent Clark, and we called him (sorry, but it’s true) “Man Super.”

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My niece is named Elizabeth Hurley.

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I knew a Céline Dion… who was a couple years younger than the singer. People kept asking her if she was named after the staaaaar…

… even though Dion would have been 5 or 6 when my acquaintance was born…

How annoying!

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I work with a Michael Jackson as well, poor guy.

In the not famous but very cool category, my widowed Aunt Myrtle married a widower named Sam Beech. Guess where they honeymooned? :smiley: