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Changing their names (August 2004)

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TVDragon
Well I reckon it's a Welsh thing, being all traditional and backwards -- they're all at it. Tara Eugene, Ruth Dodsworth, Jayne Davies ages ago. I'd have thought keeping your name would make more sense, since that's the name you've built your career on.

And on top of that, the three I've mentioned seem to have made their names worse too.
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Steve D
TVDragon posted:
Tara Eugene, Ruth Dodsworth, Jayne Davies ages ago. I'd have thought keeping your name would make more sense, since that's the name you've built your career on.


In Tara's case I have a feeling it was divorce that resulted in the name change, not marriage - in which case you can understand it, and Jayne has built her career on her current name.
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A former member
One that I realised just this morning (how's that for timing, eh?)
If Holly Willoughby (M.O.M.) married Dominic Wood (Dick & Dom In da Bungalow) she'd be...
Holly Wood! Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy
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Westy2
Spencer For Hire posted:
swanseas-sound posted:
annoyingly i remember that it was chaned to carol mathias!!!!!


That's it!!! I can sleep soundly now. Thanks s-s! Very Happy

She obviously learnt her lesson when she married for the second time tho'!


I don't remember that at all.

I thought she was always Vorderman, whoever she was married to !
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A former member
I'm sure Trevor McDonalds name isn't actually his original and/or real name. Anyone confirm this?
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Steve in Pudsey
swanseas-sound posted:
yet another welsh presenter who has changed their name! and annoyingly i remember that it was chaned to carol mathias!!!!!


Carol Mather I think you mean Wink
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JasonB
I watched a bit of price-drop.tv earlier and Cheryl Baker was on and on the yellow ticker where it shows you the people who are already in the price-drop the name "Rita" had came along and Cheryl said that she changed her name from "Rita whoever" to "Cheryl Baker".

That confused me a bit because i didnt know if she was being serious or if she was joking. Can anyone fill me in?
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Ben Founding member
FriendsFanatic posted:
I watched a bit of price-drop.tv earlier and Cheryl Baker was on and on the yellow ticker where it shows you the people who are already in the price-drop the name "Rita" had came along and Cheryl said that she changed her name from "Rita whoever" to "Cheryl Baker".

That confused me a bit because i didnt know if she was being serious or if she was joking. Can anyone fill me in?


She's always going on about Rita from Sevenoaks, because if you ever see that there it's actually her buying stuff. Alot of people use stage names or change there names, hers used to be Rita Crudgington I think.
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MalcyB
If Carol Vorderman changed her name to her current marriage she would now be Carol King. Perhaps she doesn't want to be mixed up with a successful 70's singer / songwriter!
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broadband cowboy
Steve in Pudsey posted:
swanseas-sound posted:
yet another welsh presenter who has changed their name! and annoyingly i remember that it was chaned to carol mathias!!!!!


Carol Mather I think you mean Wink


It's Carol Moither in my book , though I wouldn't kick her out of bed. Smile
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Si-Co
broadband cowboy posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
swanseas-sound posted:
yet another welsh presenter who has changed their name! and annoyingly i remember that it was chaned to carol mathias!!!!!


Carol Mather I think you mean Wink


It's Carol Moither in my book , though I wouldn't kick her out of bed. Smile


Definitely Mather, though 'twice-nightly' used to pronounce it 'Mather' (as in 'Mathematics' - quite apt), rather than 'May-ther'.

Ooh, Steve Murray in Hollyoaks.. must tune in! Laughing
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jaffa
Si-Co posted:
broadband cowboy posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
swanseas-sound posted:
yet another welsh presenter who has changed their name! and annoyingly i remember that it was chaned to carol mathias!!!!!


Carol Mather I think you mean Wink


It's Carol Moither in my book , though I wouldn't kick her out of bed. Smile


Definitely Mather, though 'twice-nightly' used to pronounce it 'Mather' (as in 'Mathematics' - quite apt), rather than 'May-ther'.

Ooh, Steve Murray in Hollyoaks.. must tune in! Laughing


Are you sure it wasn't Carol Malia that she changed it to ! YAY ! YAY ! YAY ! Razz Cool Very Happy

BTW, I think I read somewhere last week that Trevor McDonald was born George McDonald.

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