THE LATEST REVELATION ROCKING THE INTERNET IS JAMIE FOXX’S *ACTUAL* NAME

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The key moment where you cast aside the chains of childhood and become a real adult is when you accept the fact that many celebrities have made up names that they invented to seem cooler for casting agents. It is a dark realisation, but one that everyone has to accept.

Yes, it’s hard to concede that nobody is actually ever born with the name Tom Cruise – instead being born as Thomas Mapother – but it is what it is.
Now, people are coming to the shocking, shocking realisation that nobody is born with the name Jamie Foxx either. That collision of two x’s is not something that naturally transpires. C’mon. Yet Twitter is still going absolutely wild over the fact that his name is the substantially less interesting Eric Marlon Bishop.
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Of course, this isn’t news at all. In fact, Foxx told the (fairly great) story of why he changed his name in an interview with David Letterman back in 2014:
 
I used to do stand-up in a club in LA and I went up and I had a great set and when I had a great set I couldn’t get back up for six weeks because comedians ran the list.
 
So I go to another place … and I noticed that like 1000 guys show up and only three girls, but the three girls would always get a spot. So I went to the list and wrote down a unisex name … Jamie Foxx. And I’m the first guy called. He’d go, ‘Jamie Foxx, is she here?’ I said, ‘No brother, that’s me’.
The people who aren’t going insane about this are less charitable towards those who are.