A person’s name is the softest sound in their native language, but it turns out these stars rarely hear theirs.
While some celebrities like Emma Pierre And Warren Beatty voluntarily go through this slightly have changed their name professionally, other stars have picked up on the mispronunciation so seamlessly that you might not even know it’s incorrect.
“My name is not actually pronounced Denzel“, Denzel Washington clarified during a September appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “My name is pronounced HeZel. »
However, mispronunciation is something The equalizer the star really encourages, since it started with her mother Lennis Washingtonwho used this unique pronunciation to distinguish between himself and his father, Denzel Washington Sr.
“My mother said:”HeZel? and we would both introduce ourselves,” he recalled. “So she said, ‘From now on, you’re Denzel.’ This is how we made it pronounce Denzel.”
In the same way, Jason Kelce And Travis Kelce using an incorrect version of their last name – “Kel-see” – taken from their father Ed Kelce. After all, the pThe correct last name is actually “Kels”.
