https://realnameof.com/blog/Celebrity news, gossip and history behind real names.en-usMon, 02 Nov 2026 16:45:00 +0000https://realnameof.com/blog/news/cher-real-name-michael-douglas-moonstruck-oscar-glenn-close/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/cher-real-name-michael-douglas-moonstruck-oscar-glenn-close/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:30:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipMichael Douglas said Glenn Close should have won Cher's 1988 Oscar. Cher's rep says "Cher adores Michael Douglas." Her real name? It's a surprising story.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/joey-belladonna-real-name-national-anthem-monday-night-football/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/joey-belladonna-real-name-national-anthem-monday-night-football/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipAnthrax singer Joey Belladonna sang the anthem before Bears vs. Seahawks on Monday Night Football. His real name is Joseph Bellardini. Here's the story.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/grok-bot-name-meaning-origin/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/grok-bot-name-meaning-origin/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 21:30:00 +0000TechGrok comes from Heinlein's 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Here's the story behind the name, the company behind Grok Bot, and how people use it.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/celebrity-news-this-week-october-26-2026/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/celebrity-news-this-week-october-26-2026/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:50:00 +0000NewsThis week's celebrity news: Barbara Palvin's postpartum Victoria's Secret return, Selena Gomez on vaping, Christina Applegate's MS misdiagnosis, Kim Kardashian at 46 in Rome and more.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/liev-schreiber-nocturne-real-name-lars-kepler/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/liev-schreiber-nocturne-real-name-lars-kepler/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:45:00 +0000NewsLiev Schreiber, born Isaac Liev Schreiber, apologized for his 'Nocturne' red carpet tirade. What happened, and who 'Lars Kepler,' the author behind the show, really is.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/today-show-halloween-2026-costumes-real-names/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/today-show-halloween-2026-costumes-real-names/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:30:00 +0000NewsTODAY's 2026 Halloween honored 100 years of NBC. See who dressed as Snoop Dogg, Johnny Carson and Jeannie, plus the real names behind those famous stars.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/learjet-crash-palm-beach-mar-a-lago-2026/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/learjet-crash-palm-beach-mar-a-lago-2026/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0000NewsA Learjet 60 crashed in Greenacres, Palm Beach County, on Nov. 1, 2026, killing all nine aboard, about 7 miles from Mar-a-Lago. Confirmed facts and open questions.https://realnameof.com/blog/history/son-of-sam-real-name-david-berkowitz/https://realnameof.com/blog/history/son-of-sam-real-name-david-berkowitz/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 06:05:00 +0000HistoryThe Son of Sam's real name is David Berkowitz. Learn the facts of the 1976–77 case and journalist Maury Terry's disputed theory that he did not act alone.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/tracy-morgan-real-name-nyc-marathon-grand-marshal/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/tracy-morgan-real-name-nyc-marathon-grand-marshal/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipTracy Morgan, 2026 NYC Marathon Grand Marshal, was born Tracy Jamal Morgan. His real name, his 30 Rock alter ego Tracy Jordan, and why he's trending today.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/gta-soundtracks-every-game/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/gta-soundtracks-every-game/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipEvery Grand Theft Auto soundtrack from GTA 1 (1997) to GTA 6 (2026): radio stations, standout songs, celebrity DJs and their real names, plus the confirmed GTA VI stations.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/nightcap-grandma-plenty-of-fish/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/nightcap-grandma-plenty-of-fish/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipOn Nightcap with Shannon Sharpe and Chad Johnson, a grandma's answer to “plenty of fish in the sea”: “Yeah, but you might not catch them.”https://realnameof.com/blog/news/la-la-anthony-rikers-mentoring/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/la-la-anthony-rikers-mentoring/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipOn Call Her Daddy, La La Anthony tells Alex Cooper she mentors 18- to 21-year-olds at Rikers Island and sees her son's face in the young men.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/smiley-face-killers/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/smiley-face-killers/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipThe Smiley Face Killers theory says a cult-like gang drowned young men and left smiley graffiti. The cases, the detectives' case and what the FBI found.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/armchair-expert-hayride-tractor-stayed-in-character/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/armchair-expert-hayride-tractor-stayed-in-character/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipOn Armchair Expert's Halloween episode, a caller tells Dax Shepard and Monica Padman a hayride tractor ran over her foot and she stayed in character.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/rhett-link-retaste-worst-foods-plain-chip/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/rhett-link-retaste-worst-foods-plain-chip/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipOn Good Mythical Morning, Rhett & Link retaste their lowest-rated Gut Check foods, and plain sea salt Lay's Poppables suddenly win them over.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/pbd-walked-away-25m-mansion/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/pbd-walked-away-25m-mansion/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipOn the PBD Podcast, Patrick Bet-David says he offered $21M on a $25M Boca Raton house, got a $24.5M counter and walked away because of the agent.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/jerrad-pawar-bbissick-600k-debt-bankroll/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/jerrad-pawar-bbissick-600k-debt-bankroll/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipWho is bbissick? Poker player Jerrad Pawar tells the Uncapped Poker Podcast he was $600K in debt in 2023, then made $140K in three months.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/drake-record-deal-rumor-real-name-aubrey-drake-graham/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/drake-record-deal-rumor-real-name-aubrey-drake-graham/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipRumor: DJ Akademiks says Drake is close to the biggest record deal ever. Nothing is confirmed. What we know, what we don't, and Drake's real name.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/bart-hanson-river-donk-3bet-bluff/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/bart-hanson-river-donk-3bet-bluff/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipA caller tells Crush Live Poker's Bart Hanson he led $50 on a $2/$5 river with aces, hoping to get raised so he could 3-bet bluff. He got raised to $475.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/adrian-mateos-1-5k-to-a-million/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/adrian-mateos-1-5k-to-a-million/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipAdrian Mateos tells Chip Leader Coaching he started with about 1.5K at 18 and won a million in his first 10K buy-in, the 2013 WSOP Europe Main Event.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/caleb-hammer-prenup-week-before-wedding/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/caleb-hammer-prenup-week-before-wedding/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipOn Caleb Hammer's Financial Audit, a couple a week from their wedding argue over a prenup she says she's never been shown. Caleb's suggestion.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/jessa-duggar-ben-seewald-first-kiss/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/jessa-duggar-ben-seewald-first-kiss/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipJessa Duggar (now Jessa Seewald) and Ben Seewald explain why they skipped the altar kiss at their 2014 wedding and kissed in private first.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/kalshi-goat-herder-prediction-market-hedge/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/kalshi-goat-herder-prediction-market-hedge/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipKalshi CEO Tarek Mansour told the PBD Podcast a goat herder got paid on a $500K hedge. Here’s how the Western Grazers contract actually resolved.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/niecy-nash-ed-asner-walk-of-fame-star/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/niecy-nash-ed-asner-walk-of-fame-star/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipOn The Oprah Podcast, Niecy Nash-Betts retells how, as a kid, she told Ed Asner she’d get a Walk of Fame star, and how he came when she did.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/jon-stewart-ed-zitron-anthropic-shark-tank/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/jon-stewart-ed-zitron-anthropic-shark-tank/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipCritic Ed Zitron told Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz) that Anthropic’s numbers don’t add up. His claims vs. what the S-1 reports.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/bill-ackman-carl-icahn-herbalife-lawsuit/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/bill-ackman-carl-icahn-herbalife-lawsuit/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipBill Ackman tells Nicolai Tangen how a $4.5 million lawsuit win over Carl Icahn set up their Herbalife feud and his costly short bet.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/sarah-paine-soviet-grocery-store-77-items/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/sarah-paine-soviet-grocery-store-77-items/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipHistorian Sarah Paine tells Steven Bartlett about shopping in the 1988-89 Soviet Union: about 77 items, meat smells and Hungarian apples.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/daniel-ricciardo-hiding-from-humiliation-f1-exit/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/daniel-ricciardo-hiding-from-humiliation-f1-exit/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipDaniel Ricciardo tells F1 Beyond The Grid he hid “a lot of pain and sadness” after his last F1 race in 2024, and now looks back with pride.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/colum-tyrrell-ymca-stargazing-camping/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/colum-tyrrell-ymca-stargazing-camping/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipComedian Colum Tyrrell tells Joe Rogan how a silent 2 a.m. stargazing session with fellow comics was interrupted by Village People’s “YMCA.”https://realnameof.com/blog/news/cain-velasquez-dana-white-sparring-signed/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/cain-velasquez-dana-white-sparring-signed/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipOn the Shawn Ryan Show, Cain Velasquez recalls the Las Vegas sparring session that got him signed by Dana White “on the spot.”https://realnameof.com/blog/news/tesla-company-history-real-names/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/tesla-company-history-real-names/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipTesla was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning and named after Nikola Tesla. How Elon Musk became CEO, and the five legal co-founders.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/spacex-company-history-real-names/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/spacex-company-history-real-names/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipSpaceX is short for Space Exploration Technologies Corp., founded by Elon Musk in 2002. Who runs it, its biggest milestones, and the real names behind it.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/sophie-cunningham-louis-vuitton-bag-theo-von/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/sophie-cunningham-louis-vuitton-bag-theo-von/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipWNBA star Sophie Cunningham told Theo Von a 'security' guy threw Brittney Griner's Louis Vuitton bags into her face at an airport, leaving a black eye.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/sophia-bush-memoir-chad-michael-murray-real-name/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/sophia-bush-memoir-chad-michael-murray-real-name/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipSophia Bush's memoir And I Will Tell You Mine revisits her 2005 marriage to Chad Michael Murray. Here's what she wrote, the timeline, and her full name.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/rhett-and-link-tens-pain-pen-good-mythical-morning/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/rhett-and-link-tens-pain-pen-good-mythical-morning/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipRhett & Link test a TENS pain-relief pen on Good Mythical Morning: 'It's a good pain.' Watch the clip, learn how TENS works, and see their real names.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/nicole-virzi-guilty-plea-leon-katz-pittsburgh/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/nicole-virzi-guilty-plea-leon-katz-pittsburgh/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipNicole Virzi, 32, pleaded guilty Oct. 28, 2026, to third-degree murder in the 2024 Pittsburgh death of 6-week-old Leon Katz. Her sentence: 35 to 80 years.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/mark-cuban-everything-is-a-meme-stock-diary-of-a-ceo/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/mark-cuban-everything-is-a-meme-stock-diary-of-a-ceo/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipMark Cuban told Steven Bartlett that Bitcoin, Google, Apple and Micron trade like meme stocks: 'We're trading them like baseball cards.' Watch the clip.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/kelce-brothers-bigboys-com-200k-new-heights/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/kelce-brothers-bigboys-com-200k-new-heights/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipOn New Heights, Travis and Jason Kelce learn bigboys.com would cost $200,000, and Travis is ready with the Platinum AMEX. Watch the clip and real names.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/jennifer-lawrence-paparazzi-staged-call-her-daddy/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/jennifer-lawrence-paparazzi-staged-call-her-daddy/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipJennifer Lawrence told Alex Cooper on Call Her Daddy why she'd never tip off paparazzi herself. Watch the clip, plus her real name and quick facts.https://realnameof.com/blog/news/caleb-hammer-why-no-savings-financial-audit/https://realnameof.com/blog/news/caleb-hammer-why-no-savings-financial-audit/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Celebrity News & GossipOn Financial Audit, Caleb Hammer grills a guest with good income, zero savings and a $1,000 loan repaid as $1,200. Watch the clip and the money lessons.