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You won’t believe these 21 celebrities’ “real” names – but you WILL laugh at them

Some stars of stage, screen and microphone don’t use their own names – David Bowie was really David Jones, Elton John is Reginald Dwight and Cary Grant was Archie Leach. These facts might be useful in a pub quiz, but some of the “celebrity real names” you might have seen around recently will lose you points, because they’re just nonsense – but they’re funny nonsense, so here are 21 we really enjoyed.

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