Celebrity names when the check into hotels...

[froggie]

interesting!

 

http://www.financialpost.com/related/links....html?id=569859

 

 

Celebrities come up with the oddest aliases when they want to travel incognito or escape their fans. Kate Beckinsale, for example, checks in as Sigourney Beaver. "It was a spur of the moment thing. When I was first asked my name it just came out."

 

Her husband, however, hates it when she uses the alias when he's travelling with her. "He doesn't like it when they call to ask him something and they say, "Hello, Mr. Beaver."

 

When Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were together, they would sometimes resort to the oddest aliases when they stayed in hotels. Their favourite was "Mr. and Mrs. Ross Vegas." Now that they have parted, the Ross Vegases have vanished from the sign-in books.

 

The signatures have been replaced by "Bruce and Jasmine Pilaf," the checking-in alias used by Pitt and Angelina Jolie when they stayed at California's Parker Palm Springs hotel. Jolie also liked signing into hotels as Miss Lollipop; Pitt uses the name Carl Con Carne.

 

Not to be outdone, Jennifer Aniston has been having great fun signing in as "Mrs. Smith," so much so that the staff at Chicago's Peninsula Hotel, where she often stays, call her "Mrs. Smith" even though they know who she is. She also likes to use the name "Miss Manners."

 

It isn't often that Prince Charles wants to use an alias to avoid the attention of reporters and photographers, but when he does, he comes up with some beauties. Like signing himself in as "Charlie Chester" when visiting a London club to see A Night at the Opera. One of his titles is the Earl of Chester. He has also used "Charles Renfrew" and travelled as "Mr. Perkins," a name borrowed from a former bodyguard.

 

The prince is a keen amateur painter, and once had a painting hung at the Royal Academy using the name "Arthur George Garrick," taken from two of his names and part of one of his titles.

 

It is difficult to believe that anybody could fail to recognize the Queen and Prince Philip, but it happened some years ago when they were using one of their rare aliases in a public place. Using the name of one of her ladies-in-waiting, the Queen booked two seats at a London theatre. Amazingly, all went well at the foyer and when they were shown to their seats. Their ruse might have succeeded completely had they not been given the wrong seats.

 

The usherette who asked Prince Philip if they wouldn't mind moving along the row certainly had no idea to whom she was speaking. But when the royal couple stood up and had to squeeze past others to get to their proper places, their cover was quickly blown.

 

For his part, Elton John has a number of favourites, including Brian Bigbun, Bobo Latrine or Sir Humphrey Handbag.

 

Ozzy Osbourne has hidden out under the names of Prince Albert and Harry Bollocks.

 

On the occasions when Apollo C. Vermouth travels, he isn't always instantly recognized by older fellow travellers, although a number of middle-aged and younger ones usually do a double take.

 

Is it ... Paul McCartney? It is. It's a name he has often used when he needs an alternative, either when travelling or when he used to back another singer or group anonymously. His late Beatle cosongwriter John Lennon enjoyed using Dr. Winston O'Boogie.

 

Bob Dylan, on the other hand, dreamed up really wacky aliases, including Justin Case, Jim Nasium and Blind Boy Grunt.

 

Even the recognizable Britney Spears feels she needs to hide behind a name when she doesn't want to be recognized. One of her many aliases when she checks into hotels is Alotta Warmheart.

 

Hollywood hunk Matt Damon sometimes used his middle name -- "Matthew Paige" -- or his mother's maiden name, "Matthew Carlsson-Page" when getting away from it all. But Damon's favourite is "John President."

 

"Being referred to as 'Mr. President' all the time is very gratifying."

 

Mr. Stench, Mr. Oddpong, Mr. Drip Noodle, Mr. Donkey Ass are just some of the outrageous names Johnny Depp adopts to avoid the media. You would think such names would draw attention to him but he insists they've worked for him in the past.

 

"Instead of using Smith or Jones, I derive a lot of pleasure from booking airline tickets or checking into hotels under absurd, often indecent pseudonyms," he admits. "I do it when I am certain they don't know who I really am," he adds. "They probably think I'm weird -- well, I suppose I am-- but they have to play along with it. It's hilarious to get a wakeup call at some ludicrous hour, like 5:30 a. m., and the guy has to say, 'Good morning, Mr. Stench. Good morning Mr. Drip Noodle, you have to get up now.' "

 

John Travolta usually signs in as "J. T. Smith," and Paris Hilton often turns into "Tinkerbell." George Clooney admits that he used to check into hotels as "Arnold Schwarzenegger."

 

"It was the funniest thing in the world, because they knew I wasn't Mr. Schwarzenegger, but they had to call me that, and it was really enjoyable watching their faces when they did."

 

Catherine Zeta Jones says she always wanted to be "Holly Golightly," but she couldn't bring herself to do it. And Tiger Woods likes using the name "B. Simpson."

 

But possibly the oddest pseudonym was that adopted by one of Hollywood's greatest legends -- Zelda Zonk. Why she bothered with such an alias when travelling was a mystery. She had one of the best-known faces --and bodies --in cinema history: Marilyn Monroe.

[Analogman]

I just read the Pattie Boyd book - and she talks about doing such things back in the day.

[MrRain422]

*obligatory Ron Mexico joke*