Eccentric L.A. Lakers basketball star Ron Artest has officially changed his legal name to Metta World Peace, EW has confirmed. The name change comes just in time for World Peace’s stint on the new season of Dancing With The Stars, which premieres on Monday, Sept. 19.
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I love him and college-hookups was amazing
DUMBEST NAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bozo the clwn is a better name…
The dumbest name change ever was Prince’s symbol.
Yes, that was really stupid, but I don’t think Prince ever attempted to have his name legally changed.
@ TRH, Actually, he did have it changed, he was under contract with the name Prince, so he changed it to get out of the contract, when the contract ran out he changed it back.
Didn’t know that. Interesting info. I’m glad he’s Prince again.
Is his last name now Peace or World Peace?
First Name: Metta
Last Name: World Peace
Bozo the Clown is already taken
For heaven sake’s what is up with people wanting to change their names to something else, a while prince though he could change his name to some stupid and now Ron Artest. I guess when you have more money you can handle, people tend to do idiotic things
hm, I hate to break it to you but Prince never wanted to change his name. He changed it as a statement about owning his own music. See, his former label claimed rights to any song made by “Prince” so he left the label and changed it. He is an artist and was understandably upset that someone else claimed ownership of the music he wrote and recorded. Sorry you are too stupid to get it, but I figured I would help you along anyway
@Daisy: Chill out. There’s not need to call anyone stupid. Many people don’t know the details behind Prince’s name change. You could have passed on this information without being obnoxious.
someone’s on her high horse of knowledge….
@daisy
Gee sorry we’re not all Prince experts.
@ Daisy you sound like you have great knowledge in the music business but lack of social skills.I bet youre always with your face buried in the computer but no communication wth the outside world.Smart ASs obnoxious looser
Ugh. I will cringe if he gets past the first few weeks of competition. “Metta World Peace and his partner…” … really?
ya now im curious to watch this show just to hear him say that lol
I was saying it in my head (with the announcer accent, of course) and it just sounds off.
Me too, SV. Major douche chills.
He should have changed his name to Cornelius.
My friend’s name is Cornelius. We call him Neil.
Does he also look like an ape?
Hmm CAN’T IMAGINE what Lucky is implying here. The more things change.. Smdh.
wtf? but people know him as Ron I’m sure so are they going to start to actually call him metta now on dwts? lmao
I can’t wait to see Tom try not to crack up every time he has to call him Metta World Peace… And the snikering that will go on the first time we hear Brooke say “Metta, how does it feel?” and “to vote for World Peace, call such and such number”; good stuff for sure!
LOL! Even though I think he is idiotic for doing this stupid attention seeking stunt, when you look at it from that angle, I’m actually kind of on board with it now. I definitely will love to hear Tom’s snark & see dear bubbleheaded Brooke try not to get confused.
Why!?
I just don’t get how they get away with this, it was such a pain to change my name when I got married, there is no way I’d go through it again, besides, I had to have a marriage license to prove a reason to change my name, or it has to be court ordered or an adoption situation here. I can see a few reasons for it, but this just seems stupid.
Jealous much?
@Nappy
Overuse cliche phrases much?
wow sucks to be you when i got married changing my name was a breeze
Wow, sucks to be you. You have no command of English or punctuation. Life must be hard.
How does he get away with it? He asked the court for permission to legally change his name. They granted it. Unless you have some sort of professional license attached to your old name (doctor, lawyer, etc.) it’s really not that big of a deal to change it. I did it when I got married and don’t remember being as annoyed with it as you seem to be.
I think she’s more annoyed with the man she married.
were these guys dropped on their heads as children? this is NOT cool.. and i dont want to even know what else they think is cool. its so sad that they pay this idiots all of this money to pay a stupid game and there is so much hunger and poverty going on in the world.. get over yourselves!!!
Who does that
They should change the name of the show to “Dancing With The Granola Bars” because what ain’t fruits and nuts is flakes.
Or “Dancing With The … Who?”
I find it odd that in many states you can’t change your last name to be that of your same-sex partner, but you can change your name to Metta World Peace.
i could care less….but remember miley cyrus? IT really is not that hard!