{"id":1792,"date":"2008-03-20T12:15:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T12:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/03\/making-miley-official.html"},"modified":"2008-03-20T12:15:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T12:15:33","slug":"making-miley-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/03\/making-miley-official.html","title":{"rendered":"Making &#8216;Miley&#8217; Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MileyCyruspicforidolchatter.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/MileyCyruspicforidolchatter.jpg\" width=\"136\" height=\"200\" style=\"float:right;margin: 5px\">There&#8217;s a grand old tradition of changing your name in order to make it big. But usually the change is made to distance yourself from tradition or religious affiliation (I&#8217;m looking at you, <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0000316\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melvin Kaminsky<\/a>!) or because there&#8217;s already another actor in the union with a similar name (and that&#8217;s how Michael Fox got his &#8220;J.&#8221;).<br \/>\nBut yesterday, CNN announced (that they had read it on TMZ.com) that the former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/03\/18\/people.cyrus.namechange.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Destiny Hope Cyrus officially changed her name <\/a>to the nickname her Achy Breaky Daddy gave her when she was a baby, &#8220;Miley.&#8221; (Actually her nickname was &#8220;Smiley Miley,&#8221; but I guess that&#8217;d be overkill.)<br \/>\nNow her legal name will match her stage name, &#8220;Miley Ray Cyrus.&#8221; How this affects you, dear reader? You can now turn to the person next to you and say, &#8220;Huh&#8230;I never knew this wasn&#8217;t her name&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd now we return you to the rest of your pop culture non-news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a grand old tradition of changing your name in order to make it big. 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