Macaulay Culkin knows how to keep the promises he makes.
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After running a fan-voted poll in 2018 asking for suggestions for his new middle name, the actor honoured the winning vote and legally changed his name in 2019.
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Appearing at a recent event in Long Beach, California, to mark 35 years of holiday classic โHome Aloneโ, the actor acknowledged that he had kept up his eyebrow-raising 2018 pledge. โMy name is Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin,โ he told the crowd.
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It so happened that in November 2018, Macaulay appeared on โThe Tonight Showโ, in which he announced his plans to drop his former middle name, Carson, for a different option.
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โI felt like, you know, I should probably spruce up my name a little bit,โ Macaulay told host Jimmy Fallon at the time. โWeโve narrowed it down to five options.โ
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Even though it was largely assumed that the former child star was joking, he offered fans a chance to share their opinions via an online poll on his now-defunct lifestyle website.
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On Christmas Day of that year, he announced the pollโs results on X, formerly Twitter. โYou voted and the winner is clear. In 2019 my new legal name will be: Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin,โ he wrote. โIt has a nice ring to it (if you like my name).โ
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During his appearance in Long Beach, Macaulay also revealed some of the other options suggested by fans, which included โThe McRib is Backโ and โKieranโ that comes from his brother, โSuccessionโ actor, Kieran Culkin.
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โMacaulay Kieran Culkin. That would be great. I love my brother. Between me and him, we have exactly one Oscar,โ he remarked, referring to his siblingโs Academy Award-winning performance in โA Real Painโ.
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Macaulay can currently be seen on โJohn Candy: I Like Meโ, Amazon Prime Videoโs new documentary about late John Candy, his โUncle Buckโ co-star.