Lancashire woman changes her name in honour of G4

Blackpool Gazette

Meet the Blackpool woman who changed her name to include the names of her favourite band members and see how they react!

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00:23 --isn't being-- because it's the boys' 20th anniversary,

00:27 I thought I had to do something that would last forever for me.

00:31 And I thought, well, can I do a tattoo now?

00:35 Got a new number plate as well.

00:37 But I thought, no, I'm going to do something

00:40 so I change my name to their names,

00:44 just so it's there forever.

00:48 And when did Mike and Jonathan-- when did you find out about that?

00:52 Well, we got a WhatsApp a few weeks back.

00:55 Yeah, was it like 10 days?

00:57 We were in the middle of our rehearsals.

00:58 I remember it being last week, the horse track of the day.

01:00 That one it was.

01:00 It was a couple of weeks ago.

01:02 Couple of weeks ago.

01:03 Right, couple of weeks, yeah.

01:04 It came through to us, and our jaws fell off.

01:07 We were definitely taken aback.

01:10 You've caught us out with that one.

01:11 We've got a number of people with G4 tattoos and autographs

01:15 and various faces and things embedded in ink indefinitely.

01:20 But to have a name change is an extra step forward.

01:23 And it shows real support for the band.

01:25 And yeah, it's a mad thing, but good for you.

01:28 No, honestly, I couldn't think of anything else

01:32 that would last forever and would--

01:36 hopefully you will last forever.

01:38 And no, it's just my way of--

01:41 I'll never, ever not be a fan of any of your--

01:46 of all your names.

01:48 But what made you come up with the idea to do that?

01:51 Because as John was saying, you know,

01:52 you've had-- we've had tattoos done and whatever.

01:56 And I'm just thinking, we've always had stars named after us

01:59 and things like that.

02:00 So people do come up with all these original ideas.

02:02 In fact, I've got one just here.

02:03 That's a Hollywood Walk of Fame star that I've got here.

02:08 But what made you think of the name?

02:10 Because that is totally original to us.

02:12 We've never come across it.

02:15 No, I just thought something different,

02:18 something that no one else has done,

02:19 not that I'm aware of anyway.

02:21 And I just-- it's set in stone now.

02:26 Your name will always be with me forever

02:29 because you're in my name now.

02:31 So-- and the way I worded it, I was going to put--

02:35 I'd probably put your two surnames because of Mike

02:38 and John, but it could be anybody.

02:40 So I thought, no, everybody knows Christy and Ansel.

02:43 And Duncan and Jai, if I put their surnames,

02:47 it would have sounded like a firm of visitors.

02:49 So I put them as Duncan and Jai.

02:54 But no, I love the new name.

02:57 Changed it anyway.

02:58 I'm just waiting for my driving license

03:00 to come back with it on now.

03:01 Can't wait to see that.

03:02 20 years.

03:10 Since the Monarchs happened.

03:11 I remember the first gig.

03:13 Yeah.

03:13 I voted for the Monarchs fighter and everything.

03:16 And then as soon as they started touring,

03:18 I went to see about three or four.

03:20 I went up to Edinburgh, saw them in Blackpool.

03:25 I think one was Halifax.

03:26 I'm not sure.

03:27 But no, I've followed them for 20 years.

03:29 I've been listening to their music for 20 years.

03:31 Oh, yeah, many times.

03:37 Would you say that Christine's your biggest fan, boys?

03:44 She's up there.

03:45 You are--

03:46 I think after what she's done--

03:47 A lot of the shows.

03:48 Exactly.

03:50 The only thing I'm wondering is obviously you're doing this.

03:55 Other fans are going to be thinking, right,

03:56 what can I come up with that's going to be original?

03:59 So I'm sort of slightly intrigued, slightly excited

04:01 to think what other people are going to come up with that

04:04 will blow our minds as well that we haven't even thought about.

04:09 Yeah, I thought--

04:09 I didn't know if anybody else had done this.

04:11 I'd never heard of anybody doing it.

04:14 And I thought, this is different.

04:15 This is totally different.

04:18 No, I can't think of anything else.

04:21 Most of us have got your G4 number plates, obviously.

04:25 And it's like, well, what more can you do?

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