Unfortunate name choice

You could call him Hugo as a nn.

Ann Leuchars, Julia Somerville, John Craven, George Alagiah, Peter Woods, John Humphrys, Fiona Bruce, Katie Dereham, Kirsty Young, ...

Reggie Bosanquet

Jan Leeming, Angela Ripon, Trevor Macdonald, Moira Stuart (off the top of my head).

@mathanxiety , I thought OP's DS was Hugh, so it's not really worth changing it to something else that's also similar. It would make more sense to use the full name. Hugh Arthur Edwards or whatever.

I’ve know a James Saville, a Peter Sutcliffe, and a Michael Jackson over the years. I’m sure they’ve all heard all the jokes and (as far as I know, for them) it really wasn’t ever a big deal.

@dsandhisname

HE has been almost completely forgotten now that the Greg Wallace train wreck is under way.

You could call him Hughie if you really want to distance yourselves, but I don't think it's necessary.

Would you call a girl Rose if your surname was West?

I think the point of the OP is that the DS shares both first and last names with someone famous at the moment for the wrong reasons.

Honestly, I think Huw Edwards will be completely forgotten in 5 + years. What he did was bad, but he was just a boring newsreader IYSWIM, rather than a high profile celebrity. Think how many newsreaders from the past that you can remember the names of - I can’t think of any really.

I’d be more concerned if the infamous person was more well known to younger generations. The average kid at school won’t know Gregg Wallace but if the name is someone known to young people like Andrew Tate or Jake Paul then I’d be more concerned because I’d feel like I’d have to explain why the infamous person is bad before they find out from someone at school.

Ah, what a coincidence!

Neither should I, but it was very compelling in a 'read through your fingers and try not to cringe' way

I'm happy to leave it there, but I will say in closing that you will, before long, experience some people on here who are genuinely nasty and pull no punches whatsoever - as well as the majority who are nice people, but who will kindly point out when you break the long-standing widely-accepted etiquette on here.

The reality is that nobody will even remember him in 5 years. He may have made bad judgement but he wasn't breaking the law even.

@ShaggyPutItOnWhatAPongItGaveHimTheShakesNShivers , yes. (I know I shouldn't read trash but ).

This may be a very long shot, but I too was re-reading an old guilty pleasure book recently after many years and found the same as you: the author suddenly praising JS right near the end, having gone through most of the book criticising almost all of the famous (and non-famous) people she'd ever met for not being 'classy'.

It wasn't perchance Lynda Lee-Potter's autobiography 'Class Act' was it?!

By no stretch of the imagination was it friendly and jovial. Unless you are a moderator or the OP then you had no business patrolling and confronting others. Pouncing on my well intentioned advice, and bringing me down. I pulled you up on it, and you don’t like it. Now let’s leave it there.

If you think the friendly, jovial way that I worded that was rude and entitled, you must have led a very charmed life.

It's actually very rude to join a conversation that's well underway without even bothering to read the OP's posts even if no others.

Yes, I've also been short on time (or just couldn't be bothered) to properly acquaint myself with how a thread has progressed; on those occasions, I don't add my comments, as I'm very aware that I may well say the same thing as 500 other posters and or say/ask something that is now irrelevant - and maybe even upsetting to the OP - as the thread will obviously have moved on since then.

The very worst case of this was when a much-loved terminally-ill MNer was asking for advice about a bucket-list UK seaside holiday. Long after she had very sadly died, having tragically never had the chance to make it there, there were still people coming on with tips and suggestions as to where she 'mustn't miss' going.

Welcome to MN and all the very best ; but please realise that this is a forum for everybody on it and isn't just a personal sounding board for any of us in a vacuum.

Are you going somewhere?

I've been having a bit of a book declutter. I had a book that looked promising until a few pages in the author was saying how great RB was. I read no further.
Another book seemed OK, a light read, but in the last pages the author was praising JS. I felt sick. They were different authors and not particularly connected with the BBC.

@Alittlebitfluffy I also think by the time this child is in his teen his peers won't have a clue who Huw Edwards was. Most teens even now won't.

@Alittlebitfluffy the problem is what happens if the OP changes the name and then next week someone with that name does something horrific?
Keep changing it 🤔

Me too! I'd want to change it myself. Assume you can't all change to your maiden last name? Probably not. I'd worry about bullying in the teen years but by adult it'll be fine. 4 is a bit hard to change a short name that can't be adjusted like if it was Russell brand it's an easy tweak to Russ.

Bye then.

It is unpleasant, so I'm not sure why someone confronted me like that. Anyway, I get the gist of the kind of forum it is now.

It makes sense to at least read the OP's posts before posting on a thread several pages long, @Itsoneofthose . If you click See all on the OP it will show you just those. If you skim through those, you can get a gist.

MN is a good place in general, but being rude is unpleasant.