noooo!! ive just registered my babys birth and...

[SkyeplusArlo]

theres a new character on bloody HOLLYOAKS who's totally nicked my name,am compleatley gutted...i want to cry.

Why?

im not even sure...hormones?

It doesn't matter really

tis stupid,i love the name i shouldnt care,right?! but i just feel like they've stolen it.
i think it's just really bad luck,that i saw it today!or i doubt id care.

They haven't nicked your name, it is a coincidence.
What is the name?

thanks

what's he/she called?
does anyone actually watch hollyoaks anyway, apart from students?

Arlo

he's a boy.well i havent watched it since i was a student...except for tonight!
i was stranded whilst bf! remote out of reach,and BANG! hormones, que hysterical someone nicked my name and put it hollyoaks ranting

Lovely name. I don't watch Hollyoaks so I would never have known

congrats by the way!

There there Skype could be worse ...Theres a great big poodle round here with the same name as my DD

awwhh,i knew you guys would make me laugh!

Reminds me of after I had my daughter and someone asked if I had named her after the character from Coronation Street. Not the best compliment I have had about a name!

oh no,see thats exactly what im dreading!

Was it because the daughter (whose name I can't remember) was taking the piss out of the name Arlo?

Don't worry, no one will remember a Hollyoaks character in a week, let alone in years - the cast turnover is so bloody high! I hadn't watched it in a few weeks until tonight and didn't have a clue who anyone was (although the acting has gotten worse if that is possible). Also, if anyone does say anything, you're more within your rights to judge them for watching Hollyoaks than they are for assuming you've "copied" your son's name from it!

I promise I'm not a regular viewer, just thought I'd have a soap indulgence night tonight...

that is a brilliant responce! thanks

Natasha Kaplinsky's son is called Arlo

im not entirely sure what to make of that

ooh arlo is lovely, i have never heard it before.

I don't watch Hollyoaks. I don't know anybody who watches it.

The only semi-sleb link to the name Arlo I am aware of is Natasha Kerplunk's ds.

It really, really doesn't matter. It's hormones. He may even meet other Arlos at school.

It could be worse, Jamie Oliver named his boy after the dog of the family who live opposite me!!!

Only 13 year olds trapped in boarding schools watch Hollyoaks, so don't worry.
(oh, and you of course, but you said it was a one-off )

Arlo is a great name. Congratulations.

I gave my son the same name as a soap character. Given I didn't watch the soap I had no idea but lo and behold 24 hours after I gave birth said soap character was killed off in some nonsensical storyline and the 'whodunnit' was splashed all over the blooming tabloids. I lost count of the idiotic buffoons who asked me if I named him after this character!!!! 'Oh yes', I thought of replying, 'we really thought it would be delightful to name my beautiful baby boy after a low rent soap star in honour of the fact that this week he met his untimely demise by bring thrown of a car park roof' (or something equally preposterous). I was so enraged by these cretins I almost considered changing baby's name but husband was far less hormonal than me (and frankly couldn't face any more baby name debates) so the name stayed. Within literally weeks the carped it soap character was forgotten and now nobody ever makes that association.

So please don't fret. Some imbecile may ask but that's more of a reflection on them than you. Frankly there are that many soap/real life dramas about now it's hard to avoid your name coming up somewhere. It's a great name and you need not worry at all. Anyhoo if at any point in the future someone asks me to rule the world I intend to pass a law that states all names can only be used once (I clearly get first dibs on the ones I've already picked what with ne being in charge) and then all these problems will be solved..

Oh and just in case you're interested my son is neither Dirty Den nor JR x

Terry from Brookside was thrown from a roof wasn't he?

I remember an Arlo in Family Affairs, the ill-fated Channel 5 soap.

OOOH I loved family affairs ..it was so crap it was good