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Laura, that is so easy to check. Well done you for outing Mr (du) Beke! Mind you it is an unusual name.
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Would love to say I outed him, but I think it's referring to all the people who emailed and searched him. I just passed the message on
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I'm going to be catty and say I'm surprised he's only 43
![]() I suppose it's not really any of our business if he wants to change his name! |
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Yeah surely there are more important issues then what Anton's calling himself. Clearly he doesnt want to be known as Tony so people should really leave it at that, surely it cant actually be considered 'news' anymore. Whatever he's calling himself Anton is Anton and thats all that matters <3
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I'm going to be catty and say I'm surprised he's only 43
![]() I suppose it's not really any of our business if he wants to change his name! Can't always believe Wikepedia - after all, it claims Len Goodman is 65! That means he has lost 3 years somewhere along the way!! Not that I blame Wiki - Len himself claims he was born in 1942! As for Tony-cum-Anton - even he seems to be getting confused! First he was Tony (Anthony) Beke; then he became Anton du Beck, now he seems to be Anton du Beke!!! [I blame the BBC!!!!!!] ![]() ![]()
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No he was Tony Beke at first, his father's name was Beke.
He decided to change his name when at a competition a long time ago the presenter announced him as Anton Du Beke for a joke. Everyone wondered who on earth it was coming onto the floor and then fell about laughing when they realised who it was. After that he decided he liked it and kept it. He said he asked Tony afterwards about it as he used to speak to him a bit,Tony said that he was sick of foreigh couples always coming over and winning and thought that the judges saw his name, knew he was English and makred him lowed. So for a joke decided to dance as 'Anton de Beck'. Anyway he won the competition and has never gone back to Tony Beke. And yes - all the other dancers on SCD laugh about it because it's a widely known story in the dancing circles.
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I love Anton whatever his real namae may be.
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Just been reading this thread and was amused by it
![]() I do not suppose it really matters what he calls himself. I do like Anton as a performer he does make me laugh and he is a great ballroom dancer. I think in the future he will go in to presenting as he seems fairly good at this. |
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Why are we being so mean to Anton? It's hardly unusual for performers to change their names/have a stage name. Although a few people insist on this thread on calling him Tony, I doubt that was what he was christened/named - it's simply a diminutive of Anthony just as Anton can be. So let him call himself what he wants.
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Why are we being so mean to Anton? It's hardly unusual for performers to change their names/have a stage name. Although a few people insist on this thread on calling him Tony, I doubt that was what he was christened/named - it's simply a diminutive of Anthony just as Anton can be. So let him call himself what he wants.
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Why are we being so mean to Anton? It's hardly unusual for performers to change their names/have a stage name. Although a few people insist on this thread on calling him Tony, I doubt that was what he was christened/named - it's simply a diminutive of Anthony just as Anton can be. So let him call himself what he wants.
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Why are we being so mean to Anton? It's hardly unusual for performers to change their names/have a stage name. Although a few people insist on this thread on calling him Tony, I doubt that was what he was christened/named - it's simply a diminutive of Anthony just as Anton can be. So let him call himself what he wants.
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Why are we being so mean to Anton? It's hardly unusual for performers to change their names/have a stage name. Although a few people insist on this thread on calling him Tony, I doubt that was what he was christened/named - it's simply a diminutive of Anthony just as Anton can be. So let him call himself what he wants.
(He was Christened Anthony, but it was always shortened to Tony). |
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I much prefer Anton as a name to Tony.
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Exactly. Anthony being shortened to Anton is no different to Matthew being Matt yet no one picks on that.
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That's because that is the name we have always known him by, and the name we call him when we are speaking to him face-to-face!
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Oh come off it - he's been known as Anton for at least a decade now, so you're a bit out of date. I'm amazed he speaks to 'we' face to face if 'we' insist on calling him something else but then he has such good manners.
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Oh come off it - he's been known as Anton for at least a decade now, so you're a bit out of date. I'm amazed he speaks to 'we' face to face if 'we' insist on calling him something else but then he has such good manners.
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Unless you happen to be fat in which case he is probably thinking you should be shot
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Maybe that was a bit below the belt of me
![]() I guess I just don't really buy the 'English gentleman' image Anton has. It's not really to do with the 'fat people should be shot' thing, I just find he comes over a bit fake. But I have never met him so I suppose I should reserve judgement. |
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I guess I can sort of see where you're coming from as to his tv personality, katie, but I met both him and Erin recently, and they are as wonderful as you could want them to be. I honestly couldn't think of a bad word to say about either of them. But I'm willing to accept a bit of bias on my part
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Anthony and Anton are so much nicer names than Tony.
Anton just suits him.
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Anthony and Anton are so much nicer names than Tony.
Anton just suits him. ![]() I think so, too. he has a perfect right to call himself what he wants, and whatever his original name was is not important. |
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While former Strictly Come Dancing partner Esther Rantzen claims he has tampered with his name to make it sound more interesting, Anton is having none of it.
"That's rubbish" he scoffs. "Who told you that? My mother's Spanish and my father's Hungarian, so it's hardly suprising I'd have an unusual name" Anyway, he can rename himself whatever he likes. I used to be called Dirk Diggler but I got a lot of... unwelcome attention... |
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I really did laugh at Anton awarding himself this casual bull****. So I'll call him Eeyore then- that's unusual. Fair's fair!
Anyway, he can rename himself whatever he likes. I used to be called Dirk Diggler but I got a lot of... unwelcome attention... ![]() ![]() ![]() I think he has denied it for so long that he is never now going to climb down and admit it. I guess he would rather put up with the digs from fellow professionals than go public. |
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