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A British influencer couple have sparked confusion after revealing their newborn baby’s name – with some branding it “ridiculous” as others cast doubt over whether it was even real.
Corey and Lea, a couple from Wales who have risen to fame on TikTok with their food vlogs, recently welcomed their first baby.
And after weeks of speculation, the new parents have just revealed the name of their little boy in a dramatic video that has left many scratching their heads.
“The moment you’ve all been waiting for,” the couple captioned the clip, which started out with a shot of them holding the baby on the couch as grabs of comments from readers appeared asking: “What’s his name?”
Followers were left stunned, and a little confused, when the video revealed Corey and Lea had named their son Adventure.
“Ridiculous name,” said one.
“I don’t get it,” wrote someone else.
As another declared: “You’ve both totally lost it.”
Others questioned whether the name was legitimate, suggesting it was a moniker for social media, and not the baby’s legal name.
“This is 100% rage bait,” remarked one.
“Gotta be his internet name, no way it’s real,” agreed someone else.
The name admission comes just days after singer Anne-Marie sparked similar confusion after she told the world that her five-month-old son’s name is Forever Sugar.
The mother-of-two appeared, best known for her songs 2002 and Rockabye, gave birth to her second child with rapper Slowthai in May.
But during a recent appearance on British breakfast show This Morning to talk about her new single, the show’s host Cat Deeley asked if Anne-Marie would share her son’s name publicly as she hadn’t up until that point.
She said the inspiration for his first name was a “weird thing”, revealing her grandmother used to sign every card with “always and forever”.
“And now my mom does it and now my sister does it. I just think Forever is just a cool name,” she said.
“Sugar’s his middle name because I had the diabetes thing you get when you’re pregnant.”
Anne-Marie has another child — a daughter named Seven — with Slowthai, who was found not guilty in 2024 of raping a woman with another man at an afterparty in 2021.
Her revelation, and that of influencer’s Corey and Lea, is one of many that has people asking; “Are celebrities pranking us?”
“Fully convinced that celebs give out fake names for their kids to cause controversy so that no one knows their kids’ actual names,” one commented on social media.
“Surely Forever Sugar has to be a wind up?” suggested another.
“This is a joke, calling a child Adventure is ridiculous, stop trying to be different,” raged another.
Others defended the unusual names.
“Call YOUR CHILD what you want!!! It’s really no ones else’s business,” shared one.
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“These comments are awful, that is someone’s baby, someone’s world,” added another.
Corey and Lea have both appeared to confirm the name is real after their post was flooded with skeptics.
“Adventure is here, a love as big as your name,” the dad wrote on TikTok, while Lea added: “Welcome to our world baby Adventure.”
The world has seen no shortage of unique baby names of the years. Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow were some of the first with Apple. Kim Kardashian and Kayne West stunned with North.
Trisha Paytas went above and beyond with the names Malibu Barbie Paytas-Hacmon, Elvis Paytas-Hacmon, and Aquaman Moses Paytas-Hacmon.
Nicole Reaney, a PR expert and the CEO of InsideOut PR, said that we don’t always need to color between the lines when it comes to baby names.
“A bit of fun with a name can create a unique identity for a person and a sense of character,” she told news.com.au.
“Some selected names can be a questionable and take that creativity a little too far!”
She said that celebrities are “innately eccentric” and often unique names are a reflection of that.
“There are also privacy concerns when it comes to a celebrity’s child, particularly with the explosion of AI and fake news sites,” she said.
“Sometimes a pseudo name is created to avoid public intrusion into their personal lives.”
Whether this is a trend we will see grow, Reaney said it could go either way.
“Some celebrities are over-sharers and their children become a part of their personal brand, some integrate a little more naturally and feature their children on occasion, while some are more cautious and protective,” she said.
“Definitely as digital thieves rise, we are likely to see more people in the spotlight being a little more mindful of how much they share.”
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