Katy Brand: Katy Perry Changing Last Name

Get ready to adjust your iTunes - Katy Perry may soon be no more. The 'Teenage Dream' star is about to make the ultimate grown up move - changing her identity to match her newly wed status. Perry and comedian/actor Russell Brand tied the knot in October in an elaborate celebration in India.

Perry taped an appearance on 'The Ellen Degeneres Show' set to air on Wednesday, and when asked by the host if she was going to change her last name to her husband's, the name brand icon said that she was already, "in the process," of doing so.

In fact, the name change may make sense - Perry said that she's already getting called by the Brand surname.

She's called Brand, she told Ellen, "sometimes when people try to get my attention. Like if I'm at an event or something like that and they want special attention. They go, "Mrs. Brand!" and I go shwoosh [looking back]."

It won't be the first name change for Perry; born Kathryn Hudson, she adopted her mother's maiden name, Perry, to avoid confusion with the actress Kate Hudson.

Calling Brand, 'a lot of work," the soon-to-be Mrs. Brand said that her comedian husband is well worth the energy he brings. "He's a smorgasbord of things. A sense of humor is really important in our household. That's how we de-stress and we like to have a laugh."

Comments

[LauraYoung]

12:20 PM on 12/11/2010

Thank you, Susanna Williams, for saying what I was just logging in to say.

In fact, a lot of women, when they find out that I did not change my name to my husband's, say something along the lines of 'I got married when I was young and I just didn't think about it / I just got swept along with the whole thing / he would have lost it if I hadn't changed it / my in-laws would have lost it if I hadn't / I lived in a small town and I just couldn't be bothered with the drama ' - hardly indicative of a mature, fully-thought-out decision or even one that IS fully her decision.

For those bleating 'it's tradition' - it's a custom that has only been around for a few hundred years, which the US picked up from the UK (England, actually, not Scotland or Ireland - I don't know about Wales) and which has never been legally required in the UK anyway. Plenty of cultures all over the world do not do this, and the institution of marriage seems alive and well in those places.

Thankfully, my husband is the enlightened sort and said 'Well I'd never change mine, so why would I ask you to change yours?' and even thinks it would be 'weird' if I did change and become Mrs. Him, although 'it's your name, you can do what you want with it' - Imagine that!

[LaughingMan]

11:35 PM on 12/09/2010

In other "Who gives a sh%t?" News, Brett Ratner just signed on to be the director for the new Live screen adaption of "Barney the movie"........in 3D!

[larrykat]

05:30 PM on 12/09/2010

To what? Sasha Fierce? Chris Gaines? Tony Clifton? I would prefer buh bye.

[RanSays]

02:56 PM on 12/09/2010

Katy, I think you will be around longer than he will be.

[grange]

09:16 AM on 12/09/2010

Katy Brand NSFW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1zPJK8pUXE

[bwaldronxoxo]

08:51 AM on 12/09/2010

Katy Brand....not catchy enough...like Katy Perry much better
http://www.britneywaldron.com

[Marcellus Wallace]

06:58 AM on 12/09/2010

The new "Brand" won't change very much. It will still feature "all boobs, all the time."

[Dominick Roffo]

03:01 PM on 12/09/2010

and little talent

[Marcellus Wallace]

05:38 PM on 12/09/2010

Heh. :o)

[Susanna Williams]

06:56 AM on 12/09/2010

I don't care what Katy Perry is doing but for the Huffington Post to call taking your husband's last name "the ultimate grown up move" is sad and ridiculous. Does anyone think about what is behind the custom of a woman changing her last name ? We romanticize it, but it's obviously sexist. So while some women may make that choice- it's not "ultimate" or "grown up". It's just a worn out, irrelevant, sexist custom left over from a time when a woman was her father's and then her husband's property. And if you think it is because you love your husband, ask yourself this: He loves you, right? Would he change his name to yours? Why does love require us to lose our identity?

[ehomer]

10:25 AM on 12/09/2010

Thank you for saving me the trouble of saying this!

[WRPrintz]

11:56 AM on 12/09/2010

Interesting story...I met a woman whos last name was very, very long. When I asked her about it, she said "it's my husbands...I would have kept my last name...it was Butt, and I was tired of that.:

It's a legacy of our culture. Some people like it, some don't. I have two male friends who have taken their wives name, and one who hyphenates, but the vast majority of folks I know take the husbands surname. Is this right? No. Wrong? No.

It just is. You are correct that calling it the "Grown up move" is absurd. Take what name you like, no matter who you are. (and change it legally...that part really matters to the government)

[Anastasia]

01:18 AM on 12/09/2010

But will her music be any better?

Listen to her doing Firework, live. She can barely carry the tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qc03Yn7-Qw

[FOM]

01:03 AM on 12/09/2010

There's already a Katie Brand on UK television. I wonder if their union will require her to use a middle initial.

[Janis Alanis Zingaro]

02:00 AM on 12/09/2010

Katie Brand, US!

[Donna Blohm Glaser]

12:55 AM on 12/09/2010

Good for her! This is a woman who really loves her husband! Congratulation!

[Waiting for Something]

07:54 AM on 12/09/2010

So taking a man's last name is a sign of love? According to your logic, if a woman doesn't take her husband's last name she doesn't love him. Silly and old fashioned.

[ehomer]

10:27 AM on 12/09/2010

Silly & stupid & sexist. Guess my husband doesn't love me because he didn't take my name.

[RobertFromMN]

05:35 AM on 12/10/2010

Maybe she's a Southern Baptist. They say wives should "submit to their husbands"... whatever that means. I don't have any interest in a passive, dispirited, acquiescent, old-fashioned woman. Give me a hell-raiser. ;)

[MontereyDean]

12:44 AM on 12/09/2010

Am I wrong or do all of her songs sound pretty much the same?

[WeCanDoMore]

01:10 AM on 12/09/2010

That would be Incorrect.

[Janis Alanis Zingaro]

02:00 AM on 12/09/2010

If by the "same" you mean terrible, then yes.

[RobertFromMN]

05:43 AM on 12/10/2010

It's not my sort of music, but she has a good voice ...and a sweet personality.

[scat]

12:30 AM on 12/09/2010

so.

[TricksR4Kids]

12:24 AM on 12/09/2010

Can't wait for the divorce.

[Adrienne Williams]

12:20 AM on 12/09/2010

Didn't she get married, well, what's the news? I still think it's find to change your name if you are married, sometime traditions are a good thing. Just need to find one with my same last name! : wink