{"id":1023993,"date":"2022-03-17T06:01:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T06:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/17\/14-celebrities-who-were-forced-to-go-by-new-stage-names\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T06:01:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T06:01:50","slug":"14-celebrities-who-were-forced-to-go-by-new-stage-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/17\/14-celebrities-who-were-forced-to-go-by-new-stage-names\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Celebrities Who Were Forced To Go By New Stage Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><i>New Jack City<\/i>\u2018s Vanessa Williams told Entertainment Weekly that she didn\u2019t see an issue with it because \u201cthere\u2019s enough work for both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The confusion actually began before they were famous. In the \u201980s, they applied for the same musical theater program at NYU.<\/p>\n<p>However, things got even more confusing when Vanessa L. Williams starred in the TV show version of <i>Soul Food<\/i> and Vanessa Estelle Williams starred in the movie version of <i>Soul Food<\/i>. As a result, SAG decided, since both women had established careers under the name Vanessa Williams, they could both be credited as simply Vanessa Williams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jack City\u2018s Vanessa Williams told Entertainment Weekly that she didn\u2019t see an issue with it because \u201cthere\u2019s enough work for both of us.\u201d The confusion actually began before they were famous. In the \u201980s, they applied for the same musical theater program at NYU. However, things got even more confusing when Vanessa L. Williams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}