This revelation might make you go, “Whoa!”
Joey Lawrence shouldn’t be Joey Lawrence’s actual title. The actor, greatest identified for roles on ’90s sitcoms Blossom and Brotherly Love, spoke out about how he has been utilizing his center title as a final title all through his profession, whereas his brothers, Matthew Lawrence and Andrew Lawrence, have adopted go well with.
Joey was born Joseph Lawrence Mignogna III. He was named after the siblings’ dad and paternal grandfather. Talking at a panel at 90s Con on the Connecticut Conference Heart in Hartford, Conn. March 28, the 48-year outdated famous that within the ’80s, when he started appearing, he was instructed, “Nobody can pronounce Mignogna. That is not a reputation individuals will say.”
“At present, issues like which are celebrated,” he added, per Parade. “However within the ’80s, it was like, ‘We have to water this down.’ The silent Gs…They had been like, ‘We have to go along with one thing slightly extra bland.’ So that they’re like, ‘Let’s name him Joey Lawrence,’ after which that’s simply what we did. It simply made sense.”
