Rob McElhenney Defends ‘Type of Douchey’ Identify Change to Rob Mac

Final week, the It is At all times Sunny In Philadelphia actor — who was born Robert McElhenney III — filed paperwork to formally change his identify; the method is now underway, per TMZ.

Following some criticism and confusion on-line, the actor then took to X on Tuesday to clarify his determination, in a video he captioned, “I mentioned what I mentioned.”

“I’ll dedicate precisely one minute to this. Begin the clock,” he started within the footage, spending that precise period of time revealing why he made the choice he did.

“Sure, I am shortening my identify to Rob Mac, largely a stage identify, however I digress. Is it type of douchey? Certain. However the period of time I’ve wasted making an attempt to get folks to both say or spell my identify accurately, is actually days of my life,” he informed viewers. “Belief me, I counted it up.”

“It additionally means 1000’s of you could have had minutes of your life stolen by me, due to my final identify, together with this one,” he then quipped.

Whereas he mentioned McElhenney is a household identify he shares together with his family members, including that there is “heritage” behind it, he then added, “it isn’t even actually our f–king identify.”

As completely different variations of spellings his ancestors have used flashed throughout the display screen, he mentioned “many generations” have modified it through the years, claiming “the present one was simply given to my ancestor by a authorities official who determined this was now the spelling.”

“Occasions have modified and most of the people already name me Rob Mac anyway. My household is aware of me and loves me, no matter what number of syllables I’ve and that is the one factor that I actually care about,” he then defined.

“There are such a lot of issues happening on the earth and it is a foolish one to waste your time on. Truthfully, name me no matter you need,” he mentioned, earlier than exhibiting pictures of different celebrities who go by names they weren’t born with — together with Woman Gaga and Jamie Foxx.

“Perhaps we simply preserve it easy and check out Rob Mac, let’s have a look at the way it goes,” he concluded.

His video comes after a current Selection interview together with his spouse, Kaitlin Olson, began to resurface this week — by which they mentioned his plan to alter his identify again in Might.

On the time, she mentioned, “The youngsters are actually not glad about it, as a result of they’ve that final identify. And so do I, legally!”

That wasn’t the one situation she introduced up within the interview, both, claiming the 2 have been additionally “preventing” about whether or not or not they might present their youngsters’s faces off to the general public.

“We would talked about not exhibiting their faces,” Olsen mentioned. “I keep in mind going by way of puberty — no child must be seen publicly earlier than they’re able to. Everybody’s acquired their insecurities, and it isn’t their fault that we selected this path and that we’re well-known. Rob went rogue and put them in a f–king documentary! I am nonetheless sad about that.”

He, nonetheless, defended himself, saying, “The youngsters like it. I’ve a distinct perspective. Tens of millions of individuals the world over say, ‘We love to look at them!'”

She was fast to hit again, including, “I do not care about them — I care about my children! We’re nonetheless preventing about it.”