Kate Winslet‘s hubby Edward Abel Smith will never ever release this surname.
During the Jan. 14 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the Titanic starlet described why her partner altered his name.
“So his birth name is Abel Smith,” the Oscar winner stated. “And as time went by and Ned became Ned—who is quite an original personality—he just decided at one point in his life to just change his name to Rocknroll. Ned Rocknroll. So when I met him, his name was Ned Rocknroll. This is completely true.”
However, not everybody took kindly to the choice. Winslet kept in mind the name was popular in America, however in England, “not so much.”
“When he changed his name to Rocknroll, I don’t think he had anticipated what might happen if he should have a girlfriend whose name was Kate Winslet and who was quite well-known and therefore the press might kind of not react so well to the fact that she had this boyfriend called then Rocknroll,” she remembered. “So, it was a little tricky.”
