“I feel very honored, 20 years into my own career, to be standing in such a poignant place, and being celebrated in such a spectacular fashion. I honestly had no idea that this was going to be quite such a well-attended event, especially after the earthquake this morning - which frightened me quite a lot actually, I made for a door frame with my breast pump in my hand. “I am completely overwhelmed by the number of people that there are here today,” she said ( via CBS News).

In other Winslet news, the “Titanic” actress was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday. “So you wouldn’t have encouraged to change it to Rocknroll is what you’re saying.” When Degeneres asked why, Winslet replied: “Why do you think, Ellen?” Rocknroll, who legally changed his name from Abel Smith in 2008 prior to meeting Winslet, reportedly met her in 2011 when the actress was vacationing on Branson’s Necker Island (a private paradise in the British Virgin Islands).Īs the story goes, lightning set the island’s main house ablaze, making a hero of the English actress for evacuating Branson’s 90-year-old mother, Eve.Ĭontroversially, Winslet, who’s been married twice before, decided to give her son her own last name rather than Rocknroll. Winslet wed Rocknroll, the nephew of Virgin honcho Richard Branson, in December 2012. But we wanted something of the fire,” she said. and the house burned down and we survived. “And then Bear’s second name is Blaze because my husband and I met in a house fire basically. The 38-year-old said it was lovely to include her older children in the naming process. PHOTOS: Oddly fantastic celebrity baby names “Of course this time around, there’s Mia and Joe and the whole pregnancy is about what are we going to call the baby.” “We were thinking about names during the pregnancy and actually I had never - when I was pregnant with Mia, when I was pregnant with Joe - I didn’t name them before they came out because I always felt like I had to see them and see who they’re going to be,” the Oscar-winning actress told DeGeneres in an interview airing Tuesday. It turns out the name was selected by Winslet’s other children, Mia, 13, and Joe, 10, whom she had from her previous marriages to director Sam Mendes and Jim Threapleton. The “Divergent” star was appearing on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” to plug the film when the host brought up her 14-week-old’s unusual moniker. Kate Winslet is finally explaining her son’s unusual baby name: Bear Blaze Winslet, whom she welcomed in December 2013.

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