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Oprah Winfrey shocks Keke Palmer with real name reveal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Palmer interviewed the legendary TV icon on her Baby, This Is Keke Palmer <\/em>show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Winfrey has revealed numerous details about her past recently, including opening up about a key change to her talk show\u2019s iconic 2004 car giveaway episode.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Sorry to this government name, but Keke Palmer<\/a> didn\u2019t know who you were until this moment.<\/p>\n The Hustlers<\/em> actress reacted with great surprise upon learning talk show icon Oprah Winfrey<\/a>\u2019s birth name, with the pair discussing the TV personality\u2019s official biblically inspired title on a new episode of the Baby, This Is Keke Palmer<\/em> show (below).<\/p>\n \u201cNow wait a minute, I found out that your name was originally Orpah,\u201d Palmer told Winfrey, who confirmed that \u201cit was Orpah, from the Bible. Ruth, first chapter, 14th verse.\u201d<\/p>\n Winfrey recalled that she was named after \u201cthat whole Ruth and Naomi story\u201d in the Bible, before Palmer asked what made her change her name to her celebrity moniker.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not what made me. <\/em>I was a kid, and nobody knew how to spell it. It turned out, on my birth certificate, it\u2019s Or-pah<\/em>, then people started calling me Oprah,\u201d Winfrey recalled.<\/p>\n She added, \u201cIt\u2019s just a difference between the P being before the R or after the R. Once they started with Oprah, that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n Winfrey admitted that she also \u201cdidn\u2019t learn until I was probably 20 or something that this isn\u2019t really my name,\u201d with Palmer asking her if her birth certificate says \u201cOrpah\u201d or \u201cOprah,\u201d with Winfrey confirming that the former is printed on the official document.<\/p>\n Palmer and Winfrey\u2019s discussion previously made headlines after the actress joked with Winfrey about her abandoned pursuit of singing, which included the launch of the often-meme\u2019d theme song, \u201cRun On,\u201d<\/a> which once accompanied The Oprah Winfrey Show<\/em><\/a>for a brief period in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n \u201cGirl, please,\u201d Winfrey, 72, told 32-year-old Palmer after the actress sang a line of the song to her amid the interview. \u201cThat is one of the mistakes of my career.\u201d<\/p>\n Oprah Winfrey and Keke Palmer on \u2018Baby, This Is Keke Palmer\u2019Credit: YouTube<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Palmer told Winfrey that the song \u201cwasn\u2019t bad,\u201d though Winfrey pushed back: \u201cYou know it was bad,\u201d she stressed. \u201cYou\u2019re just saying that cause you\u2019re looking at me. It was pretty bad.\u201d<\/p>\n Winfrey was also in the press earlier this week for an interview she did with Vanity Fair,<\/em><\/a> in which she revealed a key change to her talk show\u2019s memorable 2004 car giveaway episode.<\/p>\n Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our <\/em><\/strong>EW Dispatch newsletter<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAnd it occurred to me, and I said to the producers, who were up all night long, actually, for this show, \u2018We\u2019ve got to tape the keys in the boxes because the first thing people are going to do is shake the box,\u2019\u201d Winfrey recalled of the installment, which saw her gift the entire studio audience with keys to a brand new car. \u201cI don\u2019t know if people know this, but we had already given out 11 cars. We\u2019d given out 11 cars on this particular day. There was this 12th car, there was supposedly one car left, and everybody was thinking they were going to be that one person.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch Winfrey and Palmer discuss the talk show legend\u2019s real name in the interview video above.<\/p>\n