Benedict Cumberbatch Wanted To Change His Name To...

Benedict Cumberbatch is about as famous as you can get right now, but at the beginning of his career he was worried that his distinctive surname could be a barrier to success.

And the 38-year-old Oscars nominee has confessed that he was only talked out of dropping his awesome surname by his (very smart) agent.

Heat quoted him as saying: "I started off as Benedict Carlton, which is my middle name, my grandfather's name.

"Cumberbatch sounds like a fart in a bath... it is even funnier in an English accent.

"But an agent who was wiser than me told me it was a good name. People have had fun with it and they continue to!"

Anyway, you'll have to excuse us - we're just off to run the bath for a little experiment...