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Rob McElhenney Files to Legally Change His Name to ‘Rob Mac’

As he first told Variety he was pondering, Rob McElhenney has filed in L.A. to legally change his name to 'Rob Mac.'

Variety readers won’t be surprised by the news; Mac first revealed the plan in a cover story last month. Eagle-eyed reporters may have noticed that all of FX’s recent press releases for both “Sunny” and “Wrexham” have already started crediting him as “Rob Mac,” so it was all leading up to this. It had become quite the hot topic at home, where Mac’s wife, “Sunny” and “High Potential” star Kaitlin Olson, admitted that their young teens are kind of embarrassed by the idea and not quite on board just yet.

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