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Sunny Hostin Says Nancy Grace ‘Struggled’ to Pronounce Her Spanish Name ‘Every Take’ On Air and Changed It: ‘It Was So Crazy. She Couldn’t Get It’
Sunny Hostin says Nancy Grace changed her name for television because Grace "struggled" to pronounce her Spanish birth name.
“The View” host Sunny Hostin revealed on the PBS documentary series “Finding Your Roots” that Nancy Grace is responsible for her stage name. Hostin added that “all of a sudden, people remembered who I was” as soon as her professional name was changed to “Sunny.” She noticed her “career took off” in a way it hadn’t when she was using her Spanish birth name, which says “something about our world” and how it views minorities. Elsewhere during the “Finding Your Roots” episode, “The View” host learned that some of her family is actually from Spain and were slaveholders.
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