I’ve been hearing all over that Paulina Rubio has changed her name to P. Blonde. WTF?

I first heard it in the background on some Telemundo show, so I Googled it and a lo and behold:

En los agradecimientos que Pau firma se autonombra P. Blonde —”muy chic”— al estilo JLo.

Maybe I just hate these celebrity nicknames — JLo, P Diddy, Big Daddy — but what was wrong with Paulina Rubio? It’s a nice enough name. And the gangsta-ness of the “P” gets a bit diluted by the adjective “blonde”, which conjures up images of Anna Nicole Smith or Marilyn Monroe. Real badass.

Meanwhile, in Mexico everyone is hating on Pau for having recently developed a fake Spanish accent. Her CD is number one is Spain now (selling 80,000 copies in just one week), so perhaps adopting the local lexicon helped that along.

On another random note, and I know I’m probably late to the game, did you guys know that Pau was also doing Pro-Active Solution commercials a la Jessica Simpson?