1:10am Tuesday 16th March 2010
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James Corden found himself on the receiving end of jokes as a schoolboy - when word got round that his middle name is Kimberly.
The 31-year-old Gavin And Stacey star said the unusual moniker has been passed down the generations, telling the latest issue of Heat magazine: "Literally every man in my family has it - it's a tradition."
He went on: "For ages I pretended it was Karl, but my sister was going out with one of my mates and told him, then he told the whole school - it wasn't great."
But the comic actor and writer learned how to deflect teasing as a youngster by making people laugh.
He said: "I realised quite early that, being this little chubby lad, I was a target for the lads in the older years.
"But I found that if you just made them laugh, they'd accept you. I probably used the same tactics then as I do now - that's the sad thing!"
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