Ned RocknRoll? It’s Wolf Winslet now...

TO RICHARD Branson he’s ‘nephew’. When he worked for his uncle’s space tourism company Virgin Galactic, he was the ‘head of astronaut experience’. To Hollywood star Kate Winslet he’s ‘husband’ and to their son he’s simply ‘Dad’. But what on earth do the rest of us call the artist formerly known as Ned RocknRoll?

Do try to keep up, but I can reveal that Kate Winslet’s eccentric husband of nine years (they’re pictured together above) has just changed his name by deed poll for the third time – to Edward Wolf Winslet Abel Smith. Quite the mouthful, but perhaps he just likes getting his money’s worth.

Originally named Ned Abel Smith, the dashing 43-year-old adopted the moniker Ned RocknRoll in the mid-noughties when he was going through a rebellious phase. Two years ago he changed it again, to the comparatively normal-sounding Edward Abel Smith.

But it seems he wanted to move on again, and has now decided to take his 45-year-old wife’s surname to match their seven-year-old son Bear’s birth certificate. My source says: ‘He simply wanted to have the same name as his son Bear Blaze Winslet. He wanted to include the family name shared by his wife and son. He’s maturing...’