Ellen DeGeneres ‘predicted’ Paris Hilton’s baby’s name on TV by accident

paris hilton revealed this week the name of their first child, Phoenix Barron Hilton Reum. The heir, who was born in January of that year, had his name revealed in an episode of the businesswoman’s podcast, This Is Paris. According to her, the decision would have been made a decade ago, in secret. Or almost: at least one person guessed the choice before Hilton’s own pregnancy: the presenter Ellen DeGeneres.

In a clip shared by Ellen, she appears in an interview with Paris Hilton in January 2022. At the time, the two were talking about the possible name of the then hypothetical heir.

At the time, the socialite commented that she considered choosing the name of “a city or country” for the child. Asked about options, however, Paris did not reveal, fearing that someone would ‘steal’ her idea. Ellen then suggested: “Argentina?” Hilton reinforced: “I won’t say!” And Ellen retorted, this time correctly: “Phoenix?”, before calling her show’s commercial break.

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Through the networks, Ellen celebrated the right bet. “I guessed Paris Hilton’s baby name. What do I get? A hotel?” she joked. Check out the excerpt below:

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The choice of name, according to Hilton, would have been made more than a decade ago. This is what she herself revealed in her podcast, reading a chapter of the still unreleased memoir:

“If all goes well, while you’re reading this, Carter and I [Reum, empresário e marido de Paris Hilton] we will have already received a little boy. We plan on calling it Phoenix, a name I decided on a decade ago when I was researching cities, states and countries on a map, looking for something to go with Paris and London. [Londres, em inglês].”

The businesswoman revealed that the city of Phoenix, Arizona, is a place with “references in pop culture”, but that lately it was the chosen option for representing the bird of fire that rises from the ashes. “I want my son to grow up knowing that disaster and triumph come and go in our lives. And that should give us hope for the future.”