Movie-loving mother names three children in honour of one star

FILM fan Kerry Turner loves Nicolas Cage – so much so that she has named each one of her three children in honour of the Hollywood actor.

Eight years ago, she called her first child Shelby, after the classic sports car driven by her hero in the blockbuster movie Gone In Sixty Seconds.

Next, Kerry persuaded her partner to let her call their son Memphis – the name of Cage’s character in the same film – when she gave birth again two years ago.

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But the 29-year-old finally came unstuck on New Year’s Day after dad Graham Woodhouse dug in his heels and refused to name their latest addition Arizona, after the star’s 1987 hit comedy Raising Arizona.

The pair eventually compromised on the name Mason, one of the major characters in the Cage’s 1996 action movie The Rock, after the baby boy arrived at Rotherham District General.

Kerry said: “I doubt that I’ll ever to get to see Nicolas Cage walking down the street living in Rotherham, but knowing that all our kids have a connection to him is probably the next best thing to meeting him in the flesh.”

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