It’s Official We Have the Male “Karen” Name

If you're a guy, and you have "few things to say to the manager" then you're the "male Karen." I told a story on the air recently about my wife's Airbnb mix up and Roy couldn't get over it! Roy was having a male Karen moment. He has them quite often actually.

Not sure what a Karen is? Here's a good example taken from Urban Dictionary. "A Karen would sue the local city council after they installed a new STOP sign that hides the sun from her window for two minutes a day."

That definition is as accurate as it gets people! Karens will always butt in!

We've all heard the male version of Karen: Chad, Chaz, Eric, Steve... But those didn't click with me. We needed a better name, then it came to me. Allen!! That's Roy's middle name. Roy complains he blows the whistle, he has a list of people who have crossed him.

So moving forward the male "Karen," will be Allen!!

Speaking "Karens..."

Birdwatcher Christian Cooper, known for the "Central Park Karen" incident, is set to premiere the TV show "Extraordinary Birder” on National Geographic. The six-episode series, starting on June 17th, features Cooper traveling across the US to observe unique bird species.

Christian explains “‘The fun of birding is, you never know what you’re going to get… This is what birding is about." Expect to see him kayaking, walking over rope bridges, and hiking to find the most beautiful birds.

The show focuses on the adventure and beauty of birding, without mentioning the 2020 incident. Meanwhile, Amy Cooper, the woman involved in the "Central Park Karen" incident, continues to face consequences, including being fired from her job. The charges against her for filing a false police report were dropped in 2021 after completing therapy courses.

Some stars have names that are recognizable all over the globe, so we assume we know how to say them correctly … but we’re often wrong. It turns out, according to People, fans have been pronouncing many famous names incorrectly over the years, so much so that the celebrities themselves are stepping up to set us straight.

It happened just last week, when Raven-Symoné took to TikTok to reveal that people have been mispronouncing her name wrong. Since her days as a childhood star on Disney, the actress’ name has been said “Raven Sim-moan,” but her video clarifies it’s actually “See-mon-ye Like Yay.”

These are some of the other celeb names we’ve been saying wrong all this time:

In a Q&A with fans, the singer let us know we’ve been mispronouncing her name. It’s “Uh-dale,” not “Ah-dell,” she explained after complimenting a fan who nailed it, noting, “She said my name perfectly.”

The actress also low-key corrected fans about her name when she made her debut on TikTok, highlighting that we’ve been stressing the wrong syllable of her last name. She pronounces it “Lo-hen,” instead of “LO-han”

Fans were shocked when the model and cookbook author tweeted a video about the real way to say her last name. Rather than “tee-gen,” like we thought, it’s actually “tie-gen.” “I’m tired of living this lie,” she says in the clip. “It’s ‘tie-gen.’”

During an interview, the star let us know it’s “zen-day-ah,” instead of “zen-die-yah.”

While talking to “Showbiz Tonight,” the singer set the record straight, explaining that while most people had been saying it “ree-ah-nah,” it’s actually “ree-ann-ah.”

This star threw us when she pronounced her own last name as "grand-ee," not "grand-ay" during an interview.

We had no idea we were saying his name wrong until the actor pronounced it “Lowt-ner,” instead of “Lot-ner” in a TikTok for “E! News”

Think it’s “say-fried?” Nope, it’s “sigh-fred,” according to the actress herself.

This Swedish last name is a little tricky, but most folks say it “jill-en-hal.” However, on “Conan,” the star shared that it’s actually ‘yeel-en-hall,” joking that the only places it’s pronounced correctly are Sweden and Ikea.