Matt_Probert - 3:00 pm on Mar 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

Do you really want to know?

Okay, I was born Paul Farwig. But my mother and father deserted me at birth, and I was adopted by a couple who after two daughters were unable to have any more children, and desperately wanted a son. They appropriately renamed me 'Matthew' (God's gift) and naturally with adoption my name changed to their name, Probert. Hence I always use my real name (and never a nickname), Matt or Matthew Probert out of respect to the couple who saved this abandoned child from an otherwise dire life in children's homes - to use a pseudonym or nickname would be disrespectful to them.

Matt