The name Fergie’s been bandied about a bit over the last few years and it is starting to get a little confusing. The manager of Man United falls out of his Herve Leger bandage dress? The lead singer from the Black Eyed Peas upsets the Queen again? Prince Andrew’s ex makes a multi-million pound bid for a Argentinian footballer? Okay, maybe that last one isn’t completely out of the realms of possibility but you get the idea – not everyone in the world can be called Fergie.
One Fergie – Stacy Ferguson of BEP fame, to be specific – decided to stake her claim on the natty moniker once and for all and trademark the name for herself. Given that Fergies tend to be feisty by nature, the others out there weren’t about to take this lying down. Her Royal Fergieness, Sarah Ferguson, told Piers Morgan on his CNN show how she got straight on the phone to sort the matter out: “I rang her up and I said, ‘You know, you’re trying to copyright Fergie. You’ve got an album called The Duchess. Excuse me, give me something!” You tell her, Fergie!
Apparently, this was met with the rather unexciting response of “Oh, hello”. And then Fergie agreed to come and sing at Fergie’s charity event and they all lived Fergily ever after. Which is a shame because we were hoping this might be the start of the War of the Fergies. The word Fergie has now lost all meaning.