Chubby Checker performs a free concert July 9, 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Chubby Checker performs a free concert July 9, 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

(EW.com) -- In the late 1950s, a young singer called Ernest Evans began going by the name of Chubby Checker, a handle bestowed in part by Dick Clark's wife (seriously!). Because it was a less vulgar time, nobody thought to warn young Chubby that his new moniker was just begging to be used as a lame double entendre (example: "Chubby Checker? I barely know 'er!").

source of story and to read more http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/15/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/chubby-checker-app-suit/index.html?hpt=en_c1

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