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Thank God Ryan Reynolds has stopped playing the “I’m Not Going To Tell You My Baby’s Name” Game. It was getting boring anyway, because A) all of us believed E! News’ “source” who said the baby is named James and B) Ryan played the game too often and everyone stopped covering it. So… what better way to get some headlines than just coming out and confirming the name. The baby is named… James. Which we already knew. But it’s nice to a have a confirmation at long last.

Ryan Reynolds confirmed the moniker on NBC’s Today in an interview with Willie Geist. Of course, he didn’t admit to it without making some hilarious jokes first.

“You did say a few months ago, before she was born, that you were going to name her Excalibur Anaconda Reynolds,” Geist said. “So can we call her Anna at least—short for Anaconda?”

Reynolds confirmed to Geist that he and his Gossip Girl-starring wife didn’t go with Excalibur, but instead went with a more…seasonal choice.

“That is not the child’s name,” Reynolds said, dead seriously. “It’s Butternut Summersquash.”

Of course, he couldn’t keep up the jig for long. “It’s James,” the new dad finally admitted. “Everyone knows.”

[From E! News]

Butternut Summersquash? That’s totally what Blake wants to name their SON, people. The second daughter will be named Anthony Heirloom Tomato (Tony Tomato for short).

So, now that we’ve got the confirmation, can we all roll our eyes at naming this baby “James”? They don’t even say if she’s going to go by a nickname, like Jamie or Jimmy or Jammy. Let’s just call her Sweet Baby James.

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