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Dylan Efron, who won The Traitors and finished fourth on Dancing With the Stars this year, revealed on E!'s Hot Goss that his real name is Nicholas Dylan Harrison Efron.
However, he stated that he has "axed off" his first name and prefers only Dylan.
"That's my first name, and everything gets bumped up," the 33-year-old told hosts Eyal Booker and Lonnie Marts, adding that he now considers Harrison his genuine middle name.
But his moniker is supposedly so secret that his friend and former The Traitors castmate Rob "Boston Rob" Mariano, who co-stars with him in the new online series Everything's A Competition, didn't believe him.
"Nobody ever heard of that. He's never told anybody," Boston Rob said on Hot Goss. "I don't even think that's true."
Dylan, however, is not the only one who has a separate persona. So, what could fans be astonished to discover about Rob?
"The fact that he's a girl dad, the way that he talks to his girls—that's the side that people forget because he's known as a cutthroat player," Dylan told me. "I just know he's a friend who'll answer the phone when I call. He's that type of person. You can notice when he is with his children."
Indeed, Rob deliberately contrasts his reality TV character from his real-life persona.
"I'm able to separate the games—from the cutthroat and doing what I have to do—and real life," the Survivor champion stated. "In these games, I will backstab you and do anything I need to do to win. But in real life, I'll go to bat for the people that are with me."
In fact, he'll even share his playing technique with his buddies, including Dylan, during his time on DWTS.
"I was calling him every show day, but we had a lot of strategies," Dylan admitted, with Rob outlining one of his ideas that Dylan didn't follow: "You've got to start befriending the other participants, especially the ones who aren't as good, since they're going to be eliminated. And when they do, you must attract them so that their supporters will begin voting for you.
While Dylan did not win the Mirrorball Trophy, he is not the only one who changed his name to pursue a career in Hollywood. After all, his brother Zac Efron was named Zachary David Alexander Efron but, goes by his nickname professionally.
