A 26-year old man named Russell who hated Brussels sprouts all his life has decide to get even with the food he admonish most by changing his last name to - Sprout.

Now officially known as Russell Sprout, claims that he had always been called Sprout by his friends who eventually dared me to change my surname to Sprout.

"In the end, I thought why not? I dropped my middle name, which was James, so I am just Russell Sprout," said Russell of Southampton. "But I have got rid of the chance of having a rubbish nickname now because everyone just calls me Sprout and I like that."

For Russell, this was the second time he had changed his name.

In 2003, Russell, whose original surname was De'Ath, decided to change it to Bridges, which he picked up randomly from the phone book.