TikToker Francis Bourgeois gives Louis Theroux new reason for using fake name YouTube: BBC\/Louis TherouxTikTok star Francis Bourgeois has told Louis Theroux why he uses a pseudonym on social media rather than his real name, and it\u2019s a slightly different answer than before. If you\u2019ve spent enough time on TikTok over the past year or so, you\u2019ve very likely come across a post or two from Francis Bourgeois \u2013 TikTok\u2019s resident trainspotter from the UK. The TikToker shot to popularity with his videos from train stations around the South of England as he, joyfully, displayed his love of trains for millions of fans. He\u2019s an expert in all things locomotive, but his name isn\u2019t actually Francis. His real name, as some have discovered, is Luke Nicolson, and he\u2019s previously explained that he started to use a pseudonym in university when applying for placements \u2013 seeing as potential employees wouldn\u2019t be looking up his real name. Well, he\u2019s now got a somewhat new answer. Francis Bourgeois tells Louis Theroux why he uses a fake name The TikTok star was a part of the new season of Louis Theroux interviews on BBC, where they talked about one of Francis\u2019 other loves \u2013 scooting. During a bit of downtime, the iconic interviewer quizzed him on why he going by the name Francis even though plenty of people know him as Luke. \u201cThrough my experience in school, I knew that the perception of trainspotting at the time wasn\u2019t cool and I\u2019d never shown my friends that side of me,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, in using a pseudonym, I was able to feel a bit more protected and that\u2019s why I just let these videos go.\u201d Timestamp of 2:00 The Brit also added that why he isn\u2019t playing a \u201ccharacter\u201d for his videos, and his love of trains is authentic, the name has a bit more of a \u201cring to it\u201d than Luke Nicolson. His success has been pretty meteoric, and he\u2019s even gotten his own TV show off the back of it where, of course, trainspotting is involved. So, the Francis Bourgious name isn\u2019t going away anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikToker Francis Bourgeois gives Louis Theroux new reason for using fake name YouTube: BBC\/Louis TherouxTikTok star Francis Bourgeois has told Louis Theroux why he uses a pseudonym on social media rather than his real name, and it\u2019s a slightly different answer than before. If you\u2019ve spent enough time on TikTok over the past year or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}