Bruce Jenner to reveal female name to Diane Sawyer

Bruce Jenner has been an Olympic champion, a reality television personality as part of the Kardashian clan and now, at age 65, will become a woman.

Bruce Jenner revealed the name he plans to use after his transition from male to female in a taped interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer that is scheduled to air during May sweeps.

According to the New York Post’s Page Six, Jenner shared the name in the interview, but now plans to delay his transition in the wake of a fatal crash he was involved in last weekend.

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“The accident is now taking precedence over his personal journey to become a woman,” a source told Radar Online.

Jenner is also filming a docu-series to air on E!

“Bruce is giving all of his time and energy right now into helping out with the investigation and in making sure that there is peace for those close to the deceased,” the source said.

Jenner first entered the national consciousness in 1976, when he won the gold medal in the decathlon at the Montreal Olympics with a then-record score of 8,616 points and the unofficial title of the world’s best athlete.

That came after a 10th place finish in the Munich Olympics four years earlier.

After his Olympic triumph, he wanted to cash in, giving up his amateur status—yes, this was a thing at the time—in order to sign an endorsement deal with Wheaties.

He was also drafted by the NBA’s Kansas City Kings late in the 1977 draft, even though he hadn’t played basketball since high school—although he did make a basket in the film Can’t Stop the Music, a disco-era comedy released in 1980 about The Village People that earned him a nomination for the not-so-coveted Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor.

He also appeared in several made-for-TV movies and was a semi-regular cast member of the police series CHiPs, guest starring while show headliner Erik Estrada was embroiled in a contract dispute with the NBC and MGM.

Since 2007, Jenner has been most well known as the patriarch in the E! reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians, wherein overprivileged children have grown up to be celebrities without having any discernible talent other than an innate ability to really annoy the beejeezus out of most people.

Jenner married Kris Kardashian in April 1991 and the couple announced their separation in October 2013. Their divorce becomes official in March and must have been terrific, since, well, he’s changing teams in its wake.

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