ELVIS Presley is preparing to take on a new enterprise - by changing his name to Jean-Luc Picard after the starship captain.

Confused? You would be unless you knew that THIS Elvis Aaron Presley used to be plain Shaun Yates, from Blackburn.

Jobless Shaun once changed his name by deed poll to Elvis Aaron Presley.

And after that, he swapped once again, to call himself "T King".

"Elvis is still number one but I'm more into Star Trek at the moment," he said. "I've been to some Star Trek conventions. I've spent nearly £200 ordering a suit, a cap and T-shirt and a phaser. I just think it's a really good programme, though I prefer the Next Generation to the new Voyager series - they've got better weapons and that."

Shaun-Elvis-Jean- Luc currently lives in Queens Park flats but is moving soon.

However, he has no immediate plans to "baldly" follow in the footsteps of the Star Trek captain by shaving his head.

And he rejects criticism from people who think he has had too much of the old Romulan falling-down water.

"I'm normal," he says. "I'm more down to earth than anyone I know,"

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