Vin Diesel named his newborn daughter after Paul Walker

Vin Diesel
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Fast & Furious star Vin Diesel has found a lasting way to pay tribute to his deceased co-star Paul Walker. On an appearance on The Today Show, Diesel revealed that he named his newborn daughter Pauline in honor of Walker.

"There's no other person that I'm thinking about as I'm cutting this umbilical cord," said Diesel to host Natalie Morales. "I knew [Walker] was there and I felt like, you know, a way to keep his memory a part of my memory, a part of my world."

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Scott Meslow

Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.