The Truth About Shemar Moore

It's not hyperbole to state that Shemar Moore had an unorthodox childhood. As he explained in a 2013 "Shemar Moore Unplugged" interview, he was born in Oakland, California, but only lived there for about half of his first year of life. When his mixed-raced parents (his mother is white, his father Black) split up when he was still an infant, his mother was able to secure a teaching job in Europe. "So at six months old I left the country, and I lived overseas until I was six-and-a-half years old," said Moore. The first country they lived in was Denmark, where the future star spent the next three years. 

"Technically, my first language was Danish," said Moore, admitting that as the years have passed he's retained next to none of his Danish language skills. "I don't speak a word of it today," he quipped, but clarified that he did remember a single Danish word: flytte, which translates into English as to move or relocate. 

As for why that's the sole Danish word to remain stuck in his memory, Moore theorized it was because "my mother was kicking my backside and trying to get me to do this and do that, and she was always saying, "Flytte, flytte, flytte Shemar, flytte' — for whatever reason I remember the word flytte," he recalled. 

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