He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in 1992, and has played with them ever since, becoming the NFL player who has played the most games with the same team ever. He also holds the record for the number of field goals from 50 yards or more for the NFL. He is the fourth leading scorer in NFL history, and has won numerous honors, including PFWA Offensive Rookie of the Year, the PFWA Golden Toe Award, and the Ed Block Courage Award....
She was born on April 26, 1996, in Bellevue, Washington. Despite being born into one of the world’s wealthiest families, her parents worked to give her and her siblings (Rory John Gates and Phoebe Gates) a relatively normal upbringing, emphasizing education, hard work, and philanthropy. Jennifer attended Lakeside School in Seattle, the same private school her father had attended. She later went on to Stanford University, where she majored in human biology, graduating in 2018....
Early Life Jeremy Philip Northam was born on December 1st, 1961, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. Raised alongside four elder siblings, Jeremy’s mother was a potter and an economics professor, while his father was a literature and theatre professor who specialized in the works of Henrik Johan Ibsen. Although Jeremy later stated that his family was not wealthy, he lived in a loving family that supported his artistic endeavors. After attending secondary schools in Cambridge Bristol, Northam enrolled at Bedford College in London....
In 2005 Taylor defeated Bernard Hopkins to win The Ring, WNBC, WBA (Super), WBO, and IBF Middleweight titles. After a record of 27-0-1 he lost his first fight to Kelly Pavlik in 2007. Taylor’s last fight was a win over Juan Carlos Candelo in December 2013 to bring his record to 32-4-1. He is scheduled to face Sam Soliman for the IBF Middleweight title. Jermain married WNBA player Erica Taylor and the couple has three daughters....
In 1982, the BBC approached him, and invited him to create a Chinese cooking show. The show, “Ken Hom’s Chinese Cookery”, was a huge success, and spawned a bestselling cookbook that is still widely used today. Since then, he has appeared on multiple shows, and hosted various food related specials for channels around the world. He has written twenty cookbooks, and has his own line of packaged foods and woks....
Laura Clery was born in Downers Grove, Illinois in July 1986. As an actress she starred as Allison Stark on the television series ‘Til Death from 2008 to 2010. Clery starred on the TV series Disaster Date from 2009 to 2010. From 2013 to 2014 she starred as Laura on the series Hungry. Laura Clery has also appeared in other films, episodes of TV series, and shorts including Stranded, The Hitchhiking Game, How Deep Is the Ocean, OB/GY Anne, The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks, The League, 2 Jacks, 2 Broke Girls, The Longest Week, The Big Leaf, and more....
Purdue Pharma has found itself under fire in recent years. Allegations are being lobbed at them that said they purposefully misbranded OxyContin as less addictive than it actually was. Deaths from painkiller abuse has continued to rise. Now, the mayor of one small working class town – Everett, Washington—has decided to take on Purdue Pharma directly in an effort to stem the devastation opioid abuse has caused in his town....
She began her acting career in the late 1980s, appearing in various television shows such as “Who’s the Boss?,” “Cheers,” and “Saved by the Bell.” Remini also had recurring roles on “Fired Up,” “Saved by the Bell: The College Years,” and “Family Tools.” In 2013, Remini made headlines when she publicly left the Church of Scientology, of which she had been a member since childhood. She subsequently released a memoir titled “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology” in 2015, detailing her experiences within the organization....
Early Life Ming-Na Wen was born November 20, 1963, in Coloane, Macau. Her mother, Lin Chan Wen, moved to Macau in the 1950s from Suzhou, China, to escape communism. Her father is of Malaysian Chinese descent. Ming-Na has an older brother, Jonathan, and a younger brother, Leong. Wen’s parents divorced when she was an infant, and she moved with her brother and mother to Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, Ming-Na attended a Catholic school, and her mother worked three jobs to provide for the family....
One of the heirs to the extended Pritzker family fortune, he spent most of his career as the head of Hyatt’s new hotel development efforts. It was in 2009 that he left the day-to-day operations in the family business and officially retired. A loud opponent of death penalty, he teamed up with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and DFS cofounder Chuck Feeney in an effort to repeal the capital punishment in California in the 2012 election....
Early Life Nicholas Thompson Swisher was born on November 25, 1980, in Columbus, Ohio. He is the son of Lillian Marie (Vaught) Malizia and Steve Swisher, a former major league catcher. Nick was a successful basketball, football, and baseball player during high school and went on to attend Ohio State University, where he was named Big Ten Freshman of the Year in 2000 for his first year on their baseball team....
The Koontzes designed the large mansion themselves back in the early 2000s, and it’s never been listed publicly for sale, which is why visual materials on the property are limited. But eagle-eyed reporters have spotted such features as two winding driveways, a huge, partially underground garage, a guest parking lot on the roof (!), and lots of trees, formal gardens, and two infinity pools outside. As previously mentioned, the $50 million sale is a record for the Newport Coast community but depending on how you crunch the numbers, it is also a record for the whole of Orange County as well....
Quvenzhane Wallis was born in Houma, Louisiana in August 2003. She has authored the books Shai & Emmie Star in Break an Egg!, A Night Out with Mama, Shai & Emmie Star in Dancy Pants!, and Shai & Emmi Star in To the Rescue!. Wallis starred as Kyra on the television Black-ish in 2019. She starred as Hushpuppy in the movie Beasts of the Southern Wild in 2012. Quvenzhane Wallis starred as Margaret Northup in the film 12 Years a Slave in 2013....
Today Kaplan works as an active venture investor and has put money into over 40 early stage companies. Some of his investments include UrgentRx, mPATH, and Tapiture. At 27 years old he started a charity concert called The Justice Ball which has raised more than $6.5 million. According to some reports, Kaplan is worth as much as $400 million. These reports are unverifiable. According to another report, Kaplan is not worth more than $30 million....
Branson laid the situation bare in an open letter to Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia’s employees, citing “the severe uncertainty surrounding travel today” as a potentially fatal blow to the companies. Branson had previously pumped a reported $250 million into his various companies under the Virgin banner in order to keep them afloat, but now he’s seeking governmental loans, and he’s putting up his island in order “to raise as much money against the island as possible to save as many jobs as possible around the group....
From 1999 to 2000 he starred as Willis Barry on the TV series The Hoop Life. He has starred in several films including Hurry Sundown, Last of the Mobile Hot Shots, Carter’s Army, Trouble Man, Aaron Loves Angela, Just an Old Sweet Song, Airport ‘77, Fast-Walking, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Passenger 57, Posse, Fled, and Seventeen Again. He has also appeared in many theater productions and in episodes of the TV series Marcus Welby, M....
Roman Coppola was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France in April 1965. He is the son of Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Neil. Roman Coppola is related to Carmine Coppola, Italia Pennino, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Gia Coppola, and Nicolas Cage. He appeared as a boy in the films The Godfather and The Godfather Part II. Roman Coppola was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for co-writing the movie Moonrise Kingdom with Wes Anderson....
Russell Hantz is from Dayton, Texas. Survivor’s debut was in May 2000, and it has captured the hearts of television viewers for dozens of seasons. The contestants, aka Castaways, are left in a remote location and compete against each other as the environment to be the “Sole Survivor”, who wins one million dollars. The survivors have completed in such far-away places as; Guatemala, Samoa, Fiji, and the Philippines.
Ryan Peake was born in Hanna, Alberta, Canada in March 1973. The band formed in 1995 and released the their debut studio album Curb in 1996 and the album The State in 1998. Their album Silver Side Up was released in 2001 and reached #1 in Canada, Austria, Ireland, New Zealand, and the UK and #2 in the US. Their albums The Long Road in 2003, All the Right Reasons in 2005, Dark Horse in 2008, and Here and Now in 2011 were all highly successful and reached #1 in Canada....
In live tournament poker, Farha’s earnings were closing in on three million dollars in 2010. He is Harrah’s Las Vegas casino spokesperson, has appeared on four seasons of “High Stakes Poker” on Game Show Network, and appeared in the 2007 movie “Lucky You” as himself. Farha co-wrote the book “Farha on Omaha” as a strategy guide for playing Omaha poker. He continues to work on his second book and the development of a reality TV show dedicated to poker....
