Celebrity Sightings – Feb 2018
There’s just no better time to enjoy the outdoors than right now. The breeze is cool, calm and we have been at a perfect 73 degrees the last few weeks. The evening drops to a chill 45- to 50-degrees which still gives us a slight reminder of winter. I know I’ve been enjoying my tank top days and sweater evenings.
Santa Clarita resident Stephanie Struyck had the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors and hit the greens at the golf course with country superstar Tracey Lawrence. The award-winning musician has sold 13 million albums during his illustrious career, with 22 songs on the Billboard Top 10 charts. Some of his songs include “Sticks and Stones,” “Paint Me a Birmingham,” “Alibis” and “Can’t Break It to My Heart,” to name a few. Lawrence was born in Atlanta, Texas, and lived most of his early life in Foreman, Arkansas. He wrote his first song when he was four years old. His mother had to write down the lyrics for him. He played in his first band at the age of sixteen and later attended Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, Arkansas, where he was a member of the Epsilon Kappa chapter of Sigma Pi Fraternity. In 1990 Lawrence left Arkansas for Nashville, Tennessee where he planned to find success as a recording artist. Lawrence worked as an ironworker and in phone sales while he tried to break into the music business. He began participating in talent shows and earned enough money to live on. He began working with Wanda Collier, a music publisher, doing some shows and co-writing some songs, while learning his way around the music scene in Nashville. He had a gig at the Bluebird Cafe and met Wayne Edwards who became his manager. Lawrence got his big break with the album “Sticks and Stones.” Since then he has sold more than 5 million albums and has also had 11 chart-topping hits.
Another group of guys enjoying the links and the So Cal weather included Santa Clarita resident Casey Kirkman, television host Chris Jacobs, television soap star Galen Gering, musician/actor/producer Justin Timberlake and professional baseball pitcher Justin Verlander. Chris Jacobs is a television host and personality. He is the host of “Overhaulin’” and the lead host for “Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auctions”, and is a weekend presenter on the NFL Network. In June 2015, production began on “Long Lost Family”, which debuted on TLC on March 6, 2016. Jacobs hosts the show along with Lisa Joyner.
Galen Laius Gering was born in Los Angeles, California, to Alan Gering and Michele de Oñate, a renowned west coast artist. He is of Russian Jewish descent on his father’s side and Basque on his mother›s (his great-grandfather was a Basque immigrant). At the age of 18, Gering moved to New York City to start a modeling career, finished high school remotely then completed college in Miami where he studied creative writing and film. In 1999, Gering learned of a role in a NBC daytime soap called Passions through Irene Marie Models. By the time Gering graduated from UM, he was already taping Passions, where he had landed the role of Officer Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald. Gering was named one of People’s 50 Most Beautiful People in 2000. In the fall of 2008 after the cancellation of Passions, Gering debuted on another NBC soap, Days of Our Lives.
Justin Randall Timberlake is an American singer-songwriter, actor and record producer. Born and raised in Tennessee, he appeared on the television shows Star Search and The All-New Mickey Mouse Club as a child. In the late 1990s, Timberlake rose to prominence as one of the two lead vocalists and youngest member of NSYNC, which eventually became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time. Currently, Timberlake will headline the Super Bowl LII halftime show in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 4. His fifth studio album Man of the Woods will also be released on February 2, two days before his halftime show performance. The album‘s first song ”Filthy” was released on January 5.
Rounding out the celebrity bunch is Justin Brooks Verlander. Justin is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Detroit Tigers for 13 seasons, with whom he made his major league debut on July 4, 2005. As a former ace in the Tigers‘ starting rotation, he was regarded as a key figure in four consecutive American League (AL) Central division championships from 2011 to 2014. He is among the career pitching leaders for the Tigers, including ranking second in strikeouts (2,373), seventh in wins (183), and eighth in innings pitched (2511).
Have your own celebrity sighting? Share it with us by emailing the photo, along with your name and a few words to contest@santaclaritamagazine.com.
Santa Clarita resident Stephanie Struyck had the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors and hit the greens at the golf course with country superstar Tracey Lawrence. The award-winning musician has sold 13 million albums during his illustrious career, with 22 songs on the Billboard Top 10 charts. Some of his songs include “Sticks and Stones,” “Paint Me a Birmingham,” “Alibis” and “Can’t Break It to My Heart,” to name a few. Lawrence was born in Atlanta, Texas, and lived most of his early life in Foreman, Arkansas. He wrote his first song when he was four years old. His mother had to write down the lyrics for him. He played in his first band at the age of sixteen and later attended Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, Arkansas, where he was a member of the Epsilon Kappa chapter of Sigma Pi Fraternity. In 1990 Lawrence left Arkansas for Nashville, Tennessee where he planned to find success as a recording artist. Lawrence worked as an ironworker and in phone sales while he tried to break into the music business. He began participating in talent shows and earned enough money to live on. He began working with Wanda Collier, a music publisher, doing some shows and co-writing some songs, while learning his way around the music scene in Nashville. He had a gig at the Bluebird Cafe and met Wayne Edwards who became his manager. Lawrence got his big break with the album “Sticks and Stones.” Since then he has sold more than 5 million albums and has also had 11 chart-topping hits.
Another group of guys enjoying the links and the So Cal weather included Santa Clarita resident Casey Kirkman, television host Chris Jacobs, television soap star Galen Gering, musician/actor/producer Justin Timberlake and professional baseball pitcher Justin Verlander. Chris Jacobs is a television host and personality. He is the host of “Overhaulin’” and the lead host for “Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auctions”, and is a weekend presenter on the NFL Network. In June 2015, production began on “Long Lost Family”, which debuted on TLC on March 6, 2016. Jacobs hosts the show along with Lisa Joyner.
Galen Laius Gering was born in Los Angeles, California, to Alan Gering and Michele de Oñate, a renowned west coast artist. He is of Russian Jewish descent on his father’s side and Basque on his mother›s (his great-grandfather was a Basque immigrant). At the age of 18, Gering moved to New York City to start a modeling career, finished high school remotely then completed college in Miami where he studied creative writing and film. In 1999, Gering learned of a role in a NBC daytime soap called Passions through Irene Marie Models. By the time Gering graduated from UM, he was already taping Passions, where he had landed the role of Officer Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald. Gering was named one of People’s 50 Most Beautiful People in 2000. In the fall of 2008 after the cancellation of Passions, Gering debuted on another NBC soap, Days of Our Lives.
Justin Randall Timberlake is an American singer-songwriter, actor and record producer. Born and raised in Tennessee, he appeared on the television shows Star Search and The All-New Mickey Mouse Club as a child. In the late 1990s, Timberlake rose to prominence as one of the two lead vocalists and youngest member of NSYNC, which eventually became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time. Currently, Timberlake will headline the Super Bowl LII halftime show in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 4. His fifth studio album Man of the Woods will also be released on February 2, two days before his halftime show performance. The album‘s first song ”Filthy” was released on January 5.
Rounding out the celebrity bunch is Justin Brooks Verlander. Justin is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Detroit Tigers for 13 seasons, with whom he made his major league debut on July 4, 2005. As a former ace in the Tigers‘ starting rotation, he was regarded as a key figure in four consecutive American League (AL) Central division championships from 2011 to 2014. He is among the career pitching leaders for the Tigers, including ranking second in strikeouts (2,373), seventh in wins (183), and eighth in innings pitched (2511).
Have your own celebrity sighting? Share it with us by emailing the photo, along with your name and a few words to contest@santaclaritamagazine.com.
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