What celebrities grew up in the same place you did?
By Sissy15
@sissy15 (12269)
United States
July 17, 2017 12:45am CST
After having a conversation with Stacy and Sishy I found myself thinking about how different we all are and a lot of that has to do with the place we grew up. I don't care how far you travel from where you grew up I think that it usually holds a place in our hearts because that's where we had our beginning. I started thinking about all of the famous people that have hailed from where I currently reside, which I consider this place my hometown as I have lived here the majority of my life. I spent the first 12 years of my life in a tiny town about 20 minutes from here but even then I always came here to do anything and I was born and I had my son here so to me this is home.
Where I live is more well known for its university so we have had a lot of actors and writers go to college here like Tim Conway, Eva Marie Saint, and James Pickens Jr to name a few, but probably the most well known person that actually grew up from here is Scott Hamilton, he was born in Canada but was adopted by a family from here. We make such a big deal of it that we even have his name on our signs when you first enter town and we renamed a street after him.
Just north of us in a bigger city, they often say we're considered a suburb of but I always felt we were too far out to be considered a suburb but whatever, Jamie Faar and Katie Holmes are from there. Now no one wants to live there, Katie lived in a gated community and went to a private school so she didn't have to deal with a lot of what others have to deal with who live there. Her dad was a lawyer or is a lawyer I don't remember if he practices anymore so they had money. I know everyone makes a huge deal when she comes back to visit family. I personally hate going there for anything, but unfortunately, that's where a lot of my son's doctors appointments are and if you want to do anything remotely fun you basically have to go there, they used to have a good part and a bad part but anymore it's basically all bad unless you go into the nicer areas which are the suburbs like where Katie grew up which is close to where my brother now lives.
That being said what famous celebrities are from where you are from? Any interesting stories? Do you know anything about them? It's just interesting to hear about.
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@celticeagle (159002)
• Boise, Idaho
17 Jul 17
I live in an area where many celebrities go to ski and there are many that have places here. Up north that is. Central state area. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and ex wife. More I am sure.
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@celticeagle (159002)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Jul 19
@rebelann .....Yes, so I stay out of those areas.
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@rebelann (111163)
• El Paso, Texas
14 Jul 19
Makes sense, I would too @celticeagle
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
17 Jul 17
I don't know of any that I can speak of. However, quite a few own property in our state. Michael J. Fox is one that comes to mind.
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
17 Jul 17
The most notable person from here is Juan Corona, a serial killer who murdered a ton of migrant workers back in the '70s. Apparently at one point he and his brother worked in my great grandpa's orchard, and everyone knew that they were killing people, which is really awful if you think about it.
We have some actors who were from here too. Charlotte Stewart, who played the school teacher Miss Beadle on "Little House On the Prairie" was from here.
And we have some athletes who were/are from here. Brock Stassi, Philadelphia Phillies first baseman and his dad
Max Stassi, Houston Astros catcher. Max Stassi was actually a P.E. teacher at my high school and my brothers went to school with Brock. They are always in the newspaper but I wonder if anyone's even heard of them outside of this area.
Leanne Marshall, who was the season 5 winner of "Project Runway" is also from here. Also the author of "A Child Called It" lived here for a while.
And of course there's me. I'm not famous yet but I will be. ;) Haha
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
17 Jul 17
Oh, and Jonathan Taylor Thomas was from Roseville, which is not too far from here. About a half hour drive.
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@sissy15 (12269)
• United States
17 Jul 17
Yeah, I don't know much about sports lol. I know who Scott Hamilton is for obvious reasons and I know who Ben Rothlisburger (I guarantee the spelling is incorrect and I'm too lazy to look up the correct spelling) who plays for the Steelers, Cory went to school with Ben and says he's a jerk. Ben went to Cory-Rawson and then Findlay. Oh, the girl that plays Lou on Bunk'd is from here as well. I didn't know that about the Child called It author, well I think you did tell me once in passing but I didn't know before that. There are others from here too that I can't currently think of but yeah it's interesting to see where some people come from. I know one day you'll be famous lol, I'll then have to get your autograph and sell it for big bucks lol.
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@sissy15 (12269)
• United States
17 Jul 17
@Srbageldog I would have loved not being far from him when I was a kid lol, I used to have a crush on him when I was much younger.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
19 Jul 19
I really don't know of any famous people from any of the small towns i consider home here in Oregon.... but River Phoenix and Lisa Rinna we're both raised here in Oregon.
@sissy15 (12269)
• United States
20 Jul 19
That's cool. We also have Miranda May who lived here until she was ten. If you don't know who that is she plays Lou on Bunk'd on the Disney Channel. I am sort of curious if my sister ever had her in anything. My sister is our local DARE officer and does things like safety town and coached soccer. The population here is like 30,000 so it's not a huge city but bigger than small towns. The town I grew up in until I was 12 only had a population of 200 and no one famous was from there unless you count Jerry Serrato (who would be infamous I suppose) who was the guy in Texas several years back that killed his psychiatrist and then himself and put the army base on lockdown. It was national news at the time. He actually lived directly behind us our yards touched. His dad actually lived behind us but he lived with him for the longest time. I always knew there something not right about him. He maced our dog when she barked at him through our fence and she always wanted to kill him and he was super lucky on a few occasions. She jumped out of a second-story window trying to get to him. His dad was the nicest person on the planet so I don't know what his issue was. My sister still claims she knew him and he wasn't like that but she didn't know him as well as she thinks she did.
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@sissy15 (12269)
• United States
20 Jul 19
@chrissbergstrom It's scary when you learn you actually know them. I think Jerry was messed up and he blamed the psychiatrist for some things he didn't kill anyone else just that guy and himself so clearly he blamed the man but it makes you wonder of what else they may have been capable of. It's sad when you hear about these people and you wonder what in their life made them the way they are.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
20 Jul 19
@sissy15 Yeah we have some infamous killers and missing people from here sadly....
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@shikharava (1838)
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17 Jul 17
If I tell you that, then I can't be anonymous anymore
People will know where I grew up
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@sissy15 (12269)
• United States
17 Jul 17
Yeah, I don't mind people knowing where I'm from to a certain degree but I don't give out my name or anything, I am semi anonymous on here but not entirely. This question is more for those who don't want to remain completely anonymous. Some people are also from bigger cities like New York where if people figured out they were from there it wouldn't be a huge deal because the size of it is pretty overwhelming.
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@sissy15 (12269)
• United States
17 Jul 17
@shikharava I don't mind. It was just directed towards those who wanted to join in. I by no means expect everyone to answer or for that matter anyone if they don't want to. It was just something I know some people might like to talk about.
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