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Christina Aguilera singer |
Christina's parents met at Brigham Young University and married in the
Washington, D.C. Temple.
They were divorced when she was seven.
When she was nine, her mother was still receiving home teachers, but it is unclear if Christina herself was baptized.
Sources: Internet Movie Database and Here's the skinny on LDS celebrity urban legends by Pete Thunell, BYU News Net, 28 Nov 2000. |
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Travis Barker musician |
He was drummer for Aquabats and Blink 182. Aquabats is a ska band that has had various Mormon members over the years. | Internet Movie Database | |||||
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Alice Cooper shock rock |
His father's name was Ether Moroni Furnier. Jay Evenson, who is
the Deseret News' editorial page editor and teaches an opinion writing class at
BYU, interviewed him once. His family belonged to an offshoot of the LDS Church,
but his father was later ordained a minister in the Baptist church. Source: Here's the skinny on LDS celebrity urban legends by Pete Thunell, BYU News Net, 28 Nov 2000. |
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Elvis Presley singer |
What do you think of when someone mentions Elvis
Presley? What you probably don't think of is his spiritual side, witnessed by
notes he left in a Book of Mormon.
Movie Shows Spiritual Side of Elvis click here to read the story on KSL While he was filming Blue Hawaii (1961), filmmakers used
the Polynesian Cultural Center as one of the locations. At that time Bobby Kauo
taught him the discussions. Brother Kauo was a high councilor for the BYU 9th
Stake in 2000. |
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Tom Hanks actor |
Born in California, Tom Hanks grew up in what he calls a
'fractured' family. He moved around a lot, living with a succession of
step-families. No problems, no abuse, no alcoholism, just a confused childhood. Source: Bruce Cameron
His step-mother, Winifred Hanks, was a Protestant who became enamored with the
Mormon church sometime after she was married to Tom's father in Nevada. Her
interest in the Mormon Church was one of the reasons this marriage broke up
after only two years. |
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Jewel singer |
She was born in Payson, Utah to Mormon parents. According to
Jewel, she was "raised a Mormon until the age of eight." She moved to Alaska
with her father when her parents divorced, but the question of her own baptism
remains a mystery. Source: Here's the skinny on LDS celebrity urban legends by Pete Thunell, BYU News Net, 28 Nov 2000. |
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Larry King broadcast journalist |
Larry King is an agnostic Jew, but he attends church
occasionally with his wife, Shawn King, a "devout Mormon." He has been friendly
to the Church in the media, and he has interviewed President Gordon B. Hinkley. |
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Steve Martin actor |
The rumors regarding Steve Martin's membership in the Church
seem to stem from a ring he wore in a television interview in 1996. Some
apparently thought that it was a CTR ring. Many people asked his public
relations people many times, but they avoided the question. Finally, in 2001, he
said: "I'm not a Mormon." Source: Steve Martin Clowns Around at press conference by Bruce Kirkland, The Toronto Sun, 10 Sep 2001 An email from a visitor to Famous Mormons I
was present at the birth of the "Steve Martin is a Mormon" rumor. It was
sometime in the early 90s. I had been a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
for a few years when a member of the Choir told us one Sunday morning that his
son had baptized Steve Martin back in Hilton Head, South Carolina. I'm sure
that many Choir members did what I did. I told everyone I met about it. I even
announced it that Scott Card's |
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Roseanne comedian |
Roseanne was born to a Jewish family in Salt Lake City, Utah.
From the age of 6 until she was 16 years old she was also active as a Latter-day Saint; however,
because of conflict with her grandmother, she was not actually baptized.
In later years she became more committed to Judaism.
Source: Excerpts from the autobiography of Roseanne about growing up as a Latter-day Saint, LDS Film |
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Mike Weir golfer |
Although you may find articles online that state Mike Weir is LDS he is not
a member of the church. He did attend B.Y.U.
Weir made the less obvious choice, opting for the Mormon university with a strict dress code and policies against drinking Coke, coffee or even Canadian beer. Weir is not Mormon.I asked him what made him make that choice," said his mother, Rosalie. "And he said, 'Mom, if I go to any other university I might tend to party. I won't there. I want the discipline.'"He struggled his first year at BYU but soon got comfortable. The young Canadian developed into an All-American by his senior year. He also fell in love with his future wife and with the outdoors lifestyle in Utah - he would settle in nearby Draper. www.augusta.com |
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Fay Wray actress |
Source: On the Other Hand by Fay Wray |
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