About Carey Hart

Carey Hart (born July 17, 1975 in Las Vegas, Nevada[1]) is a freestyle motocross motorcycle racer and off-road racer. He and singer Pink have been married since 2006.
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•    1 Early years
•    2 Career
o    2.1 Life after freestyle
o    2.2 Hart & Huntington
o    2.3 Wasted Space
•    3 Personal life
o    3.1 Marriage
•    4 References

[edit] Early years
Hart was born in Las Vegas, Nevada[1] and raised in Seal Beach, California. His parents divorced when he was very young and he and his younger brother Anthony "Tony" Hart were raised by their father, Tom Hart.[2] Hart began competing in motocross races in 1981 at only 6 years old, turned professional in 1993 when he was 18 and began competing in super cross racing at that time. Hart then began competing in freestyle motocross (FMX) in 1996.[2]
[edit] Career
During the 2000 Gravity Games, Hart attempted a back flip in a motorcycle competition.[3] He also invented a freestyle motocross trick known as the Hart Attack.[4]
Hart has traveled around the world promoting freestyle Motocross. He has jumped the trailer park in Kid Rock's video "Bawitdaba".[citation needed] On the 2000 Australian Warped Tour, he played bass with the band Pennywise.[citation needed] He has also appeared in Pink's "Just Like A Pill", So What", and Raise Your Glass videos.[citation needed]
Hart has been featured in nationwide ad campaigns for Ford, Dunkin Donuts, Fox, DVS and Mountain Dew as well as in such print publications as Paper Magazine, Teen People, ESPN The Magazine, Rolling Stone, Prick and, Skinnie, and has been on the covers of numerous Motocross & tattoo magazines.
Hart has also appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, Inked, MTVs Life Of Ryan, Rove Live (Australia), appeared on The Today Show, was a guest in Talkin' 'bout Your Generation and has starred in ESPN/Touchstone Pictures’ IMAX film, Ultimate X and has cameo appearances in xXx and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Pink's videos Just Like a Pill, "Raise Your Glass" and "So What".
Hart was as a cast member on the fifth season of the VH1 reality show The Surreal Life.[5]
[edit] Life after freestyle
Hart competes in AMA Supermoto championship as a member of his Hart & Huntington Tattoo/Rockstar Supermoto Team.
In 2009, Hart teamed up with PMG to launch the Hart and Huntington Tattoo truck team. He also competed in the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series for Team General Tire's Unlimited 2 trophy truck.[6]
[edit] Hart & Huntington
In 2004, Hart and fellow entrepreneur, John Huntington, opened Hart & Huntington Tattoo Company in the Palms Casino. A&E network followed Hart and the workings of the shop on the reality show INKED.
Since the initial opening, four more Hart and Huntington Tattoo shops have opened: Honolulu, Cabo San Lucas, Orlando at Universal Citywalk, and Niagara Falls Canada. The Cabo store closed in early 2008. Hart also started a clothing line based on the designs of the artists that work at Hart and Huntington Tattoo Company.
In 2006, Promoter John Huntington filed a lawsuit against Hart, alleging he owed large amounts of money for his trademark and likeness. Huntington claimed he sold his 48 percent ownership back to Hart. Hart reportedly hired high-profile Las Vegas attorney Gene Porter to resolve the case through a mediation settlement, which was in turn successful.[2] In 2009, the Las Vegas store was relocated to Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
[edit] Wasted Space
Hart teamed up with Cory McCormack, Jason Giambi, Benji Madden and Joel Madden to create Wasted Space in July 2008. The club was designed by Hart, McCormack and Zeff Design. Hart hand-picked one of his favorite L.A. artists to create a 30-foot hand-made mural of vintage rock show posters and flyers with the signature Wasted Space winged microphone logo stenciled over them.
In August of 2010, Wasted Space closed to make way for the Hard Rock's new race and sports book.[7]
[edit] Personal life
[edit] Marriage
Hart married American singer Pink (Alecia Moore) on January 7, 2006, in Costa Rica.[8] The two had met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the 2001 X Games.[citation needed] After four years of dating, Pink proposed to Hart in 2005 via a pit board during one of his races in Mammoth Lakes, California. She was holding a sign saying the classic phrase "Will you marry me?" Initially, Hart ignored her and completed another lap of the race. Only when Pink changed the sign and held it up again with it now saying, "I'm serious," did Hart pull out of the race to pick Pink up. [9] They married in the Four Seasons resort in Costa Rica in January 2006.[10] After months of speculation, Pink announced in February 2008 that she and Hart had separated.[11][12] In 2008 Pink's Song "So What" showed that her husband and she were separated and she wanted to put him in the video so as to not hurt him.
During their separation, in August 2008, Pink was supportive of her estranged husband when Hart's brother died due to injuries sustained in a motocross competition.[13][14] In March 2009, Hart said he and Pink were "dating".[15] He also said the couple was attempting to work things out, stating, "Sometimes you have to take a couple of steps back to move forward".[16] In April 2009, Pink said the couple had gone to marriage counseling and was back together, and were never divorced.[17]
On November 17, 2010, Pink announced during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that she is pregnant with her and Hart's first child and is due in mid-2011.[18] On June 2nd, 2011 Pink announced on her Twitter that she gave birth to a girl named Willow Sage Hart.[19]

Meredith Vieira: Why I'm leaving the 'Today' showh

Meredith Vieira: Why I'm leaving the 'Today' show

Afterpe Meredith Vieira announced that she was leaving the "Today" show last month, tabloids began buzzing that she was planning to spend her days caring for her husband, journalist Richard Cohen, who has multiple sclerosis.

Not so, the TV anchor tells PEOPLE in this week's issue.

"It was being distorted, because it looked better to make it, 'Poor Meredith, she triumphs through it all,' but that wasn't the case," says Vieira, 57. Her husband, 67, would agree.

His reaction to the rumor? "Richard said, 'What is this? You never tend to me! You won't even get me a cup of coffee!' " jokes Vieira. "I said, 'I know! This scam is working!' But enough gets to be enough."

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Still, her family did play a major role in her decision.

Tired of waking up at 2:30 a.m. to tape the NBC morning show, Vieira decided she wanted to spend more time with her husband, whose health has been good recently, and her children, Ben, 22, a recent Stanford graduate, Gabe, 19, and Lily, 18, who is about to leave for college.

"We don't know from day to day what might happen," she says. "So why not enjoy life now? It's very precious, and anyone living with any kind of illness knows that. Health is fleeting, and you need to celebrate it while you still have it."

About Phil Ivey

Phil Ivey was born in California in 1976, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was just a few months old. Growing in a city famous for its gambling, Ivey’s family wanted to prevent him from becoming another hustler, so his grandfather famously cheated Phil Ivey while teaching him to play Five Card Stud at the age of 8. Ivey, however was not discouraged and played for money as early as 16 years-old.

Young Phil Ivey was working as a telemarketer at 18 when he bought an ID for $50 from a colleague named Jerome Graham. He played so often and so long at Atlantic City casinos he earned the nickname “No Home Jerome” until he was finally able to come with an ID of his own and introduce himself as Phil Ivey, a fitting start for a legend.

Ivey has earned the nickname of “The Tiger Woods of Poker” (which he reportedly dislikes) for his skill, concentration, and great success in the game. Before his 30th birthday, Ivey already had five World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, having won his first at age 23 in a Pot Limit Omaha Event. Thanks to his excellent play and devastating aggression at the tables, he has earned a number of poker accolades, including Bluff Magazine’s Poker Player of the Year.

In spite of his tournament success, Ivey prefers to play high-stakes cash games, which he finds more lucrative. According to Barry Greenstein, “When he has played in a tournament event, he has played tired because of the cash game the night before (I know because I have been in the games with him.) He also has had to adopt a style geared to build up quickly or get knocked out quickly during the event, so that he won’t wear himself out for the cash game later that night.”

The Year of Ivey

While Greenstein’s reasoning might explain Ivey’s lack of resonance in major tournaments leading up to and including 2008, that theory no longer holds water. Why? Because the 2009 WSOP will forever be known as the Year of Ivey. Coming into the WSOP amid rumors concerning his prop bets, Ivey promptly won his first bracelet in the $2,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Event, defeating a field of 147 players to claim his sixth WSOP title.  Despite all of the side action being furiously thrown around – $1 million, $3 million, nobody knows for sure – Phil Ivey went out and won another tournament , this time the $2,500 Omaha 8 or Better/Seven Card Stud 8 or Better for $220,538. Once again, the buzz in Las Vegas was all about the side bets and while neither confirming nor denying the chatter, Ivey did go out and play more poker.

In one of the more exciting Main Event developments in recent years, Phil Ivey – already with two bracelets in his pocket – advanced through a field of more than 6,000 players to become one of the 2009 November Nine. While legend has it that he tipped out his first place money in the Lowball event – a mere $96,000 – $8.5 million is a lot of money, even for Phil Ivey.

2009 WSOP Main Event

Ivey was the fan favorite at the final table of the 2009 WSOP Main Event. Any time Ivey was all-in, the Penn and Teller Theater was as silent as a library. When he finally busted in seventh place for $1.4 million, the crowd was completely dumbfounded. On his final hand, Ivey’s A-K fell to Darvin Moon‘s A-Q when Moon hit a queen on the flop. He received a standing ovation from the crowd and the assembled mob of poker players in attendance. Ivey refused to speak to the media afterward and instead ducked out the back door into the Las Vegas night. He remained largely quiet for the rest of 2009.

Divorce

According to TMZ, Ivey and his wife, Luciaetta, petitioned for divorce in December 2009. The couple wed in 2002 and had no children as part of their marriage.