Comments on: Famous Mormons

By: Ammon

Ammon — Thu, 18 May 2006 15:37:45 +0000

I can confirm that Kelly Packard of Baywatch, California Dreams, and Ripley’s Believe it or Not fame comes from an LDS background. One of my mission companions Elder Robbie Packard is her first-cousin and told me about it.

By: Troy Taysom

Troy Taysom — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:40:57 +0000

“I did not know that Jimmy Superfly Snooka was LDS.”

Neither did I. When I was a kid, he and Dusty Rhodes were my heroes.

By: jml311

jml311 — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:26:11 +0000

Paul Walker is a mormon. His parents are in my friends ward in California, and he has also attended there. I do not believe that he is very active.

By: gst

gst — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:54:28 +0000

Never mind. He seem’s content in the Baptist church: http://www.georgesteele.com/animal/testimony.htm

By: gst

gst — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:44:24 +0000

I did not know that Jimmy Superfly Snooka was LDS. I think we should also baptise George “The Animal” Steele. While teaching an elders quorum lesson, he can eat the turnbuckle and get smashed with a folding chair because he gets distracted by Miss Elizabeth.

By: Noelle

Noelle — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:20:42 +0000

My friend told me the director of Bend it like Bekham and Bride and Prejudice was Mormon – Gurinder Chadha – I told her that I hadn’t heard that – I thought she was Hindu, but researching all of the articles on her, I can’t find ANYTHING on religion – can someone dispell this?

By: Ken McCain

Ken McCain — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 04:17:53 +0000

Rick Schroeder is LDS and went to the Snowflake Temple to do some temple work shortly after it was dedicated a few years ago.

By: brock

brock — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:20:44 +0000

Mike Weir is not a Mormon though he did play Golf at BYU. Alice Cooper was a fundamentalist Mormon. I served my mission in Phoenix Az. where he lives. I had a Companion that tracted into him but He (Cooper) refused to sign an autograph unless he could sign it in the Book of Mormon. Needless to say this elder didn’t get an autograph. If sin smelled the church would be a stinky place. We shouldbn’t judge these celebrities just because the smoke or swear dosent mean they are bad people.

By: T

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:39:49 +0000

Let’s dispell some legends. Paul Walker is not a Mormon. This was conjured up by a fake interview done a few years ago where he was allegedly quoted as stating he was a Mormon and currently practicing. We simply know he is not practicing so that makes that interview a farce, thus destroying any thought of him being a Mormon.
Christina Aguilera is NOT a mormon. She was not baptized. It is true that her parents are. Her grandmother is a practicing Mormon who had her blessed in the church in Michigan but she had little contact from there.
For information on Eliza Dushku (Faith and Buffy the Vampire slayer), read her interview on Maxim. She is a Mormon and was baptized as such. She told the reporter as much while taking a drag on her cigarrette mentioning “well, I am obviously not practicing it.” She said nothing bad about the church. Her Parents broke up and she went with her mom who seemed to only be in the church in the first place because of her husband. When that relationship ended, so did all ties to the church.
My question is to confirm if Lionel Ritchie is an active member. You wouldn’t think so with his daughter being quite of the world.

By: Mike B

Mike B — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 05:54:06 +0000

I have to agree with somebody here that famous momos don’t mean anything. Having said that, Mick Jagger’s girlfriend is a Mormon girl from Utah. Doubtful that she’s active. I went to high school with her. She changed her name from Luann Bambrough to L’Wren Scott. See http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13220291_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-MICK-S-FOUND-A-LOIN-TAMER-name_page.html

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 00:21:53 +0000

I once heard that Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen were LDS.
Does anybody know for sure?

By: claire

claire — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:32:14 +0000

What an old thread, but have to throw in that Gladys Knight is LDS, she has attended our ward when in town and recently did a series of very well attended missionary musical firesides in our stake.

By: hugh towler

hugh towler — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:53:43 +0000

I’ve heard the rumours…everyone from Lionel Ritchie to Alice Cooper. I suppose that it may be nice to know from a trivia point of view. Does anyone know of openly active, successful celebrities? That seems to me more relevant!

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:43:05 +0000

Funny story – My nephew (age 6) once brought my father to church and asked him to come to sharing time. Walking through the halls at church everyone waved and said hello to my father (who is not in that ward/or stake I might add). Come to find out my nephew used his grandpa for his sharing time, stating that he has someone famous in his family, in which my father had to explain that he wasn’t famous, which the teacher promptly dispelled by hearty greetings to my father, then my nephew replied, see, everyone knows you! My Father is an OBGYN. So moral of the story – being “famous” really depends on who you ask.

By: annegb

annegb — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:57:31 +0000

Kingsley, good point.

I just read a book about the Sudan (fiction) called Acts of Faith, one of the main character’s mother was Mormon. I love reading how non-Mormons see us.