Celebrity

Now we know who else is following @tonyhawk.

This afternoon at 5 PM Tony Hawk let his Twitter army know that he would be at Wahoo’s Fish Taco in Encinitas, California handing out free tickets to see the invite-only premiere of the new Birdhouse Skateboard’s tour video It’s Always Sunnies In Australia at the world famous La Paloma Theatre.

We decided to send a scribe on the chase for tickets just to see how the whole thing went off. Follow the jump for more photos.

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We’re big fans of milk. So is Ryan Sheckler, apparently. We know thanks to his new “celebrity widget” which is basically a clever name for a 300×250 advertisement that America’s Milk Processors think kids will put up all over the web for free a.k.a. social advertising.

Kick flips, grinds and manuals – that’s just another day at the skate park for action sports phenom Ryan Sheckler. But to get serious air, Sheckler knows it takes training, determination and good nutrition to take home the gold. That’s why after training Ryan adds a glass of lowfat or fat free milk to his diet.

Wait, we’re nearly getting milked ourselves. . .

[Link: Body By Milk via The Tackled Box]

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Between the X Games and a red carpet premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Tony Hawk flew to South Africa with The Laureus Sports Foundation for a two-night visit to the Indigo Skate Camp outside Durban. Here’s what he said on Twitter:

Amazing to see Zulu kids skating with no outside influences. . . These kids are fearless, and not jaded by the media’s interpretation of what’s cool. True passion. . . These kids have style for days. Isthumba, Valley of 1000 HIlls, SA. . . Goodbye, Indigo Skate Camp. You are proof that skateboarding can change the world. Great work Dallas.

Seventy hours of travel for 48 hours of sharing. Tony Hawk just doesn’t stop giving back. . . these kids will remember it for a life time.

[Link: @Tony Hawk]

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Ryan Sheckler sat down with Sports Illustrated’s Arash Markazi for a Q&A this weekend at the X Games and here’s what he had to say about his fans and haters:

My fans are the best fans in the world and my haters are the biggest haters in the world, and I love both of them. I [frigging] laugh at the haters. I laugh at them. It’s the most funny thing to see them. I try to put myself in their shoes and look at someone that’s doing way better than me and making way more money than me and I look at them and I’m proud of that guy. I’m happy for them. But the haters that are sitting there, running their mouth and talking [trash], they’ve never had to work for anything. They’ve never had the pressure of 100,000 people watching them. They’ve never been in that situation. So go do something productive with you life. Leave me the [heck] alone; I’m doing [stuff]. I got things to do with my life.

For the rest of the interview click the link.

[Link: Sports Illustrated]

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On Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Tony Hawk will be in Hollywood at the new location of Madame Tussauds‘ next to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre for the unveiling of his new wax doppelgänger.

The wax palace opens Saturday and might be called a museum, but there is nothing quiet, staid, stuffy or old about it. It comes with all the trappings and 115 wax figures . . It’s an interactive bonanza. You can rub shoulders with figures, hug them, dress like them, take pictures with them, and sit or play with them.

Tony is quoted as saying he was “most impressed with the measurements that brought his scars to life in the wax.” Trippy.

[Link: Mercury News photo via @TonyHawk]

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In mid September Tony Hawk will reportedly be joining Richard Petty, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sugar Ray Leonard, Joe Namath, Jim Brown, Fuzzy Zoeller, Mike Ditka, Chuck Liddell, Randy Couture, and Dr. J (among others) to play poker in the Sports Legends Challenge at the Atlantis Paradise Island resort and casino in the Bahamas.

“With the addition of Liddell, Couture, Hawk and Messier, we will enhance the experience for participants and entice a whole new audience of sports fans to be part of this event,” Bibbero said. “We’ve had an unbelievable response to this first-ever event. The support from the sports, poker and fan communities reinforces our vision to turn the Sports Legends Challenge into a series of worldwide events.”

We might have a hard time turning down an invitation to hang out in the Bahama’s with those guys, too, and we’re not even into team sports. Civilians who would like to gamble elbow to elbow with their heros need only pay $3,799 a person.

[Link: Tournament Guide Mag]

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There were rumors buzzing around last weekend that Bam Margera had been admitted to the hospital for an overdose. TMZ, the bastion of skateboarding rumor control has spoken to Bam and here is what they say is the real story:

We just spoke to Bam Margera who said he was rushed to the hospital Sunday after a four day drinking binge — not because of a possible drug overdose. . . The “Jackass” star blames the “4-day bender” on marital problems, telling us “I may get a divorce … booze helps.” . . TMZ also spoke to Bam’s mother — who told us Bam’s wife Missy called 911 because she was worried about his health after learning that he popped an Ambien during the drinking bender. . . Margera says his kidney and leg muscles were a mess from not eating or drinking enough water — but the hospital flushed out his system and he was released to his home after speaking to a psychiatrist.

Getting old must just suck.

[Link: TMZ]

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The only thing better than a profile in a local newspaper, is a profile in a magazine that goes in most local newspapers in the world. . . like Shaun White’s profile in this weekend’s Parade Magazine. It features top secret insights into the extreme life for newspaper readers in the heartland.

White can hop on a snowboard, zoom down a steep hill, shoot off a ski jump, and simultaneously flip and spin while in midair—thus executing what is known in the swaggering parlance of his sport as a “backside rodeo 540.” That’s three 180s. Put him on a skateboard and he’s apt to perform similarly dizzying stunts in a vertigo-inducing half-pipe made of concrete or wood, showing reckless disregard for the integrity of his bone structure.

Dizzying, indeed.

[Link: Parade Magazine]

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