“The best captains bring home the catch, boat and crew safely”  -  Sig Hansen

Sig Hansen was born on April 28, 1966 in Seattle, Washington, USA. Sig Hansen’s full name was Sigurd Jonny “Sig” Hansen. He is an American Captain of the fishing vessel Northwestern. He also serves as the technical advisor for the television series Deadliest Catch. He has a net worth of $2 million.  Since 2006,he has been featured in all the seasons of this documentary series.

CHILDHOOD

Sig Hansen was born to Sverre Hansen and Snefryd Hansen in Seattle.He was eldest of three sons (Sigurd, Edgar and Norman) born to them. His family descended from a long lineage of Norwegian ancestry Fishermen. His Father and grandfather were involved opilio  crab fishing in Alaska. He too began fishing at the age of 14, mostly working on his family’s boat. After graduating from Shorewood High School, he began fishing in Alaska and Bering Sea.During the summer, he would fish mackerel and cod in Norway. He liked fishing so much that he would bunk classes at school to go fishing.

REALIZING HIS PASSION

Hansen started experimenting in his father’s boat during his early years to face the strong sea. At the age of 22,he became a “relief skipper” on the Northwestern.

At 24, he had taken charge of Northwestern full time and as the years passed by, the Northwestern had become the top producer with an excellent saftey record. The Northwestern has never had a single death at sea in nearly 20 years and its serious injury rate is significantly lower as compared to other boats in the Bering Sea fleet. The Northwestern also won the titles for the highest poundage caught and the highest dollars earned between the featured boats in the Deadliest Catch in 2005 ( for King Crab) and 2006 (for Opilio).

Sig Hansen serves as the full time captain during the king and opilio crab seasons, as well as the pot cod fishery on the Northwestern. Edgar and Norman, his younger brothers work as deck boss and deckhand respectively. Sig is a passionate,hard-working captain who can work in extreme conditions. To be a successful fisherman, you need to be a mechanic, navigator, welder, painter, carpenter, and at times, fire fighter.

In March 2010, Hansen released his book, North By Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters, co-written by Mark Sundeen through which he became one of the most renowned published author.

This also made way for his book to reach the bestseller lists of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. This is story of a family of survivors; part memoir and part adventure tale. North by Northwestern is the multi-generational tale of the Hansen’s family.Their story from being Norwegian fishermen to having become modern folk-heroes. No doubt, his book must have sold like hot cakes!!!

On April 29, 2010, Sig Hansen was also chosen to be the guest on a show- “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”. During the show,he expressed his desire to be a contestant on the ABC reality television  show- Dancing with the Stars. Such was his desire that, Leno’s staff went on to set up a Facebook page to gather support for Hansen to be voted to appear on the show. In September 2010, Hansen announced that  he would stop appearing on the Deadliest Catch. However, on October 8, it was announced that he would return to the show.

He has provided the voice of a boat named Crabby in the Disney Pixar film Cars 2.

PERSONAL LIFE

Hansen is married to June and live with their children,Nina and Mandy,in Seattle.He speaks fluent Norwegian,as his Norwegian parents spoke the language at home. He likes to follow the “Norwegian Fisherman’s Diet” while at sea: coffee, chocolate and cigarettes. He supports the sports teams the Seahawks and the Mariners. Even in his tough times, he is completely aware of his responsibilities towards his family. He stays close to his family. He also treats his crew as his own family by being compassionate to them.Last year, Sig kept deckhand Jake Anderson’s slot open when Jake had to go ashore after his sister’s death.This year, Sig plans to train his brother Edgar to take over as the captain of the Northwestern. Recent reports suggests that his 18 year old daughter Mandy Hansen too, is joining Sig on the Deadliest Catch.

RICHNESS

Sig Hansen is a very rich personality. He has been a star of the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch.The show has attracted more than 49 million viewers per season in 150 countries, making it one of the most successful series in the history of cable TV. His hard work has really paid off. Another reason behind the success of the show is its daring camera work, unexpectable and dangerous weather which make this show a unique one. His net worth is estimated to be around $2 million. His salary per season on The Deadliest Catch itself is $1 million. Captain Sig Hansen has accumulated his net worth through his career as Captain of a fishing vessel,author of a best seller and his appearance on television’s “Deadliest Catch”.

For nearly two decades, Sig has seen to it that the Northwestern is of the top producers of the Alaskan’s crab industry. Sig considers his performance essential,but he also believes that great accomplishments are due to the lack of any major accidents onboard the Northwestern.

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 Kevin George Knipfing aka Kevin James, born on April 26, 1965, is basically famous as an American actor and a producer. Not only this, he also earned a great success as a writer, and a comedian. Popular for Doug Heffernan, a character he played in a hit show “The King of Queens”. Further his roles and his acting skills in various films like, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Zookeeper, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and Here Comes the Boom are tremendous.  Further, ‘Dusty Peacock’,a famous web series came in the year 2009 which was produced by James. Nichelodean Kids Awards were also hosted by James in the year 2010.

Early life

James born in Mineola, New York, has a German ancestry. He has two siblings, Gary Valentine, a comedian as well and Leslie Knipfing who works for him. She also helped him to raise the money through various charity events for people suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic eye condition that also leads to permanent blindness, which she also possesses. James was raised Catholic. Graduated from Ward Melville High School in 1983, where he was on the football and wrestling teams. Further, James was a student at the State University of New York ,but he didn’t graduate from there. He was also a member of Pi Lambda Phi.

Career 

James started with his stand-up comedy in 1989, at the East Side Comedy Club in Long Island, New York. Then eventually, he got popular via a number of talk shows, like The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Late Late Show, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, Late Show with David Letterman, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, Dennis Miller Live and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. He also worked on Just for Laugh’s annual comedy festival held in Montreal and as a musical guest later. He started his own stand-up special, Kevin James: Sweat the Small Stuff in the year 2001.

Television

He made his debut on TV through a sports game show SandBlast, as an announcer, till 1996, on the MTV channel. He moved to Los Angeles and he appeared as a guest-star on a few episodes on CBS in Romano’s popular sitcoms.  After these shows, he started his own sitcom, The King of Queens, in which he acted as a middle-class delivery man, who was a worker of a company called IPS and Leah Remini played his wife’s role. He then got a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for an Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for The King of Queens, for the year 2006. Later, he got a chance to be the grand marshal for saying the line “Gentlemen, start your engines” for NASCAR racing, which got famous in the auto racing in, 2007′s Pepsi 400, then again in 2010, with his buddy Adam Sandler for the promotion of Grown Ups and later in 2012, at the event of fall Talladega race.

Film

James made his film debut in the 2005 romantic comedy, Hitch with Will Smith and Eva Mendes as his co-stars. In 2006, he worked as a voice actor in Monster House and Barnyard, both animated films. James then worked with Adam Sandler in many movies like, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan. His movie “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” became the first film in the history of North America who brought a profit of $39 million in a weekend and later grossed $219 million in total. Lately, he acted in Grown Ups with Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock and David Spade; which was criticized a lot but was huge success on the box office. In 2011, he wrote, produced and even played lead roles in Zookeeper and The Dilemma, with Vince Vaughn. James again wrote produced and played a lead role in Here Comes the Boom which is mixed martial-arts comedy in 2012. In the same year, he gave his voice in another animated movie, Hotel Transylvania. In 2013, he again worked with his grown Ups co-stars in its sequel, Grown Ups 2 and now he is planning on releasing the sequel of Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

Personal life

He got married to Steffiana de la Cruz, an actress in 2004 and fathered two daughters Sienna-Marie & Shea Joelle and a son Kannon Valentine. His elder brother, Gary Valentine is also a comedian and acted in King of Queens. James is also a huge sports fan and a supporter of the New York Islanders, New York Knicks, New York Mets and New York Jets. As he is a Catholic, he also made his appearance on a Catholic TV channel EWTN’s World Over.

Awards

He got a nomination for Emmy Awards in 2006 for The King of Queens. He also got two nominations in Teen Choice Awards for Hitch. In 2011, he was nominated in the Arm Fart Hall of Fames Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards.

Richness

Kevin James has a net worth of $80 million. He became famous worldwide and earned this luxury as he is an amazing American actor, a heart throbbing comedian, a great writer and also a producer.  He was also the host of the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards in 2010.

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Introduction

Shaun Roger White was born on September 3, 1986 in San Diego, California, U.S. his mother was Cathey White and father Roger White. He was born in a family of five mother, father, and sister an older brother. His family supported him very much in his initial days of career. In fact he learned snowboarding from his brother. He has many nick names like The Flying Tomato, The Egg, The Animal and Future Boy. He got the nickname ‘The Flying Tomato’ due to his red hair. His ancestors are Italian and Irish. He is an American professional snowboarder and skateboarder. Shaun White has won 10ESPY Awards and is a two-time Olympic gold medalist. Not only has this he held the X-games records for the gold medals. Besides this, he has a highest overall medal count. He had two open heart operation when he was a baby. He was born with a congenital heart defect, Tetralogy of Fallot. Shaun White actually has more number of gold medals than the overall medals.

Career

Shaun white at the age of nine drew the eyes of everyone at the skateboarder scene. He was befriended with the professional skateboard Tony Hawk at this very little age. Hawk helped Shaun and mentored him to turn pro in skateboarding at the age of 17. He won a number of titles and awards for skateboarding. He got Action Sports Tour champion and was the first person to win both summer and Winter X games.

At the age of six Shaun skip from skiing to snowboarding. For snowboarding he followed the footspeps of his older brother. Shaun participated in three Winter Olympic Games. In 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics, Shaun won gold in the snowboard halfpipe event. Since 2002 every year Shaun participate in Winter X Games and won medal. He has total 18 medals (13 gold, 3 silver and 2 Bronze) till 2013 in Winter X Games. Besides this, he won Air and Style Contest in 2003 and 2004.

In 2006 Winter Olympics, Shaun White won gold medal in the Halfpipe. He got his consecutive third title in 2008 in the snowboard Halfpipe. Shaun White was crowned the first ‘Burton Global Open Champion’ in the 2007 Open. His first videogame ‘Shaun White Snowboarding’ was released on November 16, 2008 in North America which became the 20^th best-selling game in the United States. In the year 2009, Shaun won the FIS World Cup Men’s Halfpipe event at Vancouver’s Cypress Mountain. Again in 2010, Shaun won gold in the Halfpipe at Vancouver. In 2011, he won the fourth Gold Medal in Winter X Games held in Aspen Colorado.

Shaun White become the first person to receive the title ’perfect 100’ soring 100 in the man’s Snowboard Superpipe in the history of Winter X Games in the year 2012. In 2013, Shaun was the one who got third place in the Pipe & Slope contest at the FIS Snowboard World Cup in Copper Mountain, Colorado.

Acting and Music

For the first time he appeared in the film Friend with Benefits in the year 2011. In 2013, he played a role in the episode ‘Da Flippiry Flop’ and in 2014 in the movie Cloud 9. Shaun White also plays Guitar and appeared in the rock band Bad things.

Athletic Achievements

Shaun White was the first snowboarder who land back to back double corks in the red Bull Superpipe event. He is the only staker to land the firstside heelflip 540 body varial. Moreover, he is the first man to land a Cab 7 Melon Grab in vert skateboarding. Shaun White got the title ‘Transworld Snowboarding’s Rider of the year’ twice and for the most Metal Athlete he won the ‘Revolver Golden Gods Award’. The list is not over yet, he was named the ‘Chairman of the Board’ on the Spike TV Guys Choice Awards. He received many titles and the number of awards including gold medals, silver medals and bronze medal.

Media Appearances

His first interview was published in Transworld Snowboarding Magazine in 2003. His documentary in 2005 came out, First Descent. In 2007, he appeared in a TV show ‘the Girl Next Door’. The cover of ‘the Complete Book’ of the Winter Olympics 2010 Edition was Shaun White. As a guest, he appeared in The Tonight show with Jay Leno in 2010. Shaun White was arrested for public intoxication and vandalism. At this time he stayed at the hotel Nashville, Tennessee. It is in the news that he has a girlfriend. Shaun’s girlfriend name is Bar Refaeli.

Richness

Shaun White’s net worth is $40 million. He earn $10 Million every year. He is in list of Forbes 40 and is the World’s most valuable Sports brand. Shaun White buys a $9 Million beachfront mansion in Malibu. He also has multiple homes in San Diego. The house got stunning views of the beech and ocean. It has swimming pool also, it covers 2,625 square foot. It has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and one bedroom guest house. Currently, he is a partner of BFgoodrich, Burton, Oakley, Vail resorts, Stride, target and Ubisoft. The endorsement helped him to earn an estimate of $10 Million per year. Shaun White has won dozens of awards .He won more than 10 X Games and two Olympic Games Gold medal. He drives Lambhorgigni LP-640 and Audi car.

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 Introduction to Rachael Ray

The full name of Rachael Ray is Rachael Domenica Ray. She was born on 25^th August in year 1968. Glens Falls in New York is her birth place. Her husband name is John Cusimano.  Rachael ray is a very talented woman. She is not just a TV host but is also a businesswoman and an author. She has also build up her career in cooking and so she is a well known chef also. She hosts the shows of America. She has hosted three very famous cookery shows named 30 Minute Meals, $40 a Day and Rachael Ray’s Tasty Travels. She has started with her career in year 2001 and has achieved a great success in her career. She has even written many books which are based on her cookery show named 30 Minutes. One magazine is also launched, which is named as Every Day with Rachael. The television shows of Rachael were even graced with Daytime Emmy Award.

Life History of Rachael

Rachael was born in New York City. Her mother was a Sicilian American named Elsa Scuderi. And her father was from French named James Ray. At the age of 8, Rachael migrated to Lake George in New York. In Lake George her family had a restaurant and her mother used to manage the work of restaurant. In year 1995 Rachael got her first job at candy counter in Macy’s. There she used to handle the department of fresh food. Later Rachael got the opportunity to manage the pub in the hotel at Lake George named The Sagamore. Through her experience she came with the concept of 30 Minute Meals. The show was basically for the people who had very less time for cooking. In her show she taught how to prepare meal in thirty minutes. And so the name of the show is 30 Minute meals. Her show got very famous and she got highly appreciated. After the success of her show she got the invitation to appear in the weekly news segment of WRGB. This success graced her with the Food Network Contract which was given to her in year 2001.

Cooking Skills

Rachael teaches the art of making meals in just 30 minute. The techniques used by her were quite simple. She uses garlic, chicken stock and fresh herbs as ingredients in her cooking. These ingredients provide a different texture and flavour to the food. She never measured any ingredient to cook a meal. She just used approximation in her cooking. She said approximation is something which brings creativity in your hands. According to Rachael she cannot cook anything which requires measurement of ingredients and so she never bakes anything. In her cookery shows she specify the amount of ingredient with help of her phrases like “E-V-O-O” which meant extra virgin olive oil and “G.B” which meant Garbage bowl. Her phrases in fact got a place in Oxford American College Dictionary. In year 2007 her famous phrase “E-V-O-O” got positioned in Oxford Dictionary. The set of 30 Minute Meals was quite unique it consisted of super insulated oven, Thermo-well; top opening broiler and a chamber stove. Rachael even defeated the famous team of Giada De Laurentis and Bobby Flay on the show of Iron chefs America. On that episode of Iron chefs America, cranberry was the ingredient which was hidden.

Career in Television

Rachael Ray is a well known host. She has achieved a great success in this field too. Rachael is not just a great cook but is also a fabulous host. In year 2005 she stared with her television career with a day time talk show. She endorsed this deal with King World Productions and Oprah Winfrey. Rachael came into sight on many shows like The Today show, The View, Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight show with Jay leno, Cake Boss Nightline and many more. In year 2008 the famous food network named Viva Daisy assigned Rachael as a television executive producer. Rachael was a philanthropist too. In year 2009 she emerged for charity on Million Dollar password.

Glossy magazines

Rachael posed for men’s magazine named FHM in year 2008. The magazine got to face many issues. She even shielded her decision of posing for that magazine on a television show.

Private Living

Rachael Ray got married to an American Lawyer named John Cusimano on 24^th September in year 2005. They got married in Montalcino, Italy. John was also a multitalented man. He was not just a lawyer but was also a Lead singer in very famous rock band named The Cringe. She has two houses of her own, One in Lake Luzerne, New York and another in Greenwich Village of Manhattan.

Awards and Recognition

In year 2004 she was placed in the list of top 100 sexiest women of FHM-U.S.’. In year 2006 a very famous magazine put the name of Rachael in the list of top 100 most influential people. In year 2009 the Forbes magazine titled her as the 79^th most powerful celebrity with the total earning of $15 million in a single year. She was even graced with the people’s choice award for best chef. she is also indulged in charity work.  she initiated an organisation call “yum-o” which helped the kids and their parents to develop a healthy and strong bond with cooking and food.

Favorite brands and Southampton house

Rachael has a very stunning dressing sense. She just prefer to wear some selected brands like Randall Christensen, Missoni Avril Buckle, Stella McCartney, and Marc Bauwer. Rachael owns a very huge house named as Southampton house. the total area of the house is about 2800 square feet. it has 3 huge bedrooms with huge attached bathrooms. there is a beautiful pool in the center of the house. for guest she has a separate house which has two bedrooms with bathrooms. The separate house for the guest even has kitchen and sauna.

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