Celebrity

When Brandon Nimmo was selected to play for Team Italy in the upcoming World Baseball Classic, most people were surprised to learn that the Wyoming native came from an Italian family. After all, most members of the Nimmo family are of Irish and Scottish decent...

I recently heard an amazing story about the night Christopher Walken bellied up to the bar at the Hitching Post in Cheyenne. It was the spring of 1979 and Walken had recently won an Academy Award for his role in The Deer Hunter. The actor had just been cast to play Nate Champion in the film Heaven's Gate, which was based on  Wyoming's infamous Johnson County War...

Last night, actor Dax Shepard unveiled the trailer for the movie "CHiPs". In the film, Shepard will reprise a role made famous by Wyoming's native son, Larry Wilcox. Wilcox was raised by a single mother in Rawlins. After graduating from Rawlins High School, he briefly worked as a rodeo clown before joining the United States Marines...

Long before she gained fame at Princess Leia in Star Wars, Carrie Fisher was part of an infamous Hollywood scandal that would eventually bring her to Wyoming on several occasions. When she was only two years old, her father, actor Eddie Fisher, left her mother Debbie Reynolds and married Elizabeth Taylor...

Who's more popular in Wyoming: President-Elect Donald J. Trump or local hero Thomas Gobbles?

Of the thousands of wild turkeys in Wyoming, only one has their own Facebook page. Thomas Gobbles has been a controversial Casper celebrity for several years. While some have accused Thomas of blocking traffic, chasing mailmen, harassing students at Casper College, lewd displays of affection and a general disregard for public safety, he is beloved by hundreds of children in Natrona County... Read

Get hammered with legendary author Ernest Hemingway as we tour his favorite Wyoming watering holes.

On November 15, Buck will compete on Chopped Junior's "Thanks Kidding" episode where “Four young cooks set out to make judges a spectacular Thanksgiving meal."

Celia Hart was a Wyoming actress who was able to make it as an actress in Hollywood and as a wife to a very successful Hollywood actor, a very rare feat indeed.

Yesterday, we published a list ranking Wyoming's Five Best Poker Players. We left one name off the list because he no longer lives here. However, there is one Cowboy State native who owns a World Series of Poker bracelet. Joe Cassidy was born and raised in Cheyenne...