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The most popular and beloved male figure skating star in the world, Scott Hamilton is also a network TV skating commentator, an actor, performer, producer, Emmy Award nominee, best-selling author, role model, humanitarian, philanthropist, and a cancer and brain tumor survivor.
Scott is constantly reminding others that, with fortitude and determination, anything is possible. He has become a much sought after motivational speaker speaking to a wide variety of groups and organizations from as small as 500 to as large as 15,000 about his life and overcoming cancer.
Scott appears regularly on television and is a popular guest on national news shows like the Today Show, and entertainment news programs such as Access Hollywood, Inside Edition, The Insider, Extra!, E! Entertainment, the TV Guide Channel, and Entertainment Tonight; and in various national news publications like People Magazine. He made his motion picture debut in On Edge, a hilarious 2001 mockumentary of figure skating, and starred in the recent, mega box office hit, motion picture comedy Blades of Glory with Will Ferrell and Jon Heder.
As an author, Scott received notable critical praise for his New York Times best-selling autobiography Landing It (Kensington Books, October 1999), an intimate, candid and insightful look at his professional and personal life on and off the ice.
Audiences have watched Scott perform in his own Scott Hamilton's America Tour, with numerous U.S. symphony orchestras, and 15 national touring seasons in Stars On Ice, which he also co‑created and, for which, he served as co‑producer until his retirement from the tour in April 2001. Since then, he returned to Stars on Ice as a Special Guest Star in select cities for two seasons thereafter, and continues to be the creative producing force behind each annual production.
During a fourteen-year tenure with the CBS Television Network as one of their most articulate sports analysts, Scott covered multiple Olympic Games. He has recently signed a three year exclusive agreement with NBC Sports to cover all of their skating broadcasts including the upcoming winter Olympics in 2010.
To add to a remarkable list of achievements, which now includes over 70 titles, awards and honors, in 1990, Scott was inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame. In that same year, he also became a privileged member of the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame.
On December 14, 2002, at a small, very private ceremony held in Malibu, CA, Scott married former nutritionist, Tracie Robinson. It was the first marriage for both. On September 16, 2003, Tracie gave birth to the couple’s first child, Aidan McIntosh Hamilton. Their second child, Maxx Thomas Hamilton was born January 21, 2008.
When he is not working or performing or participating in a wide variety of charitable events, or acting as an official spokesperson for Target House at St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, as well as his own Scott Hamilton C.A.R.E.S. Initiative (Cancer Alliance for Research, Education and Survivorship) at the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Center in Cleveland, Ohio, or promoting his web site Chemocare.com (in conjunction with the Cleveland Clinic and CARES), or serving on the Board of Directors for Special Olympics, Scott can be found on the golf course and enjoys spending time with his wife and two sons at their home in Nashville, Tennessee.