Look To The Stars News: James Lesure

Celebrity Charity Bowl-A-Thon To Hit Hollywood Tonight

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:00:00 +0000

Los Angeles Team Mentoring (LATM) is holding its second annual celebrity Bowl-A-Thon fundraiser at Lucky Strike Lanes in Hollywood, Calif. tonight, Feb. 24, 2011.

This year’s Bowl-A-Thon will be attended by more than 17 television and sports personalities, each of whom will lead a bowling team of six to raise money for the local non-profit. The evening will consist of bowling, games, food, drinks, raffles and special prizes for the champion bowlers. Participants will enjoy a fun-filled evening of bowling while helping raise money and awareness for this distinctive program, which helps so many kids beat the odds against them. Celebrities scheduled to attend the event include Quinton Aaron and Kristoff St. John, as well as Kiptyn Locke and Tenley Molzahn from ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, 102.7 Kiss FM’s Manny “Manny Streetz” Guevara, professional dancer and choreographer Cris Judd, 24’s Gregory Itzin, Charmed’s Brian Krause, James Lesure from the new ABC show, Mr. Sunshine, and Patrick Warburton from CBS’s Rules of Engagement.

For almost two decades, LATM has provided at-risk middle-school youth with a unique approach to mentoring, guiding them to perform better in school, create lasting relationships, build resiliency to adverse situations and realize their full potential. This innovative and successful team-based program continues to help thousands of under-privileged and at-risk youth build self-esteem and self-worth so that they can dream and attain far-reaching goals and lead lives with positive futures. LATM continues to be one of the biggest and most notable after-school mentoring programs in Los Angeles.

Mia Hamm To Hold Third Celebrity Charity Soccer Challenge

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Soccer star Mia Hamm and her husband, former Dodger Nomar Garciaparra, will host their third annual ‘Celebrity Soccer Challenge’ on January 16 at the Home Depot Center in Carson California to raise money and awareness about bone marrow disease.

Last years event raised nearly $200,000 for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Mia Hamm Foundation while encouraging the thousands of fans in attendance to register for the National Marrow Donor Program Registry.

It is a cause close to Hamm’s heart, because she lost her brother Garrett to aplastic anemia, a bone marrow disease, in 1997.

LTTS Exclusive: Hollywood Knights Slam-Dunk For Charity

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:30:00 +0000

Look To The Stars’ Delinda Lombado recently got the chance to talk to the CEO of Hollywood Knights International, whose celebrity basketball team is a leader in charity fundraising.

Back in 1973, David Mirisch was way ahead of the curve. As founder of Hollywood Knights International, he is credited with being the first (or at least most important) person to pair celebrities with fundraising, producing some of the first consecutive tennis and golf charity tournaments in Hollywood.

Now headed by David’s son Michael (who took the reins as CEO in 1992), Hollywood Knights International are still going strong and its Celebrity Basketball Team has become a symbol for fundraising world-wide.

LTTS Exclusive: The Second Annual Celebrity Soccer Challenge

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:30:00 +0000

Look To The Stars reporter Delinda Lombardo attended Mia Hamm’s massive celebrity soccer game during the weekend and caught up with some of the stars that took part.

The second annual Celebrity Soccer Challenge at the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles was a big success as Mia Hamm and Nomar Garciaparra were joined by a slew of celebrity friends who helped raise nearly $200,000 for the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Mia Hamm Foundation.

James Lesure Makes Going Green Fashionable

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:30:00 +0000

Actor James Lesure recently took time from his busy shooting schedule as newly joined member of NBC’s Lipstick Jungle to walk the runway in show of support of Eco-friendly fashion.

During Fashion week, Lesure strutted his stuff in a recycled wool blazer by Sean John and gray organic t-shirt by Edun.