Personal Life
Wagner was married to actress Kristina Wagner, who played opposite him on General Hospital as his love interest Felicia Cummings. After marital troubles they filed for divorce twice; it was finalized in 2006. The Wagners have two sons, Peter (born 1990) and Harrison. Wagner began dating his Melrose Place love interest Heather Locklear in 2007; they became engaged in August 2011. Wagner said of his relationship with Locklear and the prospect of marriage: e're not rushing into anything - we're really focusing on being good parents. The couple called off their engagement on November 15, 2011.
In November 2011, Jack met his 23-year-old daughter, Kerry, for the first time at a concert in Florida. Kerry had been placed up for adoption at birth by her birth mother, and had recently hired a private investigator to find both of her biological parents. This was also the "personal story" of Wagner in his Dancing with the Stars performance on April 2, 2012.
Wagner is an avid golfer, and is ranked as one of the leading celebrity golfers. He is the only non-professional athlete to have won the American Century Celebrity Golf Classic, the annual competition to determine the best golfers among American sports and entertainment celebrities. Wagner first won the event in 2006, and repeated as champion in 2011, when he bested Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo . Wagner also won the Missouri junior college championship in 1980, and at one point considered a career in pro golf. He has a Celebrity Golf Classic named after him that raises funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Wagner created the event to support the Society's mission to cure such cancers as leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families. The Golf Classic raised more than $600,000 in its first two years to fund critical cancer research and patient services.
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