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  • Danica McKellar Ties The Knot To Scott Sveslosky

    Danica McKellar is officially a married woman … again!

    The former The Wonder Years star and her fiancé lawyer Scott Sveslosky tied the knot over the weekend in Kauai, Hawaii.

    McKellar announced the couple’s nuptials on Twitter saying: “Hey guys, I got married!! #dreamcometrue.”

    She later described their “magical” wedding to People magazine.

    “It was absolutely magical,” McKellar said. “We were married at 6:30 a.m. in a sunrise ceremony.The forecast predicted rain, but there was not a drop of water in the clear sky. The sun came peaking up over the mountains just as I was walking down the aisle, alongside both my parents.”

    The wedding was very intimate and only included 25 people. Amongst those who attended were the couple’s sons- ten-year-old Hunter from Sveslosky’s first marriage, and four-year-old Draco from McKellar’s previous marriage.

    “Scott and I exchanged our vows, and then we exchanged family vows with our sons Hunter and Draco — we wrote everything ourselves,” she said. “We also performed a sand ceremony where the four of us poured different colored sand into a vase which we will keep at home.”

    The couple got engaged in July, and in an October interview with CBS News, McKellar spoke very highly of her husband-to-be. “It’s amazing. Every day is filled challenges and miracles. He’s smart. He’s interested in things. He’s sensitive. He loves reading. I read to him every night,” McKellar said. “It’s my favorite thing to do with him.”

    Congratulations to Danica and Scott!

  • Danica McKellar Is Officially Off The Market

    Danica McKellar is married.

    The actress, who is best known as Kevin Arnold’s sometimes sweetheart Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years, married Scott Sveslosky in Kauai, Hawaii on Saturday. The couple wed in a small beachfront ceremony in front of about 25 family members and close friends.

    The ceremony included a ritualistic-like blending of the two families. McKellar and Sveslosky exchanged “family vows” with the bride’s 4-year-old son Draco and the groom’s 10-year-old Hunter. McKellar said, “We also performed a sand ceremony where the four of us poured different-colored sand into a vase which we will keep at home.”

    The actress/math whiz told People magazine, “It was absolutely magical. We were married at 6:30 a.m. in a sunrise ceremony. The forecast predicted rain, but there was not a drop of water in the clear sky. The sun came peaking up over the mountains just as I was walking down the aisle, alongside both my parents.”

    McKellar took to Twitter to announce the big news. She tweeted, “Hey guys, I got married!! #dreamcometrue.”

    This is McKellar’s second marriage. She and music composer Mike Verta divorced in 2012. It is also the second marriage for Sveslosky, who is a partner at the international law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton.

    McKellar’s most recent foray into television ended last May when she was voted off Dancing With the Stars in Week 8 of the reality show competition. It was a bit of a rough run for McKellar, who was an early front-runner to win the entire competition. However, she suffered a broken rib during rehearsal in late April. Although McKellar was able to continue in the competition, the injury most certainly had some impact on her performance.

  • Danica McKellar: ‘Wonder Years’ Actress Marries Scott Sveslosky

    Danica McKellar of The Wonder Years tied the knot on Saturday in Hawaii. She is now the wife of lawyer Scott Sveslosky. Known best for her role as Winnie Cooper, McKellar didn’t get to marry Kevin Arnold (played on the hit TV show by actor Fred Savage), but would likely say she found–at the very least–a close match.

    The couple said ‘I do’ in front of 25 close family members and friends on Kauai, according to a rep for McKellar.

    “It was absolutely magical,” Danica McKellar said. “We were married at 6:30 a.m. in a sunrise ceremony. The forecast predicted rain, but there was not a drop of water in the clear sky. The sun came peaking up over the mountains just as I was walking down the aisle, alongside both my parents.”

    This is the second time down the aisle for Danica McKellar. She was previously married to Mike Verta, with whom she shares son Draco, who is four. Scott has a son named Hunter, from a previous marriage. Hunter is 10.

    “Scott and I exchanged our vows and then we exchanged family vows with our sons Hunter and Draco–we wrote everything ourselves,” Danica said. “We also performed a sand ceremony where the four of us poured different colored sand into a vase which we will keep at home.”

    “Before we met, Scott had wanted to learn ballroom dancing, and when I got on DWTS, he was even more inspired,” Danica also said. “Once I left the show–and my broken rib healed–we took lessons together. At the reception, our first dance as husband and wife was a choreographed waltz to ‘So This Is Love’ from’ Cinderella,’ which included dips and lifts and other tricks I learned on Dancing With the Stars. Doing the waltz in my wedding gown was certainly a challenge!”

    Scott Sveslosky is a partner at the international law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter, and Hampton. He and Danica McKellar got engaged in July. May they enjoy many happy years as husband and wife.

  • Danica McKellar Announces Dancing with the Stars Team Name

    Danica McKellar, of The Wonder Years fame, has joined the cast of Dancing with the Stars Season 18. McKellar will pair up with Ukranian professional dancer Val Chmerkovskiy and after considerable discussion on Twitter, the two have announced their team name: Team Vanica.

    Chmerkovskiy is the brother of Maksim Chmerkovskiy who has made numerous DWTS appearances over the years, both as a contestant and as a guest dancer. Maksim will re-join the cast in Season 18, partnering with Olympic ice dancer Meryl Davis.

    McKellar became a household name in the late 1980s when she starred as Winnie Cooper on the television series The Wonder Years. The show ended after a six season run, and although McKellar has done some acting since, she’s spent a fair amount of time studying math and writing books.

    In 1998, McKellar graduated summa cum laude with a degree in mathematics from University of California Los Angeles.

    “I love that stuff,” McKellar has said of her fondness for math. “I love continuous functions and proving if functions are continuous or not.”

    While at UCLA, McKellar and a fellow student partnered with Professor Lincoln Chayes to prove a property that would indicate when the magnetic field would line up in a certain direction. The result of their extensive research was a published paper and the Chayes-McKellar-Winn theorem.

    From there, McKellar segued into writing books as a means of encouraging girls to succeed in mathematics. In 2008 she published Math Doesn’t Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail and quickly followed that up with Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who’s Boss in 2009, Hot X: Algebra Exposed in 2010, and Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape in 2012.

    According to Eilleen Pollack in her New York Times article “Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science?” McKellar “may well have done more to encourage girls to stick with math than any government task force.”

    But for now, McKellar will pursue slightly less academic ventures as she heads to the Dancing with the Stars ballroom.


    Image via Danica McKellar, Instagram

  • Danica McKellar, “The Wonder Years” Star, Joins DWTS

    If you are not engulfed within the mathematical world, it has probably been a long time since you have heard the name “Danica McKellar.” The name may sound familiar to you if you were a fan of the late-eighties’ comedy/drama The Wonder Years when McKellar starred as “Winnie Cooper,” the love interest of the show’s main character Kevin Arnold (played by Fred Savage). Now, McKellar steps onto the ballroom for season 18 of ABC’s Dancing With The Stars.

    On Tuesday, March 4th, Good Morning America announced the cast list for the dance-reality show Dancing With The Stars‘ 18th season. The announcement of the new season’s cast was presented by Tom Bergeron and the show’s new co-host Erin Andrews. As the season 18 cast lineup was presented, a lot of familiar names and faces came to mind, including The Wonder Years‘ McKellar, who was announced first.

    McKellar also published the announcement of her debut on Dancing With The Stars on Twitter, and also announced that she will be paired with pro-dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy:

    Elizabeth Berkley, another 80’s pop icon who Val has previously danced with, tweeted her excitement in cheering on his new partner for season 18:

    During the season 18 cast announcement on Good Morning America, McKellar praised the dancing show and offered the following statement pertaining to her upcoming journey:

    “I hope they’ll be there for me. I’ve been a fan of Dancing With The Stars since the very beginning. I’m just thrilled and I hope to do a good job.”

    Besides McKellar’s involvement with The Wonder Years, the summa cum laude UCLA graduate has been involved within the mathematics world, publishing various books for adolescent audiences on the challenging topics of algebra and geometry.

    Dancing With The Stars Season 18 premieres on March 17th on ABC.

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