Carey Hart and wife Pink seem to have different recollections of a 2002 Saturday Night Live afterparty.
“When my wife and I were first dating, she did Saturday Night Live, and there was an afterparty,” Hart, 49, reveals exclusively in his 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me feature in the latest issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now. “I met Drew Barrymore, my childhood crush, and we chatted for a bit. My wife swears I was flirting with her, but I don’t remember that! Around that same time, my wife and I did cameos in Charlie’s Angels.”
Pink, 45, appeared on the January 12, 2002, episode of the sketch comedy show for the first time, during which Josh Hartnett made his hosting debut and Pink performed “Get The Party Started” and “Don’t Let Me Get Me.” Hart and the singer had met the previous summer at the X Games and began dating shortly thereafter.
One year after the SNL episode — and the couple’s run-in with Barrymore, 49 — Pink and Hart appeared in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle alongside the actress.
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While his day job is racing, Hart returns to the screen again this month on season 3 of FOX’s Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, which premieres on Wednesday, January 8, at 8 p.m. ET.
“It was definitely the mental side,” Hart tells Us of the most difficult part of the show, which replicates real U.S. Special Forces military training. “To relinquish all of your freedom and decision making, becoming a number, not knowing when it was safe to shower, change your kit or knowing when the day was over [was difficult].”
For more personal stories from Hart — including the proudest moment of his career — keep scrolling:
1. My No. 1 artist on my 2024 Spotify Wrapped was Pennywise, a SoCal punk rock band.
2. Besides my wife, [Pink], Tony Hawk [and] Jon Bernthal are the most famous people in my phone book.
3. I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions, but I’d like to manage stress better. My life is chaotic with balancing family life and two careers. I’m trying to let the little stuff go!
4. I built Pink a custom Indian motorcycle, and there’s no better way to enjoy each other’s [company] than on two wheels.
5. I started riding at 4 years old. My family wasn’t really into traditional sports other than baseball. It’s what we did as a family, living in Vegas in the late ‘70s and ‘80s. It became serious at age 12, pretty much a job at that point. I raced an average of about 45 weekends a year all over the south and west coasts. The day after I graduated high school, I packed my van, moved to California and turned pro four weeks later.
6. My favorite comfort meal is cream of chicken soup, simmered in a pound of ground beef, over mashed potatoes.
7. My secret talent is that I’m filled with useless information.
8. My favorite books are Anthony Kiedis’ Scar Tissue and Matthew McConaughey’s Greenlights.
9. One of my coolest celebrity moments was in the early 2000s, when Brad Pitt and his son showed up to my race shop and office. My good friend was building Brad a custom motorcycle, and we all hung out in the shop with my mechanics.
10. When my wife and I were first dating, she did Saturday Night Live, and there was an afterparty. I met Drew Barrymore, my childhood crush, and we chatted for a bit. My wife swears I was flirting with her, but I don’t remember that! Around that same time, my wife and I did cameos in Charlie’s Angels.
11. My go-to fast-food order is two of Wienerschnitzel’s deluxe dogs and two corn dogs.
12. At the end of my race career in 1998, I enrolled in community college and was going to be an accountant. Then, I was asked to do the first freestyle motocross demo on Warped Tour and FMX blew up that summer, [so] I dropped out to pursue FMX.
13. The proudest moment of my career is being a professional motocross rider — a very old one at that — and custom motorcycle builder. The fact that I still get paid to ride a motorcycle 31 years after turning pro still blows my mind.
14. My most valuable possession is the original bike that I rode when I did my first backflip in 2000 at the Gravity Games. I rode the same bike the next year when I had a horrible crash going for my second flip at the X Games. After I healed up from the crash, I swapped out the parts that were broken, and retired the bike. It sat on the mantle in my living room for a few years. Now, it’s hanging upside down from the roof rafters in my shop where I build Indian motorcycles.
15. The movies I could watch for the rest of my life are The Breakfast Club, Rocketman and Popstar.
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16. The three items I can’t leave the house without are my wallet, pocket knife and hoodie.
17. Face to Face’s song “Disconnected” reminds me of traveling the country in my van, chasing the supercross and motocross series from 1995 to 1998. I was sleeping in my van four to five nights a week and couch surfing around the country for 30 weeks. I didn’t have two quarters to rub together, but it was a pretty amazing time.
18. I was really good at math in school, but I’m dyslexic and struggled with reading early on. I still struggle to read out loud.
19. My first job was taping and finishing drywall at 12 years old for my pop’s a–hole friends in construction. He wanted to get the point across to me that I need to make money on my motorcycle or with my brain. He owned an asphalt paving company — arguably one of the most brutal jobs and environment in Vegas. I always said I would rob bands before I went to work for him.
20. My ideal vacation is a staycation at home — with no one knowing I’m there — riding my motocross track, shooting skeet and barbecuing with the family.
21. I saved all of my early custom painted helmets and any helmer that had importance to me over the last 30 years. I have about 50 of them hanging in my workshop.
22. The one item left on my bucket list is supporting my son in kart racing. My best memories as a kid were at the races and I look forward to having similar [ones] with my son. He is hooked on driving.
23. The app I use the most is Pandora. I’m a tech dinosaur, so I have my ‘90s punk rock, Led Zeppelin and hip hop BBQ playlists in the background while I’m building bikes.
24. I have a pretty solid suffer rate, and I like to put a hurting on myself with workouts via all kinds of biking or trail walking.
25. The childhood memory that makes me smile is going to Lake Mead or Lake Havasu any weekend I wasn’t racing. I was a river rat and loved to be on the water.
