Carson Jones Daly was born in Santa Monica, California, on Friday, June 22, 1973, at 9:30 AM Pacific time. The hospital he was delivered at on the 2nd floor was called St. Johns. He came into the world weighing 9lbs. and 8ozs. His mother, now Patricia Daly-Caruso, had to have a C-Section when her son was born.
Carson is from a family of four. He has an older sister named Quinn, who was three years old when he was born. He has a mother named Patricia, and a father named Richard. When Carson was five years old, his biological father, J.D, died of gallbladder cancer. A little later, it had struck Carson that his dad wasn't with him in his life. Now he has a step-father, Richard Caruso. Patricia re-married to him.
Carson has an education of k-12 and has been to a semester of college. The college he attended was Loyola Marymount University. He went there to study theology because he wanted to become a Roman-Catholic priest. The junior high school he went to was Lincoln Junior High, and the high school he went to was Santa Monica High School. Santa Monica High School was also called SAMOHI.
When Carson was younger...
-he'd go into Quinn's room and get the book called 'Are You There, God, It's Me, Margret.' Then he would read it.
-he skateboarded a lot.
-he got a surfboard for Christmas and used it in the same day.
-girls were just "friends" to him and said he was a good listener while they "stared over his shoulder at a hot guy."
-he worked at these radio stations: KCMJ, LIVE 105, KOME, and KROQ
-he imitated Nellie from Little House on the Prarie when he stood in front of a mirror
-he says he was a weird kid
-he was the pitcher for a baseball team and this girl named Kelly was the catcher and she'd throw the ball harder to him than he did to her
-at Loyola Marymount University, he had Whelan Hall for a dormitory.
-he wouldn't just hang out with one group of people; he'd hang out with everybody
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-Carson is 6'2"
-he is single
-he has dark brown hair
-he wears contacts
-his shoe size is 11 1/2
-he is 30 years old
-he has been working at MTV for four years
-MTV recruited him, and Carson was taking all risks for a chance to work there
-he likes the book, 'Cathedral' by Nelson Demille
-his greatest fear is..."Divorce. I would hate to invest time with someone you think is a soul-mate, only to have something go wrong and lose it-especially if there are kids involved."
-his friends say his best quality is his loyalty
-he hates flying
-on July 4th, 2000, he was at a barbecue, and Patricia and his now ex-girlfriend, bonded
-he says his best moment was "seeing O.J. run"
-he called Madonna a 'big mouth' on TRL because she started commenting on some tabloid article that said he was going out with Christina Aguilera, which isn't true and wasn't true
-he has a tattoo on his lower-right arm, and it has a picture of a cross, a Corvette, and checkered flags, because J.D. used to sell Corvettes
-he stayed home the night of his senior prom because nobody asked him, so he watched 60 Minutes with his step-dad instead
-he loves golf and is good at it
-every morning when he was a teen, he would go out and hit golf balls, and not party and do other crazy stuff that people his age did
-he plays the guitar
-he has his own song called 'Cadillac' and raps to it
-his mother always told him that "nothing good happens after midnight"
-Carson says that he feels better when he says hi to the fans before starting a show on TRL
-he says he sucks at playing guitar
-he went on his first trip to Ireland on the weekend of August 25-26, 2001. Ireland is his home country, and he thought it was fun. He went with his mom and a buddy, and he saw family and some bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, and Coldplay
-he loves Puddle of Mudd's "Control"
-he sat in the 6th row @ the 2001 MTV VMA's
-he says that someday he’d like to move to Stankonia
-he won Choice TV Personality & Choice Reality Show from the Teen Choice Awards on Aug. 20, 01. He was up against Johnny Knoxville, Jimmy Fallon, and Mandy Lauderdale for the Choice TV Personality.
-Carson likes girls with pigtails, girls that wear beanies, and girls that dress up like nurses
