He's a Hollywood Heartthrob. He's from here. And when he comes home for a visit, few young women get through the front door of his parents' Sherwood Park home.
But it's not for the lack of trying.
Scott Vickaryous's mom has been turning away young people and screening calls for her Breaker High heartbreaker -- and it's gotten worse the last two months.
"I don't answer the phone and I don't answer the door," says Scott. "As far as anyone's concerned I'm not in town. I don't live here, which is really hard sometimes."
The phone rings while the 22-year old sits on the backyard patio step at his parents', where he onced lived. His hand hovered above the phone, before pulling it away.
"I better not," he says, and lets his mom Donna get it. He stops in mid-sentence. Sure enough, it's a young fan for him. "Scott doesn't live here," she says to the caller. Vickaryous isn't complaining.
"It's great that everyone from my hometown is really supportive," says the former local football and wrestling star, who traded in his jock strap for TV stardom.
"It's really flattering. I still think of myself as the same guy who went to school in Sherwood Park and hung out with his friends, and nobody knew who he was.
"But my parents need to have privacy too, right? And that happens even when I'm not in town."
Vickaryous was back in town last week visiting family and friends, before heading to Vancouver.
He left Sherwood Park two years ago for Vancouver to take acting lessons. Before that, he tried modelling in Toronto, but was too short at five feet nine inches.
A year ago he docked a role on Breaker High, a "Beverly Hills 90210 meets the Love Boat" TV show, where students attend high school on a ship. Vickaryous plays the captain's son, Max Ballard, a hot babe with an attitude.
The show was recently cancelled, but reruns air daily and it remains popular anong teenagers.
With chiselled good looks, clean-cut Vickaryous appears everything a young impressionable girl would want in a dreamboat.
And he's single.
"I have the worst luck with women," says Vickaryous, modestly. "I cannot find women."
He says it's difficult to meet someone because he's always moving around. "I think if I found the right person I can make the time. I think you always can."
Having a family and going to university -- for what, he doesn't know -- to have something to fall back on if acting doesn't work out are Vickaryous' long term priorities.
But he hasn't given up on Hollywood.
"I just try and enjoy it, try and experience all I can and have fun. That's my outlook on life."
Two made for TV movies are coming out this fall, and his agent says there is another project being negotiated this week.
"He's managed to get himeself into a few very special places in his life already," says mom Donna. "I'm real proud of the job he's done."
But to mom and all his friends and young neighbours, stardom hasn't changed the Salisbury Composite high school graduate. He's still "just Scott."
"I see all these girls screaming over him," says Chad Martin, a best friend since grade 9.
Martin, 23, a DJ for Power 92 radio, played football with Vickaryous in high school.
"Scott was your cute, little loveable teddy bear kind of guy," Martin says, adding the football team picked on him a bit because of his size.
Unlike his character Max, Vickaryous doesn't seem to have a bad attitude.
He wouldn't pose in his new black Ford Cobra convertible for a photo.
"I don't want it to seem materialistic. Because I'm not. That's not what I'm about. Money doesn't matter. Family and friends do. It's basically just a hunk of metal."
For his parents, who run a business from their home, the calls -- although appreciated -- can be a bit of a nuisance.
We've had so many phone calls," says his mom. "Sometimes I'm clicking off of a business conversation to try to explain to a young voice that he doesn't live here."
Donna Vickaryous says the young fans accept it fairly well, adding she understands they're just hoping that Scott might answer.
Vickaryous says he answered his parents' line once and a young female voice was on the other end.
"She said. 'I'm sorry I have the wrong number' and hung up. But I'm positive it was for me. I don't know what I would have done if she recognized my voice."
For all the female fans who want to live vicariously, he wears Gucci cologne and he smells great.