10 THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT TIM McGRAW
COUNTRY music hunk Tim McGraw has saddled up as patriarch James
Dutton in the Yellowstone prequel 1883, which debuted this month on Paramount+. He shares screen time with real-life wife Faith Hill, who plays his character’s spouse.
The Live Like You Were Dying singer made his acting debut in a 1997 episode of The Jeff Foxworthy Show and has been steadily building his second career ever since. Here are ten things you don’t know about the 54-yearold performer.
1 He didn’t know his biological father was New York Mets pitcher Tug McGraw until age
11 — when he accidentally came across his birth certificate.
2 The ballplayer denied being his dad until Tim turned 18 — but the two developed a close relationship as adults that lasted until the retired jock’s death from brain cancer in 2004.
3 He attended Northeast Louisiana University on a baseball scholarship — but a knee injury kept him from pursuing a pro career.
4 The day his musical hero Keith Whitley died in 1989, Tim dropped out of college and moved to Nashville to take a stab at a recording career.
5 He learned to play guitar in college, but claims his roommates often hid the instrument from him because he was so terrible.
6 He got his first tattoo at age 22 when he was drunk — a leprechaun wearing a cowboy hat.
7 He and Faith own Goat Cay, a private island in the Bahamas. They recently put it on the market for $35 million.
8 In 2006, he received a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. The plaque is near those of Julie Andrews, William Shatner and Greta
Garbo.
9 He holds a private pilot license and flies a singleengine Cirrus SR22.
10 He’s the godfather of Garrett Hedlund and Emma Roberts’ first child, son Rhodes, who was born in December 2020.