- NAME
- Tamara Gaskin
- AGE
- 23
- POSITION
- Editorial assistant/staff reporter
- BEEN WITH THE ROANOKE TIMES
- Since 2005
- GREW UP IN
- Richmond, VA
- BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW
- I was a competitive gymnast for 10 years
- FAVORITE TV SHOW
- "Friday Night Lights"
- FAVORITE MUSIC
- Anything by Common, Mos Def, Feist, Sia, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone
- CELEBRITY INCIDENT
- While sightseeing in London, my friends and I met the entire cast of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." They were super-friendly and even gave us cookies!
- CELEBRITY INCIDENT, PART DEUX
- When I was six, my dad couldn't help me with my loose tooth because he was too busy chatting on the phone with Lionel Richie (thanks, Dad!). They grew up together in the same Alabama neighborhood and have kept in touch ever since.