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In the November 2002 "Jonathan Jackson Still Single" article contained an error. We have been informed that Jonathan has recently married Lisa Vultaggio.

Jonathan Jackson is happily "taken" now
Nov-2002

20-year-old Jonathan Jackson, best known for his role as Lucky Spencer on ABC's daytime soap opera "General Hospital" married Lisa Vultaggio, 29, also a former star of "General Hospital" in June 2002. The couple was last spotted at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in San Francisco in August promoting Jackson's new movie "Tuck Everlasting". He has been on an exhausting press tour -- six cities in six days.

He had been napping with his wife in their room on the hotel's secured eighth floor. When he went down to meet the press, he's dressed comfortably, clad in a gray printed T-shirt, black leather jacket, jeans and athletic shoes.

"I just grabbed this shirt and put it on," he says to the photographer. His dirty-blond hair, shorter than in "Tuck," which helps display his boyish good looks, is slicked back on the sides with gel.

"Tuck Everlasting," which is based on Natalie Babbitt's award-winning children's book, is the story of Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel of "The Gilmore Girls"), who stumbles across the Tuck family and learns their closely guarded secret, which could affect her relationship with one of the Tuck sons, Jesse (Jackson). The film's cast also includes Academy Award-winners William Hurt, Sissy Spacek and Ben Kingsley. The movie brings up weighty philosophical issues pertaining to immortality and death. These are things to which Jackson has given some thought, due to his religious beliefs.

Aside from the entertainment industry, Jackson is passionate about his religion, Christianity, and enjoys ministering to young people through Wildbranch, a nonprofit foundation that advises the teaching of both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. "My brother and I go to different schools and talk and encourage young kids," he says. "I hope to keep that stuff in motion. It is kind of what I'm most passionate about." But right now, Jackson and new wife Vultaggio, who has taken a break from acting, are just enjoying their time together. "She probably will act once in a while, but she's not really pursuing it, he says. "We're just having fun being married."