Jack Scalfani

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Jack Russell Scalfani
Jack posing in 2022.
Born	(1967-12-12) December 12, 1967
Residence	2006 Highland Drive, Greenbrier TN
Aliases	jakatak DJ Jack Attack
Spouse	Karen Welch Todd (ex) Tammy Scalfani (1998-current)
Children	Garrett Scalfani (1990) Jack Scalfani II (2000)
Parents	Connie Scalfani† Unknown biological father Otis Blair (stepdad)
Siblings	Charles Scalfani Jim Scalfani Phyllis Geraci Graziano

Jack Russell Scalfani (born 12 December 1967) is an American YouTube food creator and reviewer, failed DJ and producer, ex-sauce entrepreneur and a five-time stroke survivor.

An early adopter of YouTube, Jack found a modest audience in the mid-2000s as one of the platform's first cooking personalities. His refusal to develop beyond that era's format - combined with a stated rivalry with chefs such as Chef John, Sam the Cooking Guy, and Babish, none of whom appear to be aware of him - has left his channels in long-term decline as the broader food-creator space has grown past him.

Jack's cooking is characterised by heavy reliance on processed ingredients, a pronounced preference for meat and cheese in volume, and a consistent disregard for established technique. His reviewing follows a similar pattern, employing a personal rating scale of his own invention. Critical feedback is typically dismissed as "hate," a position Jack has maintained through five strokes, the collapse of his sauce line, the Whisk raid, and other episodes documented across this wiki under the banner of "Food, Family and Fun."

Early life

Jack was born in 12 December 1967, being the third and final child of Connie Scalfani. Jack's biological father left early in his life due to unspecified reasons, so Jack was raised by his stepdad Otis. The Scalfani family was poor and relied on food stamps to get by.

Jack attended John F. Kennedy High School in La Palma, California, while having computer lessons at Cypress College on the side.

Career

DJing and radio work

Immediately upon finishing high school, Jack took up DJing at nightclubs for seven years. Jack became a radio host at 94.3 KIK FM in the early 1990's, known as DJ Jack Attack, where he hosted a show titled "Loving, Losing or Leaving". Jack claims the radio career went south after he mocked Disney's The Mighty Ducks film franchise during a segment, with Disney supposedly forcing the radio company to fire Jack and erase all master tapes of his shows.

GiveMeEntertainment

In 2001, Jack started a production company named GiveMeEntertainent (originally named überBubble), providing voiceover work and other assistance. The company was the distributor of the 2011 film Solitary by Greg Derochie, which also happened to be co-written by Jack's brother Charles.

The Best Sauces

Main article: The Best Sauces

Jack owned a line of sauces and seasoning called The Best Sauces You'll Ever Taste. The company dissolved around 2021.

YouTube

See also: YouTube channels

In 2007, Jack uploaded a three-part cooking tip series on YouTube, showing how to cut a pineapple, cut an onion without crying, and peel an egg. The following year, he began uploading more tips and product reviews, using the videos as a way to shill his line of sauces, birthing the Cooking with Jack Show.

Personal life

Jack currently lives at 2006 Highland Drive with Tammy, right next to 103 Thomas Court where Junior and Brianna live.

Jack is a registered Republican.

Controversies

Child abuse

On an episode of the now-defunct Christian podcast Sunday Evening Coffee, Jack disclosed that he had abused his elder son, Garrett, due to Garrett's marijuana use. Jack alleged that Garrett began using marijuana while interning at a computer store in Huntington Beach, California. According to Jack, Garrett's marijuana consumption led to severe anger management issues and frequent verbal attacks on his stepmother Tammy. Jack accused Garrett of physically confronting both him and Tammy on two separate occasions. He described the first incident, saying he subdued Garrett by forcibly taking him to the ground. In a subsequent altercation, when Garrett allegedly pushed Tammy against a door, Jack recounted how he tackled Garrett to the ground again, threatening his life by forcefully choking him and screaming into his ear. Jack claimed the choking was so intense that it caused Garrett's nose to bleed.

Food safety

On a now-deleted 2016 Cooking with Jack video, Jack had a guest named Kevin showcase an unsafe canning method, which could result in botulism.

Endorsement of a murderer

Jack, a performative Christian, is a long-time member and public booster of Cornerstone Church in Madison, Tennessee, an Assemblies of God megachurch led for 27 years by Maury Davis. Jack has, on multiple occasions, promoted a book authored by Davis recounting his "redemption" testimony: a testimony that begins with the events of 27 January 1975.

On that date, an 18-year-old Davis and an accomplice, Ricky Payne, entered a vacant house in Irving, Texas, under the pretence of inspecting it for purchase. The home was being shown to them by Jo Ella Liles, a 54-year-old Sunday School teacher whose husband managed the property. After Davis spilled paint on his boots, he stabbed Liles repeatedly with a buck knife, severing her carotid artery and windpipe and slicing into her spinal cord, nearly decapitating her. Payne witnessed the killing without intervening. Davis then took his bloodied clothes to a dry cleaner and went to lunch. He was arrested the following day and admitted his guilt to his father by phone, saying, "Daddy, I'm in jail for murder. And I'm guilty."

Despite the prosecution seeking the electric chair or life imprisonment, Davis's defence - which blamed the killing on insanity, drug use and demonic influence - secured a manslaughter conviction with a maximum 20-year sentence. He was paroled after serving roughly eight and a half years, citing prison overcrowding and good behaviour, and was a free man at age 27. He claims to have undergone a jailhouse conversion to Christianity during the trial.

Davis became senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in 1991, when it had approximately 250 members, and grew it into a megachurch with a 3,200-seat sanctuary and a televised ministry.He stepped down from the senior pastor role in 2018 and now operates as a "global pastor," travelling and consulting. Ron Liles, the only son of Jo Ella Liles, has described watching Davis preach as watching "Satan's angel," telling the Nashville Scene in 2009 that "the price of his spiritual rebirth, his professed salvation, was the blood" of his mother.

Jack and his family continue to attend Cornerstone Church and have appeared in the congregation across multiple decades of his content. He has at no point in his public output addressed the Liles murder, the trial, the manslaughter plea, or Ron Liles' position on his pastor.

Gallery

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  An oddly Mexican-looking child Jack riding a bike.

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  Jack's yearbook photo. Some say that this may be his undocumented first stroke.

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  Young Jack sporting his DJ look.

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  An old group photo, with Jack likely the third person, along with an interesting comment from him.

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  Jack and Tammy's wedding from August 1998.

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  Jack and Tammy in 2000 holding awards from the KACC Bowling League.

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  A group photo of the Scalfani siblings from an unknown date.

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  An old profile picture used by Jack on sites like Vimeo.

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  Jack and Tammy sometime in the 2010s.

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  Jack on a voter data aggregation system. Note that these hardly ever appear filled out for normal people.

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  According to the aforementioned system, Jack is the tertiary force in the Scalhousehold.

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  Jack fresh off his fifth stroke.