Zack Carpinello, known also as Zack Clayton is an American professional wrestler and boyfriend of a famous reality TV star JWoow.
Early life, family, starting career
Zack Carpinello was born on 20 December 1994, in Albany County, Bethlehem, New York USA. Zack has a sister. Her name is Erica and she is older than him. He finished high school in Bethlehem Central School in 2013, where he was playing football.
He continued in Hudson Valley Community College and spent two years in Your Face Wrestling Foundation in Albany. Carpinello also attended Johnny Rodz’s wrestling school in Brooklyn, where he got the skills and knowledge that needed him to go up in his career.
‘After high school, I always knew I wanted to do it,’ said Carpinello in an interview for Spotlight news. ‘I was an athlete all the way through high school, up until college. I knew I didn’t want to continue football’. He was training fitness very hard and he said that it was the most natural thing he has ever done. He was watching wrestling for a long time and was amazed by the size of the wrestlers. ‘The end goal is to get to WWE — to be a champion there, to be the best I absolutely can be’, highlighted Carpinello. Zack Clayton is the name he uses in the ring. Actually, Clayton is his middle name.
He had to promote a character for himself, so he decided to take this name and to stay authentic. His character is a bad guy. In every match there is a bad and good guy. Carpinello can perform both, but he prefers the “bad guy”. He was wrestling in the Spanish leagues Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA). So, Clayton appeared on Telemundo few times.
Carpinello also trains athletes in Top Form. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Personal life
In March 2019 Zack Carpinello started dating Jennifer Lynn Farley, also known as JWoow. She is an American reality TV star, nine years older than him. Farley has almost seven million followers on Instagram, so when she announced her new relationship, Carpinello found himself in the spotlight. So, he is also known as JWoow’s boyfriend. But, they have a mutual friend, his sister Erica. ‘She’s been one of my friends since I was 15, and I met her in the principal’s office because we both got in trouble. And cut to 20 years later, I’m now dating her brother, so it’s fun’, Farley said on the MTV VMA Red carpet last year.
Carpinello’s nickname is “24” thanks to his girlfriend and it’s referring his age at the time. He got it while Farley was filming Jersey Shore revival.
Girlfriend Jennifer Lynn Farley
Farley was born on 27 February 1986 in East Greenbush, New York. She finished high school in Columbia School and continued at New York Institute of Technology. She started her career in Graphic Design business. But she went on an audition for Jersey Shores, MTV reality series and in 2009 with seven others housemates she became part of the series.
The first and the third seasons were filmed in New Jersey, the second in Miami, Florida, the fourth in Florence, Italy and the final two back in New Jersey. Farley published in 2010 a book “The Rules according to JWoow: Shore-tested secrets on landing a Mint Guy, Staying Fresh to Death and Kicking the Competition to the Curb”.
In 2012 Farley and her costar from Jersey Shore, Nicole Polizzi started “Snooki&JWoow” on MTV. In 2015 they continued “Snooki&JWoow: Moms with attitude”.
The same year she won the seventh season of Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition. Her film debut was for an indie production “The Mint”. In 2013 Farley got in the GQ’s “Sexiest 100 ladies of the 21st Century”. Farley married Roger Mathews in 2015. Their daughter was born in 2014 and their son in 2016. Two years later she filed for divorce.
Last year in April she confirmed her new relationship, not revealing his identity. But, after a short time the public found out that the new boyfriend was a professional wrestler.
The couple often publishes photos of themselves on Instagram. In October last year Angelina Pivarnic, Farley’s friend and costar accused Carpinello for inappropriate behavior. It was all filmed on the episode of Jersey Shore:The vacation few month earlier, but aired in October. Farley found out as well as the audience. Zack issued a statement regarding this situation taking the responsibility and asking for an apology.
They broke up at the time and got back together in December.
Appearance
Zack Carpinello is 6ft 2 ins (1.88m) tall and weighs 191 lbs (87 kg). His vital statistics are 44-32-37 inches. He has strong, toned body. He wears shoe size 12. Carpinello has brown hair and blue eyes.
Social Media
Zack has an Instagram account since 2014 with 118,000 followers. In 2013 he joined Twitter and has almost 1500 followers. He has the same number of followers on Facebook.