Erin Andrews Biography
Erin Andrews is an American sportscaster and television personality working for Fox Sports as an NFL reporter. He joined the Fox Sports team in 2012, after previously working for ESPN.
Erin Andrews Career
Andrews was a part of the National Honor Society, student government, and dance team at Bloomingdale High School in Valrico. She also went to the Brandon School of Dance Arts in Seffner, Florida, as a child. According to Andrews, she was a tomboy in high school and didn’t have many female friends. Instead, she preferred to hang out with the guys and enjoyed talking sports with them. Andrews attended the University of Florida after completing her high school education in 1996. There, he earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in telecommunications in 2000. She belonged to the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority and, from 1997 to 2000, the Florida Gators Dazzlers dance team while she was an undergraduate.
Andrews worked as a freelance reporter for Fox Sports Florida in 2000. She worked for the Sunshine Network as a Tampa Bay Lightning reporter from 2001 to 2002. As a studio host and reporter for the Turner South network, Andrews covered the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Thrashers, and Atlanta Hawks from 2002 to 2004. In April of 2004, Andrews started working for ESPN as a reporter for ESPN National Hockey Night. She has also written reports for the Great Outdoor Games, Little League World Series, and College World Series. In 2005, Andrews’ duties as a sideline reporter for Big Ten college basketball games and ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime extended to include reporting for Major League Baseball and ESPN College Football Thursday Primetime.
She covered the Scripps National Spelling Bee live for ESPN and ABC between 2008 and 2010. Alongside partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Andrews participated in the tenth season of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars in 2010. Out of 11 couples, they came in third place. Andrews signed an endorsement contract with Reebok in January 2011 to help the company promote its ZigTech brand. Andrews noticed that the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs football players were slipping on the turf due to their new Nike shoes two weeks earlier while covering the Rose Bowl as a sideline reporter. The revised endorsement guidelines for ESPN’s journalists were announced in response to the perceived conflict of interest, and Andrews was mandated to terminate her endorsement deal with Reebok by the end of 2011.
Former ESPN executive Keith Clinkscales sued ESPN Vice President Joan Lynch in November 2011 on the grounds that Clinkscales had engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior with Andrews during a flight earlier that year. According to reports, Andrews told several people about the incident but decided not to follow up with ESPN’s HR department. This is because she was still traumatized by the revelation of her experiences being stalked. Although she hadn’t appeared on the show since covering the Oscars in February 2011, Andrews had been an ABC Good Morning America correspondent since 2010. She also hosted the first hour of ESPN’s College GameDay on ESPNU.
The news that Andrews would be joining Fox Sports and departing ESPN became crear on June 29, 2012. The first host of Fox College Football’s studio program, she was joined by analysts Joey Harrington and Eddie George. In addition, Andrews started contributing to Fox NFL Sunday. She covered most of the major sporting events that Fox televised. They include the Daytona 500, the World Series, the MLB All-Star Game, and the NFL Playoffs. After Fox Sports 1 debuted on August 17, 2013, Andrews started hosting Fox College Football Kickoff and Fox College Saturday as a guest host. These programs directly compete with ESPN College Gameday, which provides previews of the biggest college football games of the weekend. Additionally, Andrews contributed to Fox Football, a daily studio program.
Andrews took over Pam Oliver’s position as a sideline reporter on Fox’s primary NFL broadcasting team beginning with the 2014 NFL season. In 2016, she signed on again with Fox Sports, this time to work exclusively with the NFL team on the network. Andrews joined Tom Bergeron as co-host of Dancing with the Stars for the 18th season in March 2014, taking Brooke Burke-Charvet’s place. The 28th season of the show saw her and Bergeron stay in their respective roles. In addition, Andrews has co-hosted the CMT Music Awards twice: on June 10, 2015, she hosted the event alongside actress Brittany Snow, and on June 8, 2016, she co-hosted it with NFL player J. J. Watt. Since 2021, she and Charissa Thompson have been co-hosts of the Calm Down podcast.
In 2010, Andrews came to represent Kraft Foods in the Huddle to Fight Hunger campaign, which brought in $2.86 million for Feeding America. To start a new nationwide campaign called Girls Night Out, Andrews partnered with StubHub, the biggest online ticket marketplace in the world, in October 2011. In response to the tornadoes that struck Oklahoma on April 27, 2013, she co-hosted the Music Builds: CMT Disaster Relief Concert on the CMT network, which aimed to raise funds for the American Red Cross.
Andrews was announced as the new face of CoverGirl at the start of the 2014 NFL season. The two brands collaborated on the #Gameface promotion, in which the winner would be given the chance to win two tickets to the 2015 Super Bowl. In October of 2016, Andrews was appointed as an Orangetheory Fitness ambassador. Andrews and Fanatics collaborated on a clothing line in October 2019.
Erin Andrews Salary
Andrews earns an annual salary of $8 million from her broadcasting gigs.
Erin Andrews Net Worth
Andrews has an estimated net worth of about $40 Million which she has earned through her career as a sportscaster and television personality.
Erin Andrews Age
Andrews was born on May 4, 1978, in Lewiston, Maine, United States. She is 45 years old as of 2023 and she celebrates her birthday on the 4th of May every year.
Erin Andrews Height and Weight
Andrews stands a a height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 meters) and weighs 64 kgs (141 lbs).
Erin Andrews Family
Andrews was born in Lewiston, Maine, to broadcast journalist Steven Andrews and teacher Paula Andrews. When she was five years old, her family relocated to San Antonio, Texas. 18 months later, when her father—a six-time Emmy Award winner—began working as an investigative reporter for NBC affiliate WFLA-TV, the family moved to Valrico, Florida.
Erin Andrews Husband and Children
Andrews currently resides in Los Angeles, California, having previously resided in Atlanta, Georgia. Playboy magazine named her “America’s sexiest sportscaster” in 2007 and 2008. In December 2012, she started dating professional hockey player Jarret Stoll. The pair tied the knot on June 24, 2017, having become engaged in December 2016.
Erin Andrews Fox Sports
While working for Fox Sports Andrews co-anchors alongside:
Erin Andrews Cancer
Andrews revealed in January 2017 that she had undergone treatment after receiving a cervical cancer diagnosis in September 2016. She underwent two surgeries before being declared cancer-free. Although Andrews and Stoll had not talked about getting married or starting a family when she received her diagnosis, she claims it accelerated their relationship. Andrews and Stoll decided to carry out their in-vitro fertilization (IVF) plan for fertility.
Through surrogacy, Andrews’ son was born in July 2023. Following her cancer battle and publicizing her story, she collaborated with Hologic, a company that specializes in women’s health diagnostics, to start a campaign. The “We Can Change This STAT” campaign urges men to support the women in their lives by encouraging them to take their yearly physicals and by encouraging women to visit the doctor.
Erin Andrews Social Media Platform
Andrews is very active on her Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. She has 2.6M followers on Twitter 2.2M followers on Instagram, and 959.8k followers on Facebook.