She got the job, but when it was announced, the sports/entertainment distinction wasn’t publicised. “I was like, ‘Oh, that changed the whole thing for me’,” Guerrero said. She vividly remembers him saying it would not be an “X’s and O’s” sideline job, meaning she wouldn’t be required to analyse the games in great technical detail. He told her the job would focus on entertainment and football. He wore her down and, since she was travelling from Los Angeles to New York do to a lingerie cover shoot for men’s magazine FHM, she agreed to meet with Gaudelli. “Are you crazy? It’s Monday Night Football,” Guerrero recalled Lindner saying. When MNF called, she initially told her agent, Ken Lindner, to decline the chance. She had turned down opportunities to try it out during college football games for Fox Sports. What she wasn’t was a sideline reporter, and she did not want to be one. She had been a sportscaster for nearly a decade. Yes, she was attractive, but she was intelligent, too. However, the MNF executive producer at the time, Fred Gaudelli, noticed her work on Fox Sports’ Best Damn Sports Show. When the Monday Night Football hiring process began in 2003, she had no aspirations for the job. Guerrero has never before told her side of her Monday Night Football experience or its aftermath, bottling up her feelings for nearly two decades. She has won more than 30 national awards for investigative journalism.
She chased him down, which resulted in him returning the PPP loan, although he claims he made the purchase with other money. After Lamb accepted an $AUD5.1 million loan as part of the Paycheck Protection Program implemented to aid the economic recovery during the COVID-19 shutdown in America, Guerrero reported that Lamb bought a multimillion-dollar private jet. Recently, she reported on Marcus Lamb, a leader of one of the world’s largest religious networks, Daystar Television. She first flew home before going to urgent care. Guerrero was clipped by the dentist’s car as he drove off to avoid her interview. Nearly a decade ago, she went for an unscheduled interview with a paediatric dentist in Arizona, who was allegedly performing unnecessary procedures on young patients. Dustin Chauncy is in prison for 80 years to life. In 2012, her report led to a Nebraska man being tried and found guilty of intentional child abuse that led to a two-year-old’s death. “A lot of them are bad people, criminal and dangerous.” “Part of what I do now is to physically go out and confront people,” said Guerrero, 56. While someone unfamiliar with an investigative reporter’s role on a news/entertainment show might think it is fluff, her job certainly is not.
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The best way to describe Guerrero’s job description these days is: crusading reporter for American entertainment TV show Inside Edition. Guerrero was seen as a gimmick alongside NFL icons Al Michaels (left) and John Madden (right).įEARLESS REPORTER A WORLD AWAY FROM THE NFLīefore diving into yesteryear, it is probably best to start with today. It was not, however, the end of Lisa Guerrero. Since the move failed, the narrative stuck. She felt smothered.Ī former cheerleader for NFL team the LA Rams, actress, swimsuit model and magazine cover girl, she was presented by many, upon her 2003 MNF hiring, as a bimbo. She had fallen from working with iconic commentator Al Michaels and legendary NFL coach and broadcaster John Madden in prime time to a punchline. “I considered killing myself,” Guerrero told The New York Post. The hosts cackled, reading a column from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper that ransacked her name, focusing on her looks and calling her MNF’s “biggest liability ever”. Out of old habit, she mistakenly flipped on sports radio. One day, months after her firing, she drove on the Pacific Coast Highway in California. In 2004, after she lost her job, she tried to avoid sports entirely as she was in a fog, often unable to rise from bed in the morning, feeling bullied by criticism and taunts after being one-and-done on MNF - the brightest stage on the NFL scene. Since her mother died of lymphoma when Guerrero was eight, sports had been her bond with her father. She was humiliated and clinically depressed. Lisa Guerrero wasn’t sure she wanted to live anymore.Īfter one season as a sideline reporter in America for Monday Night Football, she was fired.
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