Name Britt McHenry Role Sports Reporter | Height 1.78 m | |
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Full Name Brittany May McHenry Born May 28, 1986 (age 38) ( 1986-05-28 ) Mount Holly Township, New Jersey, United States Occupation Television sports reporter Similar People Lindsay Czarniak, Charissa Thompson, Sara Walsh, Samantha Ponder, Erin Andrews Profiles | ||
Espn reporter britt mchenry suspended for foul mouthed rant
Brittany May "Britt" McHenry (born May 28, 1986) is an American sports reporter who worked for ESPN as a Washington, D.C.-based reporter. She was laid off as part of the ESPN layoffs that occurred beginning April 26, 2017.
Contents
- Espn reporter britt mchenry suspended for foul mouthed rant
- Watch ESPNs Britt McHenry Insults Towing Company Employee msnbc
- Early life
- Career
- Verbal abuse controversy
- References
Watch: ESPN's Britt McHenry Insults Towing Company Employee | msnbc
Early life
McHenry was born in Mount Holly Township, New Jersey. After graduating from Satellite High School in Satellite Beach, Florida in 2004, where she was a member of the soccer team with future professional player Ashlyn Harris, McHenry attended Stetson University and played on the Hatters soccer team as a midfielder for the 2004 season. After graduating magna cum laude in 2007 from Stetson, McHenry went on to Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. At Medill, McHenry started covering stories in Chicago, Illinois.
Career
After graduating from journalism school, McHenry began her career working for WJLA-TV, ABC Television's Washington affiliate, and its sister station NewsChannel 8 as a sports reporter and fill-in anchor. After two weeks at Fox Sports San Diego as a dugout reporter on the San Diego Padres telecasts, she returned to ABC 7. In March 2014, she left ABC 7 to join ESPN as a Washington, D.C.-based bureau reporter. She served as correspondent for various shows including SportsCenter, Outside the Lines, NFL Live and Baseball Tonight. On April 27, 2017, McHenry announced on Twitter that she was being let go by ESPN, with the NFL Draft being her last assignment. Two months later, she tweeted that one of the reasons she was terminated was because she was a conservative, even though close to 100 other staffers including many well known broadcasters were also let go.
Verbal abuse controversy
On April 16, 2015, a sequence of video segments of McHenry verbally abusing a tow lot employee, Joey Dillon, was posted on LiveLeak. In the video, McHenry announces that she is a TV reporter, makes numerous disparaging remarks about the employee's appearance, makes fun of the employee's job, ridicules what she thinks is the employee's level of education, and threatens to sue. "Maybe if I was missing some teeth they would hire me, huh?" she asks.
McHenry later apologized on Twitter, writing: "In an intense and stressful moment, I allowed my emotions to get the best of me and said some insulting and regrettable things... I am so sorry for my actions and will learn from this mistake." In response to the incident, ESPN suspended McHenry from the network for one week.
A day later, the towing company released a statement saying they did not want to see McHenry suspended or terminated as a result of her comments.