Erin Andrews

She and Bergeron remained in their roles through the show's 28th season.

Erin Jill Andrews (born May 4, 1978) is an American sportscaster and television personality.

Following graduation from high school in 1996, Andrews attended the University of Florida, graduating in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in telecommunications.

While in college, she was a member of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, and the Florida Gators Dazzlers dance team from 1997 to 2000.

In 2000, Andrews was employed by Fox Sports Florida as a freelance reporter.

From 2001 to 2002, she served as a Tampa Bay Lightning reporter for the Sunshine Network.

From 2002 to 2004, Andrews covered the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Thrashers, and Atlanta Hawks for the Turner South network as a studio host and reporter.

She rose to prominence as a correspondent on the American cable sports channel ESPN after joining the network in 2004.

Andrews began working for ESPN in April 2004 as a reporter for ESPN National Hockey Night.

She has also reported for the College World Series, Little League World Series, and Great Outdoor Games.

Andrews began serving as a sideline reporter for ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime and Big Ten college basketball games, and in 2005, her job expanded to include ESPN College Football Thursday Primetime and Major League Baseball sideline reporting.

From 2008 to 2010, she reported for ESPN's and ABC's live coverage of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

In 2010, she also gained further recognition from placing third on the tenth season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars and eventually co-hosted the show from 2014 to 2019 with Tom Bergeron.

Andrews was born in Lewiston, Maine, to Paula Andrews, a teacher, and Steven Andrews, a broadcast journalist.

Her family moved to San Antonio, Texas when she was 5 years old, and then to Valrico, Florida 18 months later, when her father, a six-time Emmy Award winner, began working as an investigative reporter for NBC affiliate WFLA-TV.

Andrews describes herself as a tomboy as a youth, living a life that always revolved around sports, watching NBA games with her father growing up, particularly Boston Celtics games.

Andrews cited Hannah Storm, Melissa Stark, Lesley Visser, and Suzy Kolber as female sportscasters she looked up to who ultimately inspired her to become a sportscaster herself.

Andrews attended Bloomingdale High School in Valrico, where she was a member of the dance team, student government, and the National Honor Society.

While growing up, she also attended the Brandon School of Dance Arts in Seffner, Florida.

Andrews has stated that being a tomboy, she did not have a lot of female friends in high school, opting to hang out with the boys, finding it more enjoyable to discuss sports with them.

In 2010, Andrews competed on the tenth season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars with partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy.

They placed third out of 11 couples.

Andrews hosted the first hour of ESPN's College GameDay on ESPNU, and had been a Good Morning America correspondent on ABC since 2010, though she had not appeared on the show since covering the Oscars in February 2011.

Andrews became a spokesperson for the Kraft Foods Huddle to Fight Hunger campaign in 2010, which raised $2.86 million for Feeding America.

In January 2011 Andrews signed an endorsement deal with Reebok to promote its ZigTech brand.

Two weeks prior, as a sideline reporter during the 2011 Rose Bowl, Andrews noted that Texas Christian University Horned Frogs football players were slipping on the turf because of the new Nike shoes they were wearing.

Due to the perceived conflict of interest, ESPN announced revised endorsement guidelines for its journalists that required Andrews to end her endorsement deal with Reebok by the end of 2011.

In November 2011, former ESPN executive Keith Clinkscales filed suit against ESPN Vice President Joan Lynch, claiming she had falsely alleged Clinkscales had masturbated while sitting next to Andrews on an airplane flight earlier that year.

Andrews was reported to have disclosed the incident to a number of people but chose not to pursue the matter with ESPN's HR department because she was still shaken by public disclosure of her stalking experiences.

She later joined Fox Sports in 2012 and has since become the lead sideline reporter for the network's NFL broadcasting team.

On June 29, 2012, it was announced that Andrews was leaving ESPN to join Fox Sports.

She was the first host of Fox College Football's studio show and was joined by analysts Eddie George and Joey Harrington.

Andrews also became a contributor on Fox NFL Sunday and served as a field reporter for most major sporting events aired on Fox, such as the MLB All-Star Game, the World Series, the NFL Playoffs, and Daytona 500.

With the launch of Fox Sports 1 on August 17, 2013, Andrews became the guest host of Fox College Football Kickoff and Fox College Saturday, a direct competitor to ESPN College Gameday, which previews the weekend's biggest college football games.

Andrews also contributed to the daily studio show Fox Football Daily.

Beginning with the 2014 NFL season, Andrews became the sideline reporter on Fox's lead NFL broadcasting crew after replacing Pam Oliver.

In March 2014, Andrews replaced Brooke Burke-Charvet as co-host of Dancing with the Stars, joining Tom Bergeron for the show's 18th season.

Andrews has also co-hosted the CMT Music Awards twice, having hosted the 2015 ceremony with actress Brittany Snow on June 10 and the 2016 ceremony with NFL player J. J. Watt on June 8.

She co-hosts the Calm Down podcast with Charissa Thompson since 2021.

She later re-signed with Fox Sports in 2016 to report exclusively with the network's NFL crew.