Chris Connelly Biography
Chris Connelly is a sports and entertainment reporter for ESPN who presently contributes to the E:60 newsmagazine. He was also Grantland.com’s interim editor-in-chief.
Chris Connelly Age
Chris was born in 1957 in New York, New York, United States of America. He is 66 years old as of 2022.
Chris Connelly Family
He was born and raised in New York City alongside his sister Mary Connelly.
Is Chris Connelly Married?- Wife
He hasn’t made his relationship public. His marital status, whether married, engaged, divorced, or single, is unknown.
Chris Connelly Career
He is a sports and entertainment reporter who presently contributes to ESPN’s E:60 news magazine. He was also the interim editor-in-chief of Grantland.com, taking over for Bill Simmons before ESPN shut it down in October 2015. Connelly joined ESPN in 2001 to host the daily interview show Unscripted with Chris Connelly, which was intended to be a more modern version of the long-running Up Close interview show, which formerly aired at 5 p.m. ET. The show, which debuted on the same day as Pardon the Interruption, was only on the air for a few months before being replaced by an early SportsCenter and, eventually, Around the Horn.
Connelly has reported and narrated the long-form human interest pieces that run on SportsCenter on weekends since the termination of Unscripted. Most notably, he hosts an annual one-week series called “My Wish” in which athletes grant children’s Make-A-Wish Foundation requests. In 2006, Connelly assisted ABC and ESPN in covering the Scripps National Spelling Bee by conducting interviews with finalists who had just been eliminated. Connelly was a music critic at Rolling Stone magazine before joining ESPN. During the 1980s, he also worked as a Special Music Correspondent for Good Morning America, where he interviewed current music stars. Connelly then worked at MTV for thirteen years (1988-2001). Prior to that, he hosted the MTV Movie Awards pre-shows.
He also worked as an editor and reporter for Premiere magazine, eventually rising to the position of editor-in-chief. Connelly left after six months in a dispute over journalistic ethics after the magazine’s owner reportedly urged him to retract an article that portrayed a business colleague unfavorably. From 2000 through 2007, he was a member of the Academy Awards preshow host ensemble. All of these tasks were for ABC.
Chris Connelly’s Net Worth
Connelly has an estimated net worth of 3 million dollars.