Jemele Hill Biography
Jemele Hill is a sports journalist from the United States. She formerly worked for the Raleigh News & Observer, Detroit Free Press, and Orlando Sentinel. She joined ESPN in 2006 and held several positions until 2013 when she took over as anchor of ESPN2’s Numbers Never Lie from Jalen Rose.
How old is Jemele Hill? – Age
She is 47 years old as of 21 December 2022. She was born in 1975 in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
Who are Jemele Hill’s parents? – Family – Education
Her parents were both heroin addicts, and she was raised by her single mother. In 1980, she and her mother moved to Houston, then back to Detroit. Hill earned his high school diploma in 1993 and his bachelor’s degree in 1997 from Michigan State University.
Who is Jemele Hill’s husband?
She has been married to Ian Wallace since 2019.
Jemele Hill Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $4 Million.
Jemele Hill Podcast – Unbothered
Hill debuted her podcast, Jemele Hill is Unbothered, on April 15, 2019, covering sports, politics, and culture. On Spotify, new episodes are released twice a week. The podcasts’ discussion of sports, according to Hill, “covers those tricky intersections: race, gender, politics.”
In 2020, Hill and Van Lathan debuted Way Down in the Hole, a twice-weekly podcast on The Ringer that recaps each episode of HBO’s The Wire.
Jemele Hill Uphill
She is the co-founder of the film and production business Lodge Freeway Media, and her autobiography Uphill: A Memoir will be published in 2022.
Jemele Hill The Atlantic
The Atlantic announced on October 1, 2018, that she would be joining the magazine as a staff writer.
Jemele Hill His & Hers
Hill and Michael Smith launched the podcast His & Hers in 2011. Because of its popularity, ESPN added Hill to Smith’s ESPN2 show Numbers Never Lie in 2013, which was ultimately titled His & Hers. In addition to athletics, the show addressed social and relationship concerns, as well as pop culture, such as favorite television series, music, and movie spoofs. Stephen Battaglio of the Los Angeles Times contrasted Hill and Smith’s style with the “vein-bulging, finger-pointing debates… filling hours of sports talk programming.” Instead, he stated, “Hill and Smith frequently agree and never take opposing views solely to create intriguing television… They are propelled by stored energy.” His & Hers was on display until January 2017.
Jemele Hill ESPN
Hill began working for ESPN as a national columnist on ESPN.com in November 2006. She showed up on TV, including SportsCenter and a few ESPN programs, including ESPN First Take, Outside the Lines and The Games Journalists. She worked as a sideline reporter on Friday nights with Rod Gilmore and Carter Blackburn during the college football season in 2012.
Hill was removed from her position during the 2008 NBA Playoffs for making a reference to Adolf Hitler in an article about the Boston Celtics and Detroit Pistons. Hill wrote the following in an editorial explaining why she was unable to support the Celtics: It is like saying that Hitler was a victim to support the Celtics. It resembles trusting Gorbachev would get to the flickering red button before Reagan.”
The remarks produced a negative reaction, and that piece of the publication was taken out soon after the section was distributed. Slope, a Cylinders fan, composed that: ” It was somewhat about race. Detroit is 80% dark, and as my partner J.A. Adande expressed in a fabulous piece on the Celtics recently, the generally white Celtics groups of the past made some extreme memories being acknowledged by dark crowds. Boston was seen by African-Americans as a racially narrow minded city.” Hill then received a one-week suspension and issued an apology through ESPN.
As another employee, former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz, also made a Hitler reference in 2008 but was not suspended, the network received criticism for its treatment of Hill.
Hill wrote a lengthy article in July 2020 expressing her deep regret for the Hitler reference. She composed that she had a humiliated outlook on it following she was gotten down on it, nevertheless has a humiliated outlook on it over 10 years after the fact. She came to the conclusion that her ESPN suspension was “a punishment that I deserved.”
Jemele Hill TV Shows
♦ 2021 – National Champions
♦ 2020 – Cari & Jemele (Won’t) Stick to Sports
♦ 2017-2018 – SportsCenter
♦ 2011-2017 – His & Hers