Sports, modeling and journalism, Britt Mchenrya does it all. However, she is best known for her career as a sports journalist. Anyone who knows a little more about Mchenry would no doubt remember the 2015 leak of his staple to a towing agent that almost cost him his job at ESPN. She was subsequently laid off. But Britt has long put those years behind her. She can be seen these days hosting “Like It or Not” on WTTG Fox 5 in Washington DC alongside Bram Weinstein and Guy Lambert. She works as a news commentator for Fox.
Britt Mchenry Biography
Brittany May McHenry was born on May 28, 1986 in Mount Holly Township, New Jersey, United States. Her father, Bill McHenry, a curator, was an Air Force lieutenant colonel. Raised in Satellite Beach, Florida, Britt attended Satellite High High School where she was an active athlete playing softball, football and basketball. However, she focused on football. For four consecutive years, Britt was a member of the club of future United States soccer team goalie Ashlyn Harris.
After graduating from high school in 2004, Mchenry then went to Stetson University, where she continued to play football with the Hatters varsity football team. She was great in the midfield position. In 2007, she graduated with great distinction.
During her college years, Britt worked a number of summer jobs, including at a store that sold t-shirts and sandals. There she learned how to fold a t-shirt correctly. At Stetson, Britt quit the sport after developing a passion for broadcast journalism. In her senior year, she landed an internship at ABC News in Washington.
Determined to start a professional career as soon as possible, Mchenry, whose job was work-oriented, graduated a semester early. In an effort to deepen her knowledge of the field that interested her so much, Britt enrolled in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University to earn a graduate degree in journalism. Unable to pay tuition, she got a student loan which she revealed she was still paying as of 2016.
Britt Mchenry graduated from Medill in 2008 after she landed her first job at ABC’s Washington affiliate WJLA-TV. She started as a business journalist and without a video crew, she learned to set up her own camera. In 2009, Britt was given the chance to make the switch to sports, and after approval from her boss, she began creating her own feature videos. Impressed by her work, her boss gave her a contract as a sports journalist.
Britt would then spend the next two years. She was working for ABC 7 before ESPN tapped her in March 2014. As a Washington-based desktop reporter, Britt covered professional football, basketball and hockey and served as a correspondent. for many shows including SportsCenter, Outside the Lines, NFL. Live and baseball tonight.
Britt’s career was going really well until an unfortunate event about a year later in April 2015 tarnished her reputation. A video of Britt yelling and using swear words at a parking lot employee was leaked via LiveLeak. An enraged Britt was seen verbally abusing an employee by attacking her physical appearance as well as her social and financial status.
Following the leak, Britt took to her Twitter account to apologize for her actions, however she was suspended for a week by her employer, ESPN, a punishment deemed too lenient. However, in a statement, the towing company accepted Britt’s apology and said it would not want Britt to be punished for her comments.
Although Britt fully accepted responsibility for her actions, she noted in an interview with Marie Claire that the footage was a montage, which made it seem like she was the only one talking. To this day, the consequences of her action still seem to haunt her.
In April 2017, when she was among 100 staff members fired by ESPN due to their savings, many were quick to speculate that it was a viral video, but an unidentified source told Fox News that it wasn’t because of that. Fox would later hire her as a correspondent and she would also work as a contributor for the right-wing magazine, The Federalist.
In May 2018, Britt Mchenry for the first time took to Twitter to talk about why she was fired from ESPN. She claimed that her race and conservative political views were the main reasons and that she was in fact the first to drop out. She later took down the tweet and told Deadspin’s website that a number of factors contributed to her firing and that she hoped to write about them in an upcoming book.
Modeling career before ESPN
During his time as a student at Stetson, Mchenry worked several times during the summer. Around the same time, Mchenry pursued a modeling career. At 1.78m, she certainly had the height. She even signed with the famous agency Wilhelmina Models. Britt never really talked about those days in her life. However, in 2016, after the tow attendant’s video thrust her into the spotlight, photos from her modeling gigs surfaced online.
husband, boyfriend
When it comes to her personal life, Britt Mchenry’s shh, hush. No information about his love life has ever been found online. However, in early June 2018, when she posted a photo of herself and American tennis star Tennys Sandgren hanging out in the city of love and romance – Paris, France, many of her followers were quick to speculated that they were a thing, but that remains only but speculation.