There was immediate criticism both inside the industry and outside, painting her as a cheerleader/model breaking the sanctity of the sideline. She got the job, but when it was announced, the sports/entertainment distinction wasn’t publicized by ABC. “I was like, ‘Oh, that changed the whole thing for me,’ ” Guerrero said. She vividly remembers him saying it would not be an “X’s and O’s” sideline job. He told her the job would focus on entertainment and football. He wore her down and, since she was traveling from Los Angeles to New York for the men’s magazine FHM’s lingerie cover shoot, she agreed to meet with Gaudelli. “Are you crazy? It’s ‘Monday Night Football,’” Guerrero recalled Lindner saying. When “MNF” called, she initially told her agent, Ken Lindner, to decline the chance. She had turned down opportunities to try it out on college football for Fox Sports. What she wasn’t was a sideline reporter, and she did not want to be one. She had been a sportscaster for nearly a decade. Yes, she was attractive, but she was intelligent, too. However, the “MNF” executive producer at the time, Fred Gaudelli, noticed her work on Fox Sports’ “Best Damn Sports Show.” When the “Monday Night Football” hiring process began in 2003, she had no aspirations for the job. Guerrero has never before told her side of her “Monday Night Football” experience or its aftermath, bottling up her feelings for nearly two decades. She has won more than 30 national awards for investigative journalism. She chased him down, which resulted in him returning the PPP loan, although he claims he made the purchase with other money. After Lamb accepted a $3.9 million Paycheck Protection Program loan, Guerrero reported that Lamb bought a multimillion-dollar private jet. Recently, she reported on Marcus Lamb, a leader of one of the world’s largest religious networks, Daystar Television. She first flew home before going to urgent care.
Guerrero was clipped by the dentist’s car as he drove off to avoid her interview. Nearly a decade ago, she went for an unscheduled interview with a pediatric dentist in Arizona, who was allegedly performing unnecessary procedures on young patients. Dustin Chauncy is in prison for 80 years to life. In 2012, her report led to a Nebraska man being tried and found guilty of intentional child abuse that led to a 2-year-old’s death. “A lot of them are bad people, criminal and dangerous.” “Part of what I do now is to physically go out and confront people,” said Guerrero, 56. While someone unfamiliar with an investigative reporter’s role on a news/entertainment show might think it is fluff, her job certainly is not. The best way to describe Guerrero’s job description these days is: crusading reporter for the syndicated magazine show “Inside Edition.” Fearless reporterīefore we dive into yesteryear, it is probably best to start with today. It was not, however, the end of Lisa Guerrero. Since the move failed, the narrative stuck. She felt smothered.Ī former LA Rams cheerleader, actress, swimsuit model and magazine cover girl, she was presented by many, upon her 2003 “MNF” hiring, as a bimbo. She had fallen from working with Al Michaels and John Madden in prime time to a coast-to-coast punch line. “I considered killing myself,” Guerrero told The Post. The hosts cackled, reading a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column that ransacked her name, focusing on her looks and calling her “MNF”’s “biggest liability ever.” She pulled over. Out of old habit, she mistakenly flipped on sports radio. One day, months after her firing, she drove on the Pacific Coast Highway. In 2004, after she lost her job, she tried to avoid sports entirely as she was in a fog, often unable to rise from bed in the morning, feeling bullied by criticism and taunts after being one-and-done on “MNF.” Since her mother died of lymphoma when Guerrero was 8, sports had been her bond with her father. She was humiliated and clinically depressed. Lisa Guerrero wasn’t sure she wanted to live anymore.Īfter one season as a “Monday Night Football” sideline reporter, she was fired.
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