Jemele Hill Bio, Family, Career, Marriage, Net Worth, Measurements

Jemele Hill is an American journalist who worked for almost twelve years for the ESPN network. She had worked as a sports conglomerate and also wrote a column for ESPN.com’s Page 2. In addition, as a writer, she writes a column for “The Atlantic” magazines.

Additionally, Hill began hosting the ESPN program “SC6” at 6 p.m. with anchor Michael Smith. On top of that, according to The Washington Post on September 16, 2017 , White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggested firing Hill for tweeting that President Trump was a white supremacist. Keep reading to know about his personal life, controversy, net worth and of course his body measurements.

JEMELE HILL: BIO, FAMILY, EDUCATION

The famous journalist was born on December 21, 1975 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. She was born as Jemele Juanita Hill to parents whose identities are not available in the media. As a child, she moved her mother to Houston and later returned to Detroit. Other than that, she has not revealed much information about her childhood days and siblings.

Regarding her education, she had completed her high school education from Mumford High School in 1993. Then, later in 1997, she completed her education from Michigan State University.

JEMELE HILL: CAREER AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN LIFE

After graduation, she began her career as a sports editor for the “Raleigh News & Observer”. Subsequently, she was also a sports editor for the Detroit Free Press (1999-2005) and a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel (2005-06). Then in 2006, ESPN hired her as a national columnist on ESPN.com.

In 2012, she served as a sideline reporter during the 2012 college football season on Friday Nights with Carter Blackburn and Rod Gilmore. The journalist started her “His & Her” podcast with her co-host Michael Smith. Their partnership popularity led ESPN to add him to Smith’s ESPN2 show “Numbers Never Lie” in 2013. Hill began anchoring ESPN’s flagship show “SportsCenter” at 6 p.m. with Smith on February 6, 2017.

ESPN announced on January 25, 2018 that Jill would perform her final episode of SC6 on February 2, 2018. Afterwards, she will begin her new role on the company’s website ‘The Undefeated’ which covers the intersections of sports. Following this, on October 1, she will join leading magazine ‘The Atlantic’ as an editor.

Hill suspended from ESPN:

The reporter not only acknowledged his posts, but also his good outspokenness. She is also well known for one of the people who would like to voice their opinion without thinking about the consequences. She was individually suspended for her controversial comments.

During the 2008 NBA playoffs, she was suspended for referencing Adolf Hilter in an article. On October 9, 2017, ESPN suspended Hill for two weeks after speaking out against the company’s “Second Violation of Our Social Media Guidelines.” Before that, in September 2017, she was attacked by the US government as well as Secretary Sanders for calling President Trump a “white supremacist”.

Achievements:

Jemele won the inaugural McKenzie Cup in 2007 at the annual Poynter Media Summit. She was awarded “Journalist of the Year” in 2018 by the National Association of Black Journalists.

JEMELE HILL: PERSONAL LIFE AND HUSBAND

Many of you must be thinking the veteran reporter is married or not? Or she is in a relationship or her past relationships. Well, Hill seems to be a little secretive when it comes to her personal life. Therefore, she did not reveal any information about her past relationships. But we can definitely say that she is not married at the moment but has been linked to a handsome guy Ian Wallace.

At the end of 2018, she surprised her admirers by announcing her surprise engagement to her fiancé Ian. Additionally, she shared her photos with a fiancé after Christmas in 2018 on her social media accounts. Meanwhile, she revealed the couple had been together for almost four years. They met in 2014 and started to date in 2015.

Also, according to some rumors, she has dated several guys in the past. She had been linked to fellow actor Ray Lewis and English actor and musician Idris Elba.

JEMELE HILL: FORTUNE AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES

As a popular sports reporter in the country, she must earn a handsome income from her career. Sports journalism is the main source of income, which is why she currently works in the top sports channel, ESPN as well. The network is known to pay a good sum to its employees. Also, when it comes to her net worth, she has an estimated amount of around $4 million. She also hosts the sports podcast and the radio talk show.

She is also active on different social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter. On Instagram, she has an @jemelhill account with 491,000 followers. She has a @jemelhill Twitter account with 1.19 million followers. Additionally, she is active on Facebook with an @jemelhillworks account with over 166,000 followers.

JEMELE HILL: BODY MEASUREMENTS

She has a well-groomed body that has a height of 5 feet 6 inches or 1.67 meters and weighs around 56 kg. There is no information about his hourglass body shape. She has black hair color with light brown eyes.