Lisa Guerrero | |
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 Guerrero in 2019 | |
| Born | Lisa Coles Guerrero April 9, 1964 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Website | www |
Lisa Guerrero (born April 9, 1964) is an American journalist, actress, former sportscaster, artist, and model. Since 2006, Guerrero has been an investigative correspondent for the nationally syndicated newsmagazine Inside Edition.
Guerrero was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Walter Coles, an American of English descent, and Lucy Guerrero, who was from Chile. Guerrero spent her childhood living in San Diego, California, and Huntington Beach, California. In 1972, when she was aged eight, her mother died of lymphoma cancer. Lisa is a graduate of Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California which is located in Orange County.[1][2]
Guerrero began her show business career in the 1980s as a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Rams, after which she became entertainment director for the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots. In the 1990s, she starred in Aaron Spelling's Sunset Beach as the female jewel thief Francesca Vargas. She also guest-starred on Frasier (as Joanne, the woman Frasier meets in the airport and follows onto a plane in the Season 4 finale "Odd Man Out" and Season 5 premiere "Frasier's Imaginary Friend"), Cybill, George Lopez and In the Heat of the Night.
In 1992, Guerrero, billed under her given name Lisa Coles, made a brief appearance[3] in the superhero film Batman Returns.[4][5] Guerrero's character, credited as "Volunteer Bimbo"[6] tells the film's villain, Penguin (Danny DeVito) that he is the coolest role model a young person could have. The Penguin retorted by saying that she's the hottest young person a role model could have.
In 1997, she became a sports anchor on Los Angeles' KCBS-TV and later KTTV.
In 1999, Lisa Guerrero moved to the Fox Network, where she participated in shows such as Sports Geniuses, Fox Overtime, Fox Extra Innings, and the Toughman competition shows. Guerrero travelled to Egypt to tape the special Opening the Tombs of the Golden Mummies, and was the first female host of the San Diego Chargers magazine-style television show. Guerrero also co-hosted The Best Damn Sports Show Period, alongside Tom Arnold, John Salley, John Kruk and Michael Irvin.
In 2003, she left The Best Damn Sports Show Period to join ABC's Monday Night Football[7][8][9] as a sideline reporter. Guerrero was fired from the Monday Night Football team after one season.
Guerrero was the celebrity cover model in the January 2006 issue of Playboy magazine, billed on the cover as "The Best Damn Sports Beauty".[10]
Fifteen years later, Guerrero hosted the Secrets of Playboy. The show won the Critics Choice Award for Best Crime and Justice Show in 2022.[11] Her in-studio sit down interviews with the survivors earned critical praise.[12]
On June 15, 2006, Guerrero became a correspondent on the TV news magazine Inside Edition. She later became the show's chief investigative correspondent and has worked on undercover stories and investigative reports. In 2011, she won the National Headliner Award for Best Investigative Report, beating Anderson Cooper for her undercover exposé on air duct cleaning scams.
Guerrero was nominated for a Prism Award for her story on the dangers of alcohol and boating. She was also nominated for a Genesis Award nomination for her investigation into horse slaughter farms in Florida.
In total, Guerrero has won over 35 national journalism awards and honors since becoming Inside Edition's chief investigative correspondent in 2010.
Guerrero has appeared in numerous TV and film projects throughout her forty-year career, including a starring role in Aaron Spelling's Sunset Beach, guest starring on Frasier, The George Lopez Show, In the Heat of the Night, and a recurring role in TNT's television drama series Southland. She appeared in Batman Returns and was also featured in the Bennet Miller's film starring Brad Pitt Moneyball.
Guerrero and her ex-husband, retired baseball pitcher Scott Erickson, made an independent film titled A Plumm Summer (2007). Guerrero played the lead role and was also credited as executive producer. Guerrero also co-hosted VH1's game show The World Series of Pop Culture. In 2010, Guerrero hosted the first live webcast of the 82nd Academy Awards red carpet for Oscar.com, integrating viewers' questions from Facebook into celebrity interviews. In January 2012, Guerrero hosted Shooting Stars: Salute to Service, a reality competition show on the Velocity channel.[citation needed]
In total, Lisa has appeared in 18 film and television projects.[13]
Guerrero wrote a memoir titled Warrior: My Path to Being Brave which was published by Hachette Books in January 2023.[14]
Guerrero previously wrote the book, Jewelry For Your Table, a how-to crafts treatise on table setting, published in 2016.[15]
She has occasionally written a blog for the Los Angeles Times sports section and HuffPost.[citation needed]
