Lisa Guerrero

At 60 years old, Lisa Guerrero has this physical status:

Lisa Guerrero (born April 9, 1964) is an American investigative journalist, actress, former sportscaster, host and model.

Since 2006, Guerrero has been an investigative correspondent for the nationally syndicated newsmagazine Inside Edition.

Early years

Guerrero was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of 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. To cope with the loss, her father enrolled her in theater therapy.

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Career

Guerrero began her show-business career in the 1980s as a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Rams and later became Entertainment Director for the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots, after which she transitioned to Entertainment Director for the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots. In the 1990s, she appeared in Aaron Spelling's Sunset Beach as the female jewel thief Francesca Vargas. She has appeared in Frasier (the "Odd Man Out" and "Frasier's Imaginary Friend" episodes), George Lopez, and In the Heat of the Night.

Guerrero, billed under her given name Lisa Coles, made a brief appearance in the 1992 superhero film Batman Returns. Guerrero's character, portrayed as "Volunteer Bimbo," tells the film's villain, Penguin (Danny DeVito), that he is the coolest role-model a young person can have. The Penguin replied by saying she is the most popular young person a role-model could have.

She became a sports anchor on Los Angeles' KCBS-TV and later KTTV in 1997.

Lisa Guerrero moved to Fox Network in 1999, where she appeared in such shows as Sports Geniuses, Fox Overtime, Fox Extra Innings, and the Toughman Tournament. Guerrero travelled to Egypt to tape the special Opening the Tombs of the Golden Mummies and appeared in the San Diego Chargers magazine-style television program. Guerrero, John Salley, John Kruk, and Michael Irvin appeared on The Best Damn Sports Show Period together with Tom Arnold, John Salley, John Kruk and Michael Irvin.

She left The Best Damn Sports Show Period in 2003 to join ABC's Monday Night Football television crew. The show hoped to make her a sideline reporter but then changed their minds. Guerrero left the Monday Night Football team after just one season.

Guerrero was the celebrity cover model for Playboy magazine's January 2006 issue, which was branded on the front page as "The Best Damn Sports Beauty."

Lisa is the host of the Secrets of Playboy Aftershows, 15 years later. In 2022, Playboy's Enigma received the Critics Choice Award for the Best Crime and Justice Show. Lisa's eloquent and in-depth in-studio sit down interviews with the survivors earned critical praise.

Guerrero became a reporter for Inside Edition, the television news magazine that appeared on June 15, 2006. She later served as the show's Chief Investigative Correspondent and has worked on undercover stories and investigative reports. She received the National Headliner Award for Best Investigative Report in 2011, defeating Anderson Cooper for her undercover investigation into air duct cleaning scams.

Lisa has been nominated for a Prism Award for her essay on the dangers of alcohol and boating. She was also nominated for a Genesis Award nomination for her inquiry into horse slaughter farms in Florida.

Guerrero, a seasoned actress, has appeared in hundreds of television and film roles throughout her forty-year career, including a starring role in Aaron Spelling's Sunset Beach, guest starring on Frasier, In the Heat of the Night, and a recurring role in TNT's television drama series Southland. She appeared in Batman Returns and was included in the Brad Pitt Academy Award nominated feature film Moneyball, demonstrating her improvisational skills based on her real life experience as a tough talking locker room sports reporter.

Guerrero and her ex-husband, retired baseball pitcher Scott Erickson, made a documentary called A Plumm Summer (2006). Guerrero played the lead role and was also credited as the executive producer. Guerrero also co-hosted VH1's game show The World Series of Pop Culture. Guerrero hosted the first live webcast of the 82nd Academy Awards red carpet in 2010, incorporating viewers' queries from Facebook into celebrity interviews. Guerrero hosted Shooting Stars: Salute to Service, a reality competition show on the Velocity channel in January 2012.

Lisa has appeared in 48 film and television shows.

Lisa published a memoir about her experience with Warrior: My Way to Being Brave after more than a decade of sportscasting, then reinventing herself as an investigative journalist. (ISBN 9780306829499), published by Hachette Books.

"Never forget, Lisa, that Guerrero means warrior." You were born to fight,” Lucy Guerrero's 8-year-old daughter Lisa Guerrero said in 1972.

Lisa Guerrero bonded with her father over football as a young child following her mother's death. She then went on to be the first female-dominant world of sports broadcasting, rising through the ranks to become the sideline reporter for Monday Night Football. However, sports reporting was glamorous, Guerrero was often ill, encouraged to smile more, argue less, and still have a lot of leg and cleavage, despite the fact that sports coverage was glamorous. During the first game that cost her her her sportscasting career and almost her life, she made a mistake on air.

Lisa talks about finding herself in her inner Warrior during her lifelong struggle against bullying and misogyny in order to help others as an investigative journalist relying on empathy as her superpower. In this book, she teaches how to commit small acts of bravery and demonstrates that perseverance is a skill that will grow with time.

Pre-sales are now available, with a new release date of January 24, 2023.

Lisa has also written the book, Jewelry For Your Table (ISBN 9780764352492), a how-to-craft treatise on table setting that was published in 2016. It helps with the art for the dining table.

She has occasionally written a blog for the Los Angeles Times' sports section and the Huffington Post.

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