Lisa Marie Guerrero (born April 9, 1964) is an award-winning American journalist, actress, former sportscaster, artist, and model. Since 2006, Guerrero has been an investigative correspondent for the nationally syndicated newsmagazine Inside Edition.[1][2]
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Born | Lisa Coles Guerrero (1964-04-09) April 9, 1964 (age 58) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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Height | 5'8" (173 cm) |
Hair color | Brunette |
Eye color | Brown |
Website | www |
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.
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 in Frasier (the "Odd Man Out" and "Frasier's Imaginary Friend" episodes), 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 starred in 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 left 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]
15 years later, Lisa hosted the Secrets of Playboy. The show won the Critics Choice Award for Best Crime and Justice Show in 2022.[11] Lisa's empathic and detailed 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.
Lisa has been 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.
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 Brad Pitt film 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]
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Guerrero wrote a memoir about her journey titled Warrior: My Path to Being Brave, which is set to be published by Hachette Books on January 24, 2023. [14]
Also an artist, Lisa 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 Huffington Post.[citation needed]
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