Kevin Frazier

Kevin Timothy Frazier (born May 20, 1964) is an American television host, widely known as co-host of ''Entertainment Tonight'' and the founder and owner of the urban entertainment website HipHollywood.com.

Career

Frazier's first media job was as a news and sports reporter/photographer at WCBD-TV in Charleston, SC; when his boss took a job at WBFF-TV in Baltimore (which had just launched a news operation), Frazier followed. Frazier then joined another upstart news operation, at WXIX-TV in Cincinnati, serving as both weekend sports anchor and as a play-by-play commentator for the station's coverage of the University of Cincinnati Bearcats basketball team. During this time, he also became a sideline reporter for the newly launched ''NFL on Fox''.

Afterwards, he moved to Los Angeles and joined Prime Sports as one of the rotating anchors of their national sports news program, ''Press Box''; simultaneously, he hosted the short-lived '' FX Sports Show'' alongside Jim Rome. Both programs were succeeded by '' Fox Sports News'' as Fox Sports Net launched in late 1996; Frazier anchored the very first broadcast, and remained as one of the many anchors until the program (by then known as the ''National Sports Report'') was cancelled in early 2002. While at Fox, he also co-hosted ''College Football Saturday'', and served as an anchor and sideline reporter for other Fox Sports coverage.

After his stint at Fox, he later joined ESPN, where he hosted ''SportsCenter'' and a multitude of National Basketball Association themed programming (including ''NBA Shootaround'', '' NBA Fastbreak'' and '' NBA Fastbreak Tuesday).''

From 2004 to 2011, he was a correspondent for ''Entertainment Tonight'' as well as a fill-in host, and from 2011 to 2014, was a co-host of '' The Insider''; he returned to ''ET'' in 2014, and continues as co-anchor to the present day''.'' Frazier is also the host of ''Game Changers'' on the weekly '' CBS Dream Team''.

Frazier has also made guest appearances in movies and TV shows, including ''Rat Race'', '' One on One'' and ''Empire''. He, alongside fellow FSN anchor Van Earl Wright, also appeared on the short-lived NBC sitcom ''Inside Schwartz'', analyzing the decisions made by the lead character. Frazier has also been a forum guest on '' Jim Rome Is Burning''.

In 2008, Frazier founded HipHollywood.com, an online web site for urban entertainment news. The company is a content partner for ET Online and The Insider, and offers news, pop culture information, photos and interviews with celebrities in music, sports, television and film.

In 2013, Frazier was signed on to host a game show pilot called ''The Money Pump'' based on an Israeli format, produced by ITV Studios America and Reshet TV for CBS where contestants compete against an enormous money pump for a chance at the $1,000,000 prize. The show never made it past the pilot stage.
In 2016 Frazier was the moderator for Season 2 of Little Women: Atlanta.

Personal life

Frazier attended Oakland Mills Middle and Hammond High in Columbia, Maryland. He went on to Hampton University and then graduated from Morgan State University. He is married to attorney Yasmin Cader; together they have sons Shane and Reece. Kevin has son Tony from a previous relationship.

References

External links

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Kevin Frazier's bio on''ET'' Online

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1964 births
20th-century African-American people
21st-century African-American people
African-American television personalities
American infotainers
American tennis commentators
American television sports announcers
College football announcers
ESPN people
Hampton University alumni
Living people
Morgan State University alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
NBA broadcasters