Fox broadcaster Erin Andrews playfully called her podcast co-host and fellow NFL reporter Charissa Thompson a ‘b****’ during an exchange on a recent episode.
The duo are co-hosts of ‘Calm Down with Erin and Charissa’ where they discuss life inside the NFL and were talking about their hair care routines.
‘My grays are nuts so I now have to, like, pat it with that gray stuff all the time because I have brown hair,’ Andrews explained.
‘What gray stuff?’ Thompson asked in response. ‘Can I say something? And maybe you’ll get mad at me for this. I don’t get gray.’
Andrews replied: ‘Yeah. I am mad at you. You’re a b****.’
Fox broadcaster Erin Andrews playfully called Charissa Thompson a ‘b****’ on their podcast
Andrews made headlines earlier this month when, for the second time in as many years, she was accused of making something up while working an NFL game.
She was in Wisconsin on November 3 to cover a game between the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers.
It was a sloppy game in Green Bay, with cold temperatures and lashing rain at kickoff that stayed throughout the contest.
But a local meteorologist took issue when Andrews appeared to ‘make up’ the conditions when she said that there were 43 mile per hour winds and the chance of thunder and lightning.
‘Begging Erin Andrews to stop making up weather alerts,’ meteorologist Sam Kuffel posted to X, formerly Twitter. She added, ‘Stuff like this makes me irrationally angry.’
This follows on from controversy last year, where a re-surfaced podcast episode showed Andrews allegedly admitting to fabricating information.
Andrews appeared to ‘make up’ the conditions at the Lions-Packers game earlier this month
On another episode of ‘Calm Down’, Thompson admitted that she made up a report with former Lions coach Rod Marinelli.
‘I was like ‘Oh coach what adjustments are you gonna make at halftime?,» Thompson said. ‘He goes, ‘That’s a great perfume you’re wearing.’ I was like, ‘Oh [expletive], this isn’t gonna work.’ I’m not kidding, I made up a report.’
Andrews responded, ‘I’ve done that too. For a coach that I didn’t wanna throw under the bus because he was telling me all the wrong stuff.’
That statement drew backlash – prompting her spokesperson, Jill Fritzo, to tell the New York Times, ‘For her entire career, Erin Andrews has worked very closely with coaches, players and PR staffs to ensure accuracy in her reporting.’
