Jaymee Sire is a
television host
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and
sports commentator
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who previously worked for
ESPN
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. She is currently the host of
Food Network Obsessed" podcast which debuted in January 2021, and was nominated for the
Webby Awards
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in 2022. She is best known for her work on SportsCenter:AM at ESPN, the morning installment of the network's flagship show, which aired live Monday-Friday from 7am-10am ET. She also served floor reporter for ''
Iron Chef Showdown
''Iron Chef Showdown'' is an American cooking show based on Fuji Television's ''Iron Chef'', and is the fourth American adaptation of the series, following ''Iron Chef USA'' and ''Iron Chef America'' and '' Iron Chef Gauntlet''. The show is prod ...
'', which aired in the 4th quarter of 2017 on
Food Network
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. Sire also runs her own food blog
"e is for eat"
Biography
Sire was born in
Great Falls, MT
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and graduated from
Great Falls, High School
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in 1998. She graduated magna cum laude from
Washington State University
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in 2002. Upon graduation, she worked at
KRTV
KRTV (channel 3) is a television station in Great Falls, Montana, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside KTVH-DT, KTGF-LD (channel 50), the local NBC affiliate, and is part of the Mo ...
in her hometown for one year before moving to
KFMB in San Diego in 2003. In 2008, she took a job with
CSN Bay Area
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, where she worked until 2013, primarily covering the
Golden State Warriors
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and
San Francisco Giants.
ESPN
Sire left
CSN Bay Area
NBC Sports Bay Area (sometimes abbreviated as NBCS Bay Area) is an American regional sports network owned as a joint venture between NBCUniversal and the San Francisco Giants, and operates as an affiliate of NBC Sports Regional Networks. Headquart ...
in early 2013 to take a job with
ESPN
ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). The ...
, where she helped launch Sports Center :AM, the network's early morning installment of
Sports Center
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. She also served as the sideline reporter for the
Little League World Series. She was one of about 100 employees to be laid off at ESPN in April 2017.
Food Network
Following her layoff from ESPN, Sire made the pivot towards food television. She has appeared as a guest co-host 6 times on
Beat Bobby Flay
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Format
In the first round, two guests, often a celebrity che ...
, and as a judge on Season 13 of
Food Network Star
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on
Food Network
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. On July 25, 2017, it was announced that she would be the new floor reporter for Iron Chef Showdown, which aired in 4th quarter of 2017 on
Food Network
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. In 2019, she began hosting live classes on the Food Network Kitchen app. In December 2020,
Food Network
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announced that Sire would be the host of the network's first ever podcast
Food Network Obsessed
Awards
While at
KFMB in
San Diego
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, Sire received the Pacific Southwest Emmy Award for Best Sports Story in 2007, as well as an RTNA Southern California Golden Mic Award in 2004 for Best Feature Reporting. In 2013, she was awarded a San Francisco/Northern California Emmy Award for her work on All A's: A's in Japan.
References
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