Jaymee Sire is a

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and

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who previously worked for

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. She is currently the host of
Food Network Obsessed
" podcast which debuted in January 2021, and was nominated for the

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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 ''

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'', which aired in the 4th quarter of 2017 on

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. Sire also runs her own food blog
"e is for eat"

Biography

Sire was born in

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and graduated from Great Falls, High School in 1998. She graduated magna cum laude from

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in 2002. Upon graduation, she worked at

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in her hometown for one year before moving to KFMB in San Diego in 2003. In 2008, she took a job with

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, where she worked until 2013, primarily covering the

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and San Francisco Giants.

ESPN

Sire left

in early 2013 to take a job with

, where she helped launch Sports Center :AM, the network's early morning installment of Sports Center. 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

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, and as a judge on Season 13 of

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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

. In 2019, she began hosting live classes on the Food Network Kitchen app. In December 2020,

announced that Sire would be the host of the network's first ever podcast
Food Network Obsessed

Awards

While at KFMB in

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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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