Brooke Hundley, the ESPN production assistant confirmed to have had an affair with married ESPN analyst Steve Phillips, didn’t take their breakup lightly.
Brooke Hundley, a production assistant at ESPN, wanted it known that she’d had an affair with married ESPN analyst Steve Phillips, some 25 years her senior. Apparently, she also wanted it known she was a woman scorned after they broke up.
Hundley, 22, sent a long letter to Marni Phillips, the sportscaster’s wife, and reportedly delivered it to the Phillips residence on August 19 before escaping confrontation. The letter offered details of her affair with Steve Phillips plus details of proof about what had been going on, should the wife want it. Hundley wrote that she and Phillips texted all day, nearly every day.
“The texts have always been mostly about our sexual side of our relationship and I have some saved if you ever want to see them,” Hundley wrote. “Basically stuff like when we’ll meet up next, what we want to do to each other physically and how we feel about each other.”
Hundley insisted in the letter that she and Steve Phillips were in love, and his marriage to Marni Phillips was “loveless.” For that reason, at least, Hundley wanted to make the wife aware of what her husband was up to.
“I was raised Catholic too and while I know our faith dissuades divorce, it also respects it in regards to infidelity because people should have the opportunity to be with whomever makes them happy and can give them what they need,” she wrote. “I’m coming out now because I’m sick of hiding and sneaking around behind your back.”
Phillips, said to be concerned about his family’s safety, hasn’t filed charges against Hundley. But, divorce proceedings are underway with wife Marni, and the sportscaster was suspended from ESPN for a week.
None of the key players in this situation have any confirmed ties to plastic surgery – but of these three people, Steve Phillips would seem most likely to consider it – as he now appears on camera, in close-up, for a living. In 2007, the site www.body-philosophy.net presented a 16-image slideshow speculating about news anchors that have had plastic surgery – men and women – and the “before and after” images left little doubt in many cases.
“How we look is part of what we do,” the site quotes PBS news host Bonnie Erbe. “There is an equal-opportunity factor at work these days. Men are now having to be as concerned about looks as women have always been.”
That is today’s simple truth for people who regularly appear on television. In 2009, it may even apply to guys who talk sports on ESPN.
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