Jemele Hill’s husband: Who is Ian Wallace? : Jemele Hill, officially known as Jemele Juanita Hill, is an American sports journalist born December 21, 1975.
She developed a passion for journalism at a young age and remained consistent throughout her career, becoming one of the most sought-after sports journalists.
Hill began her career as a general sports reporter for the Raleigh News & Observer and later worked for the Detroit Free Press as well as the Orlando Sentinel.
While at the Detroit Free Press, she worked as a sports editor, primarily covering Michigan State football and basketball. She also covered the 2004 Summer Olympics and the NBA playoffs.
Hill joined ESPN in November 2006 as a national columnist and later served in various roles until she succeeded Jalen Rose as host of ESPN2’s “Numbers Never Lie” in 2013.
At ESPN, she appeared regularly on television, including SportsCenter and several ESPN programs such as ESPN First Take, Outside the Lines and The Sports Reporters.
After succeeding Jalen Rose as host of “Numbers Never Lie,” the show was renamed “His & Hers,” which she co-hosted with Michael Smith.
In 2017, she sparked controversy with a series of tweets critical of President Donald Trump, calling him, among other things, a white supremacist.
Later that year (2017), she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Reporting for the ABC News program “The President and The People”.
In 2018, Hill left her role as co-host of SC6 and joined the ESPN website The Undefeated. Shortly after, she left ESPN to work as a writer for The Atlantic.
Hill then became co-host of Vice’s “Cari & Jemele (Won’t) Stick to Sports” alongside Cari Champion from August 2020 to February 2021.
Hill is co-founder of the film and production company Lodge Freeway Media and released her autobiography Uphill: A Memoir in 2022.
In February 2022, she participated in the documentary series Everything’s Gonna Be All White, which aired on Showtime.
In July 2023, she made headlines after speaking out against the Supreme Court’s ruling that using race as a factor in college admissions violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Jemele Hill’s husband: Who is Ian Wallace?
Hill of Jemélé is married to Ian Wallace, a medicine salesman born on August 6, 1980 in the United States.
Wallace was Hill’s classmate at Michigan State University. The couple met at their alma mater’s prom parade in 2014 and began a serious relationship in 2015.
The sports journalist and medical products salesman got married on November 10, 2019 at the Monarch Beach Resort in California.