Fifty-six years old Chris Fowler is an American sports broadcaster who works for ESPN and is popular for his work on College GameDay. He hosted College GameDay between 1990 and 2014. Fowler has been the primary studio host for college football since 1989.
Chris Fowler's Wiki, Age, Family
Chris Fowler was born on August 23, 1962, in Denver, Colorado in the United States. He was raised in Rockford, Illinois and State College, Pennsylvania with his family. His father, Knox, was a theater professor there. His family relocated to Colorado Springs while he was a teenager. There he graduated from General William J. Palmer High School in 1980.
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Fowler graduated from the University of Colorado in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He was the first recipient of the Alan Berg Memorial Journalism Scholarship which is awarded by the Denver Press Club.
Chris Fowler's Career & Net Worth
While he was an undergraduate, Fowler who is a Denver-area native, served as a producer and co-host for a weekly magazine program from 1982 to 1985; aired over a cable television system in Boulder, Colorado. He also spent two years working as sports director at KAIR-AM which is the university's radio station. He covered high school sports for the Rocky Mountain News from 1982 to 1984.
Fowler replaced Brent Musburger as the play-by-play announcer for Saturday Night Football on ABC. He was also selected to announce College Football National Championship and College Football Playoff games.
Before joining ESPN, Fowler spent nearly two years at KCNC-TV in Denver. There he worked as a producer/writer, production assistant and as a sports reporter. He worked for several months at KMGH-TV in 1984 in the same city as an intern in the sports department.
In July 1986 Fowler joined ESPN channel as the host and reporter of Scholastic Sports America which was a stint which lasted two years.
Since 1990 he began hosting the College GameDay football roadshow and expanded to ESPN's other Saturday college football segments in 1991.
In February 2015, ESPN announced that Rece Davis would take over for Fowler as host of GameDay but Fowler would be continuing his play-by-play role on ABC`s Saturday Night Football and College Football Playoff. He also worked as host of the annual Heisman Trophy presentations.
Fowler was also the lead studio host of College basketball on ESPN until 2006. Fowler has also worked with ESPN's Summer X Games from the year 1995 to 2000 and also at the Winter X Games from 1998 to 2000. He is also the host of the classic show in ESPN called SportsCentury.
As a renowned anchor, he has garnered a hefty sum of money. He draws an average salary of $3 million, and presently, he has made a net worth of $7 million.
Chris Married To Wife
Digging into his married life, he is happily married to former fitness model Jennifer Dempster. His wife who stands at the height of 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 meters) made her stage appearance at the age of 10 as Clara in the Nutcracker.
At an early age, her first performance became her professional career whereas, just at the age of sixteen, she had toured throughout the U.S. and Europe with the American Dance Machine.
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As being a fitness instructor, she was a regular performer on BodyShaping, a workout show on ESPN. While working there, she happened to cross path with Chris who is also a part of ESPN. Soon they fell in love and as both of them loved traveling, once while going to Paris the duo got engaged.
Soon the couple had fairy tale wedding at Oheka Castle, Huntington, New York.
Chris Fowler tweets about his wife Jennifer Dempster on 30 May 2018 (Photo: Chris Fowler's Twitter)
He is living a happy life with his wife so there is no question of divorce. The media does not have any detail about the couple`s children. Also, there is no record of Fowler`s past girlfriends or relations. There is no question of him being gay; he has a straight sexual orientation.
