Kevin Frazier Biography
Kevin Frazier is a co-host of “Entertainment Tonight” nightly broadcast alongside Nischelle Turner. He also hosts Married At First Sight and is the owner and founder of HipHollywood.com, an urban entertainment website.
Kevin Frazier Age
Kevin is 58 years old, he was born in 1964 in New Jersey, USA. He celebrates his birthday on May 20.
Kevin Frazier Height
Frazier stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches tall.
Kevin Frazier Education
Kevin graduated from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland in 1989 with a bachelor’s degree in communications.
Kevin Frazier Parents
Kevin is the son of legendary basketball coach Nathaniel Frazier and Alice Frazier. Nat has coached the University of Illinois, Morgan State University, and under Willis Reed with the New York Knicks. Frazier was inspired by his father and even wanted to become a coach. He was an assistant coach to his father for two years before he completing his undergraduate studies.
Kevin Frazier Wife
Frazier married his wife, Yazmin Cader Frazier in December 2006. Yazmin is a civil rights lawyer and public defender. She is a Deputy Legal Director at the ACLU and the Director of the Trone Center for Justice and Equality, which encompasses the National Prison Project, the Criminal Law Reform Project, the Racial Justice Program, the Capital Punishment Project, as well as the John Adams project.
Kevin Frazier Second Wife
Frazier has only one wife, Yazmin Cader Frazier. He was previously in a relationship while he was a teenager which resulted to the birth of his first born son Tony.
Kevin Frazier Children
Kevin has three children Shane Cader and Reece Cader from his marriage to Yasmin Cader and Tony Frazier from a previous relationship when he was a teemager.
Kevin Frazier Son Tony
Tony Tull was born where Frazier was a teenager and was put up for adoption. One day when Frazier was at a McDonald’s he saw him and recognized him and they kept in touch. When Tony became a college student he moved in with his father. Tony followed his father’s footsteps and became a reporter. Tony is a former WRC general assignment reporter. He also worked as a reporter at KSWB in San Diego, KOVR in Sacramento and XETV in San Diego. He graduated from the University of Hartford and hosted a 30-minute high school sports show for ESPN2 while he was in college.
In 2017, he was arrested and charged with suspicion of child endangerment and bringing a loaded gun to a school campus. This was after an incident in November 2016, where he allegedly pointed a handgun at someone and claimed to be a police officer. The incident occurred on the campus of Urban Discovery Academy on 14th Street. After he was searched, no handgun was found but it was later found in the possession of a two-year-old boy sitting in a stroller.
Kevin Frazier Married At First Sight
Kevin hosts Married At First Sight. He said that he was a fan of the show even prior to being hired as the host.
Kevin Frazier Entertainment Tonight, CBS
Kevin is a co-host of Entertainment Tonight nightly broadcast alongside Nischelle Turner. He joined ET in 2004 as a host of the weekend edition of Entertainment Tonight. He previously worked at ESPN as anchor of Sportscenter, as a studio host on NBA Shootaround, a pre-game news show, and as an anchor for Fastbreak Tuesday. While at ESPN, he made regular appearance as a regular guest on Jim Rome is Burning, a sports conversation show. He also made guest appearances on other TV shows such as One on One and The Ashlee Simpson Show.
While still in college Kevin wanted to become a basketball coach just like his father and even served as an assistant coach to his father for two years at Morgan State University in Baltimore, where he attended college. After graduating college, he landed a job as a news and sports reporter and photographer at WCBD-TV in Charleston, South Carolina. He moved to Baltimore, Maryland’s WBFF-TV in 1991 after his boss transferred there. While doing his television work he also did commentary for University of Cincinnati basketball games (1993–95), and was a sidelines reporter on Fox’s NFL coverage.
In 1995 due to his knowledge as a sports journalist and anchor he was selected as the anchor of a then new LA-based Fox Sports News (aka National Sports Report) show. He covered all major sports events including NBA Finals and the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four. He hosted pre-game shows and was a sideline reporter for NFL on Fox. He also hosted College Football Saturday. He decided to join ESPN sportscasting team in July 2002 after the nature of programming on FX Network changed. He anchored “SportsCenter” as well as NBA studio host. He later on began hosting “NBA Shootaround,” ESPN’s half-hour pregame news program, and “Fastbreak Tuesday,” a weekly whip-around show that takes viewers to live NBA games across the country.
He has also appeared in movies such as Rat Race (2001)where he played himself, Juwanna Mann (2002), and in the sitcom Inside Schwartz, which had a short run in 2002 as part of NBC’s “Must See TV” slot.
Kevin Frazier Salary
Kevin earns an estimated annual base salary of $500,000.
Kevin Frazier Net worth
He has an estimated net worth of $3 million as of 2023.