This sassy Canadian-born hostess has made a career out of hanging with the guys. As a teen, she skated competitively, but eventually switched her focus to broadcasting. After a two-year stint as a weather girl on Canada's Weather Network, the twentysomething Barberie arrived stateside, enchanting (and sometimes annoying) viewers on Fox's Los Angeles morning show and
NFL on Fox. With her model looks (including her signature, Cindy Crawford-esque beauty mark), her impressive sports knowledge (she was married to baseball player Bret Barberie, after all) and her outspokenness, she became a recognizable personality and landed numerous hosting gigs and guest spots (more or less as herself) on myriad TV shows (
VIP;
Good Morning, Miami).
Jillian Reynolds Fast Facts:
- Growing up in Canada, she skated competitively until her early teens.
- As a weathercaster in Miami, provided 48 hours of live reports on the devastation of Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
- Guest hosted on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee in 2000, and was reteamed with Reege for Fox's 2005 New Year's Eve coverage.
- Committed to the prevention of animal cruelty.
- "Most of the time when people see me on TV, I'm brash and very opinionated and irreverent and glib," she told TV Guide in 2006. "People tend to love me or hate me and a lot of them just think I'm annoying."
- Jillian Reynolds Relationships:
- Ruby Raven Reynolds - Daughter
- Rocco Rio Reynolds - Son
- Bret Barberie - Ex-husband
- Grant Reynolds - Husband
- Jim Warry - Father
- Mariel Warry - Mother
- College:
- Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology, Hamilton, Ontario (BA in Broadcast Journalism)