Courtney Friel, poker hostess and all-around reporter, has worked with everyone from the World Poker Tour to FOX News. Along the way, she’s gathered a legion of fans with her good looks and easy charm. She can currently be seen on the news program Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld, where she serves as a guest contributor.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland on April 22nd, 1980, Friel grew up in a Philadelphia suburb along with her two sisters. Her early goal in life was to be a television weather girl, and she spent hours producing shows in Methacton High School’s TV studio. She was cast in a Love’s Baby Soft perfume commercial on MTV, and that helped land her a role on Kid TV, a news program seen in schools across the country, during their Student Produced Week.
Courtney Friel and MTV News
She attended Elon University in North Carolina for her first year of college, but the lack of real news stories caused her to move to Los Angeles. There, she took an internship with MTV News and did freelance work for the Oxygen Network (including the teen-oriented show, Trackers). She obtained a BA in Political Science (with a minor in Broadcast Journalism) from San Diego State University, and she later interned at the local NBC affiliate, KNSD.
Friel sent out resume tapes and soon landed a job with WBBJ in Jackson, Tennessee. She shot, edited and wrote her stories (the first of which was a tornado that totaled her car and destroyed much of the town).
Courtney Friel - The World Poker Tour
She later received a job as a reporter and anchor at the CBS affiliate in Palm Springs, California, and The World Poker Tour offered her the opportunity to host the show’s fourth season in place of Shana Hiatt. Courtney Friel traveled to poker tournaments around the world, and, in her words, “I remind people that even when they finish sixth, they’ve still won $250,000.
As part of her job with the World Poker Tour, Friel posed in a sexy bikini for FHM magazine. While she considered the layout appropriate for her job at the time, she later removed the pictures from her website after being hired as a correspondent for FOX News.
To prepare for the WPT, she was sent to a poker boot camp. She did very well there, even winning her first student tournament by defeating Mike Sexton. Friel’s stint with the WPT was a success, but she moved on the following year in pursuit of bigger and better opportunities.
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The Many Jobs of Courtney Friel
Friel has served as a correspondent for America’s Most Wanted on FOX and The Saturday Night Solution on COURT TV (which focuses on everything from psychic detectives to forensic science). She has been a sports anchor and entertainment reporter for GoTV Mobile Television and a field reporter for E!, Oxygen, VH1, ET Canada, G4, Game Stop, Comcast Cable and Extra. Always one to stay busy, she has also hosted shows for Loews Theatre and Nickelodeon.
Friel currently lives on the East Coast and works for FOX News in New York. Her husband is CBS news reporter Carter Evans, and they have one cat, Tucker. The couple were married in 2005.
