22-year-old ESPN employee Brooke Hundley, who had sex three times with ESPN’s Steve Phillips, who was still married at the time, wrote this Oct. 5 message currently on her Facebook account: “David Letterman yet another dirtbag with no morals on television surprise surprise….Jimmy Kimmel’s better anyhow.”
Today she messaged her Facebook friends: “Don’t believe everything you read in the papers … If you’re a friend of me, it’s like the papers have or will ask you to comment. Please refrain from saying anything.”
This afternoon, Phillips announced that he is taking an indefinite leave of absence from ESPN, following his initial one-week suspension from the network. He has not been fired, and the leave is apparently voluntary.
I spoke this morning to a former acquaintance of Hundley’s. Here’s what that person had to say about Phillips’ fling.
“She (Hundley) never got in trouble, from what i know of. But she’s not the least bit outgoing/flirty in person. she’s real quiet and reserved. She was known to have an obssessive streak, so I’m not surprised by the news.
“She always worked in sports going back to college. I’m assuming this ESPN job was a dream for her. She is an avid baseball fan and did well in school. Quite intelligent”
Sounds like garden-variety, college-age girl who was awed by being around such big celebrity like Phillips. I can certainly see what they saw in each other. Yeah.
It’d be a shame though if she lost her job over her nutty behavior, since Phillips clearly took advantage of a her. I don’t blame her in the least for what happened. And for all I know, ESPN will do nothing with her in this situation. Though she has already been reassigned off baseball and is now working in ESPN’s NASCAR Dept. according to a source.
As for Phillips, he’s career roadkill. I feel for his wife and kids, just a horrible situation. They don’t deserve this. It’d be one thing for Phillips to have done this as a single man, but to do that to innocent people is just unimaginable. No words.
2:58 pm on October 21st, 2009
So ironic how she disses David Letterman but I’m sure if sleeping with Steve Phillips or whoever else at ESPN would get her a job that paid $200,000 per year like Stephanie Birkett, she would do it.
She loves baseball and knows that Steve is an ex-GM with a lot of connections in MLB. Maybe she was networking that way.
3:03 pm on October 21st, 2009
Why Steve? She’s a porker!!!!!
3:27 pm on October 21st, 2009
and she’s not much to look at either…wtf was Steve thinking or looking at?
3:38 pm on October 21st, 2009
you dont “…blame her in the least”?
I disagree. she is old enough to know better. and for her to comment the way she did on her facebook shows she is not only immature, but is a major hypocrite.
3:50 pm on October 21st, 2009
I knew she’d get a Kimmel reference in there. Hundley interned on Jimmy Kimmel Live before ESPN
3:55 pm on October 21st, 2009
Come on, Anonymous. Everyone knows it’s OK for a young ambitious woman to sleep with the boss, but it’s not OK for the boss to sleep with a young ambitious woman.
4:13 pm on October 21st, 2009
he should be fired he is obviously vision impaired, what an embarrassment!!
5:11 pm on October 21st, 2009
I think they are all dirtbags with no morals, but on the flip side I find the people with the highest morals very boring and very devious. Middle of the road, as far as morals go, is the place to be.
6:22 pm on October 21st, 2009
Speaking of morals - the moral of this story is that you should only cheat with good lookin’ women…
7:19 pm on October 21st, 2009
Is she a true lefty or a switch hitter. Looks like a switch hitter to me
7:37 pm on October 21st, 2009
“It’d be a shame though if she lost her job over her nutty behavior, since Phillips clearly took advantage of a her.”
How is that clear? Were you present during their interactions? Come on.
8:57 pm on October 21st, 2009
My only advice to her is to eat a meal that doesn’t include Ranch Dressing this month. I’d rather look at a decaying maggot filled hyena than have to lay eyes on that dumpster fire.
12:04 am on October 22nd, 2009
ESPN is doing everything they can to sweep this under the rug. Phillips makes Sean Salisbury look sane by comparison, as Sean would never nail a slumpbuster like this skank.
12:04 am on October 22nd, 2009
Another idiot in the world. Surprise, surprise.
5:37 am on October 22nd, 2009
She’s mad cuz Letterman turned her down….
8:35 am on October 22nd, 2009
Based on pictures of Ms. Hundley, it appears Steve now has a new career as an MLB playoff umpire. . .
9:46 am on October 22nd, 2009
In that pic, she’s at MLB Network’s studio. Has anyone bothered to ask Harold Reynolds alibi?
10:03 am on October 22nd, 2009
As I’ve read elsewhere, following Phillips’ career with the Mets and his choice of mistress, he really CAN’T judge talent.
10:04 am on October 22nd, 2009
While I’m sure a Disney network has morality clauses, it might not be that easy to fire Phillips (without having to keep paying him).
I’m not saying she should get fired, but she is a grown up, and at least should be prepared for the consequences of having a relationship with a coworker (which may or may not be against policy), and the whole stalking thing.
4:52 pm on October 22nd, 2009
If anyone, the girl should have gotten fired for her melt down and embarrassment to ESPN. He tried to end it, she blew it up.
12:06 pm on October 24th, 2009
Steve Phillips is a sick, twisted, demented, sexual deviant but should not be fired from ESPN. He sexual indiscretion is not cause enough to fire him, and as many have mentioned, Letterman still has his job. Just because the sordid, seedy details were plastered all over the NY Post, Foxsports and the MSN hompage, it doesn’t make Phillips transgressions any worse or less than Letterman’s. What Phillips is guilty of is being a serious freak. Brooke Hundley is possibly the most unattractive being on the planet, looks dirty and smelly, is grossly overweight, and quite frankly looks like a man. That is the worst part of this saga, and I empathize with Marni Phillips and their kids. Imagine the humiliation that Phillips sons are going through in school, now that everyone knows their dad was fucking an Oger. How can Phillips ever show his face in public again?
2:37 pm on October 26th, 2009
Steve, Steve, Steve. Oh the humanity.