Chris Connelly (reporter)

Chris Connelly is an American sports and entertainment reporter.

Connelly joined ESPN in 2001 to host the daily interview program "Unscripted with Chris Connelly", designed to be a more contemporary version of the long-running "Up Close" interview show which previously occupied the 5PM ET timeslot. The show lasted only a few months before being replaced by an early "SportsCenter" and eventually "Around The Horn".

Since the cancellation of "Unscripted," Connelly has reported and narrated the long-form human interest reports that air on "SportsCenter" on weekends. Most notably, he annually does a one week series called "My Wish" involving athletes fulfilling kid's Make a Wish Foundation wishes. Connelly also helped ABC and ESPN cover the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2006; he conducted interviews with finalists who had just been eliminated.

Before joining ESPN, Connelly spent nine years at MTV (1993-2001). He hosted the pre-shows for the MTV Movie Awards and prior to that, The Big Picture, a weekly show with features and movie reviews. He was also an editor and reporter for "Premiere" magazine, eventually becoming Editor in Chief. After six months however, Connelly resigned in a dispute over journalistic integrity after the owner of the magazine reportedly asked that he quash a story that unfavorably portrayed a business associate.Fact|date=January 2008

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