The future of Shannon Sharpe in ESPN’s “first shot” can be in danger after it was a battery battery and drums.
Sharpe’s coanfrerion, Stephen A. Smith, went to the legal battle in his homonymous podcast on Tuesday, suggesting that the network is considering the former NFL player out of the air.
Smith, 57, told the listeners that he recently spoke with the Honcho ESPN Jimmy Pitaro, who made it clear that they were taking the accusations “very seriously.”
Athegh The personality of television is true that “recruited Shannon” to join him in the program in June 2023, he has noticed that he “is not the boss” and “has no idea which director ESPN and Disney will enter when it comes to this matter.”
“I can tell you that I also talked to Disney’s co -chair, the boss, Jimmy Pitaro, who made it very, very clear [that ESPN] He is taking this matter very seriously and we are investigating this very, very closely and once we gather as many facts as possible, we will go from there, “he explained.
“And that’s all he said. And I can mention his name, I recovered his permission to say that.”
Smith said he doesn’t know exactly “what that means” for Sharpe, but he expects his “friend” to clarify in the matter.
“In my perfect world … the case is ultimately falls and Shannon is allowed to continue ‘the first shot’ and continue thriving and shining and having an illustrated career in the stratosphere of the podcast,” he continued. “In my perfect world, go ahead, and somehow, in some way, we find that all this is false.”
However, he pointed out that “it does not seem that this is the way things are about to fall.”
Like ESPN, Smith is waiting to have all the facts before making a call call.
“Although I received love and respect for Shannon Sharpe and I have sincerely hopeful and prayer that he is an innocent of the accusations that have legs imposed against him, I cannot sit here and talk to the innocence that is a mountainous table.”
The sports station said “spoke” with Sharpe and “emphatically proclaimed her innocence.”
Sharpe was live in the air with Smith on Monday when the news about the demand of $ 50 million bombs broke.
In her complaint, Jane Doe said Sharpe sexually assaulted her at the end of 2024 and again in early 2025.
The woman, who is more than 30 years younger than Sharpe, said that she with the former athlete in a gym in 2023 and was in a “rocky relationship” for almost two years.
Do alleged that Sharpe “forcible raped her anically” in October 2023 after she began to distance herself after learning that she slept with another woman.
She said he assaulted her again in January 2025 without using protection.
Sharpe “categorical” denied all his accusations of “coercion and misconduct, especially the serious lie of” violation “, and his legal team published numerous explicit text exchanges that supposedly had from March 2023 to January.
His legal team said that correspondence showed that the two had “a consensual relationship of adults that included the role of roles, sexual language and fantasy scenarios explicitly requested by [Doe]. “
In response, the women’s legal team published several alleged audio recordings between the two in which Sharpe threatened to “drown.”
They also published a text message in which the woman supposedly faced Sharpe about the alleged assault on January 2.
“I cried when you stay because you put a condom and you don’t put it on my butt and you didn’t hear,” he supposedly sent a text message to Sharpe, according to TMZ.
“I don’t care what our story is,” he continued, “does not mean Shannon.”
Sharpe and the woman entered mediation to try to solve the problem weeks before the demand reached the headlines.
Sharpe’s lawyer said that Doe “demanded dozens of millions of dollars … in exchange for not publishing” a sex tape that both parties agree.
Meanwhile, the lawyer, Tony Buzbee, told Page Six that Sharpe offered his client $ 10 million to settle before things were made public.
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