Sports Host Skip Bayless Calls Taylor Swift ‘Not Hot’: ‘Don’t Understand Her’

Don’t expect it Skip Bayless being on the receiving end of someone Taylor Swift Friendship bracelets in the near future.

Skip, 73, who formerly appeared on ESPN First recording and FS1 UndisputedHe discussed the pop star with his wife. Ernestine Sclafani Baylesson the Monday, December 2 episode of his podcast “The Skip Bayless Show.”

“I know I’m un-American, but I’m not a Taylor Swift fan,” Ernestine, 62, said bluntly. Skip quickly agreed and said, “I don’t understand her.”

Ernestine, who married Skip in 2016 after dating the sportscaster for ten years, continued: “She seems like a nice person and does wonderful things for children and everyone loves her and adores her.”

However, when it comes to the music blaring through her home, Ernestine is no slouch The Tortured Poets Department.

“I prefer to listen Bonnie Raitt” she said. In fact, Ernestine argued that Swift, 34, partly owes Raitt, 75, for shaping her sound.

“That’s partly the origin of their music,” Ernestine said. “It’s very similar.”

Ultimately, Skip boiled the entire conversation down to the question “hot or not hot?”

“Taylor Swift for me? Not hot,” Skip said, adding, “But that’s just me. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

Ernestine called Swift “a sweet girl,” but that’s about as far as the compliments go. “I know people like her,” Ernestine said, “but she’s not on my turntable.”

Skip co-hosted ESPN’s sports debate show First recording next to Stephen A Smith from 2012 to 2016 before leaving the network and starting FS1 Undisputednext to cohost Shannon Sharpein September 2016.

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In August 2024, Skip announced that he was leaving the show to “pursue other opportunities.”

Skip’s former co-host Smith, 57, had far more positive things to say about Swift earlier this year – particularly about her attending Kansas City Chiefs games in support of her boyfriend. Travis Kelce.

“I have to take a moment to defend Taylor Swift,” Smith said on ESPN in January. “Everyone sits up there and acts like she’s an obstacle.”

Smith continued: “Sorry, she was doing her job! The Epoch tour? Off the chain. Billions generated. She will support her friend. Showing up at a football game and the cameras are on her – that’s not her fault! And by the way, excuse me, she went to the games after the concerts. It’s not like she used the games to boost concerts.”