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Tony Reali is a sports personality and TV host for ESPN. He also works as a stat boy on the ESPN flagship show, Pardon the Interruption. He is an Italian-American and is also a devout Catholic. He is very spiritual and believes that faith is very important for his life. The funniest thing about his personal life involves romance. He got engaged to his girlfriend in an airport bathroom. He carried the engagement ring in a box inside his shoes. He gave the bag to the hotel. When he came back to the hotel after the show, he was shocked by what he saw. The bag which contained the ring got misplaced. After a few minutes, they finally realized that the bag was at the airport. After a few minutes of investigation, they got him the bag. He took his girl to an area near the bathroom to check whether the ring was safe. He ripped open the box and took the ring out. He couldn’t hold it in anymore and decided to propose to her in front of the bathroom. He joked that he proposed at the most romantic place on earth.

Reali grew up in Marlboro Township, New Jersey and graduated from Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, New Jersey. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in both Communications and History from Fordham University. Reali is very public about his faith in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God">God</a>. He is known for wearing ashes on his forehead on-air on ESPN every Ash Wednesday.

Reali joined ESPN in 2000 as a researcher and writer for ESPN's quiz show 2 Minute Drill. He later joined a more known program called Pardon the Interruption in October 2001 as "<a href="/biography/tony-reali">Stat Boy</a>", where his role was to correct and fact-check the main hosts <a href="/biography/tony-kornheiser">Tony Kornheiser</a> and <a href="/biography/michael-wilbon">Michael Wilbon</a> at the end of every episode. Reali became so popular that he started appearing daily on <a href="/biography/tony-kornheiser">Tony Kornheiser</a>'s radio show for a daily segment called "Preview the Interruption", in which he discussed what was going to happen on PTI later on that afternoon. After Reali became the host of Around the Horn, his popularity continued to rise.

He also earned some respect as <a href="/biography/tony-kornheiser">Kornheiser</a> and <a href="/biography/michael-wilbon">Wilbon</a> eventually started introducing him by his actual name instead of simply calling him "<a href="/biography/tony-reali">Stat Boy</a>." On occasion, <a href="/biography/tony-kornheiser">Kornheiser</a> will add several ridiculous middle names when introducing him to poke fun at his long full name such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Joseph">Anthony Joseph</a> Lisa Lipps Reali. In addition to conducting his usual fact-checks, Reali also judged <a href="/biography/tony-kornheiser">Kornheiser</a> and <a href="/biography/michael-wilbon">Wilbon</a> when they played the games "Oddsmakers" and "Report Card" on the show and introduced the topics for segments such as "Over/Under" and "What's the Word." On September 5, 2014, Reali did his last show of Pardon the Interruption. His next step in life was moving to New York City to become a social media correspondent on Good Morning America, a job he only held for a couple months.

In February 2004, Reali replaced <a href="/biography/max-kellerman">Max Kellerman</a> as the host of Around the Horn, the show that precedes PTI in the ESPN weekday schedule. Reali was already a familiar face on the show because he was a <a href="/biography/tony-reali">guest host</a> on Around the Horn six times and was also a panelist six other times before becoming the official host. As host of Around The Horn, Reali awarded points at his own discretion based upon the quality of the panelists' comments. Reali is known for his in depth knowledge of sports statistics and fact corrections of panelists on Around the Horn. He deducted points or muted the guest when a nonsensical comment was provided and awarded points when a panelist made a convincing argument, bold prediction, or amusing pop culture reference.

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In the early hours of October 1, 2007, Reali's apartment was destroyed by a fire. It was an incident acknowledged by <a href="/biography/tony-kornheiser">Tony Kornheiser</a> on Pardon the Interruption on the day of the fire and by Reali himself, along with various correspondents on Around the Horn. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Mariotti">Jay Mariotti</a> verified that no one had been injured in the fire. The fire took place a few days after he proposed to his longtime girlfriend, and now wife Samiya Edwards who works as an Africa policy consultant.

Reali gives himself credit for coming up with the names of his son and daughter; Fiorello and Fiorella La Guardia Reali. He said that he would tell them about his hilarious engagement story after they were old enough to understand. A few days later after his engagement proposal, his apartment caught fire with the insurance papers of the ring unsigned in the apartment. Everything in the apartment was destroyed. The next day, he insured the ring and they got married in the same year.

The engagement story came out years after his marriage. He tweeted about it in an interesting way. He has not mentioned anything about his relationship with his new wife and how his life is going on. It seems that he wants to keep the serious details about his personal life private but is more than willing to tell the funny stories. The way he explained the ring story was appreciated by the public because it showed a very human side of him. People feel he should have trademarked the story and made it into a movie.

A lot of Reali’s personal life are kept away from the public. He never mentioned how he met his girl or why the fell in love in the first place. He just mentioned her as stats girl. His childhood, his relationship with his parents and his dates and relationships before stats girl are kept private. His wedding pictures and details about the ceremony are also not available to the media. If he had not tweeted about his bathroom engagement story, his personal life would have been totally unknown. Apart from his marital life, he is very devoted to his religion. The stats girl is also very cautious of the media and has not shared anything personal about her husband or how her marital life started with him.

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