“This was the turning-point moment for me and my father, the summer I said, ‘I have to get out.’ I was working at Hickory House, his barbecue place, filling a truck with big cookers of ribs. Dad was drunker than usual and abusing me in front of the staff, throwing these scalding-hot cookers at me so I’d burn my hands. ‘What’re you doing? You want to fight me?’ I said, and he goes, ‘Yeah. Let’s see what you got.’ So we go to a back storeroom, and he takes his stance, comes at me with a big old roundhouse. I casually half-ducked it and creamed him with a right, knocked him into a vat of potato salad. He got up spitting fury and said, ‘Go home to your mother!’ Screamed me out the door yelling that. He died five years later, during my first year out of college. That was the last time we really talked.”
Skip is married to Ernestine Sclafani, who is a publicist. They met on ESPN’s show ‘Cold Pizza’, a floundering show that Skip helped put back on track. Ernestine is fiercely private and therefore, for the first few years, it was thought that her existence was a rumor. Even after the rumors about her being a fake story hit the internet hard, Skip did not comment on his wife.
There are no pictures of Ernestine Sclafani on internet sites and no wedding pictures were uploaded either. It looks like Skip wants to share a lot about his personal life, but she does not like to be noticed. He mentioned that his first marriage was to his college sweetheart, but it ended in a divorce. He never gives any reason for it, except that it was a “big mistake”. The details about the alimony, spouse support settlement, and his current relationship with her are all unknown. There is no information on whether he has any kids from his first marriage.
His net worth is 4 million dollars and he draws an annual salary of 500000 dollars per month. He and his present wife, Ernestine, live in different cities for their work, but they meet each other on every weekends, and have a strict friday night routine of watching Jeopardy episodes. Skip talks a lot about Ernestine on his show.
He once apologized to her on the show as he could not spend that sunday with her. He also apologized her on his show for doing weird things. He says that his wife once threatened to file for divorce if he continued with a superstition he has when it comes to sports, that if she sits with him during a game, the game goes against his team. He has ‘proven’ it to her a number of times, but she keeps saying that it is all hogwash.
Return to the previous page| Height: | 1.78 m |
| Wife: | Ernestine Sclafani |
| Birth Place: | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States |
| Nationality: | American |
| Net Worth: | $7 Million |
| Profession: | Sports Journalist |
| Alma Mater: | Vanderbilt University |
| Salary: | $5,500,000 |
| Ethnicity: | White |
| Birth Sign: | Sagittarius |
| Date of Birth: | 04-12-1951 |
| Marital Status: | Married |
| T.V. Show(s): | First Take Since 2007 |
| Birth Date: | 4 Dec, 1951 |
| Age: | 68 yrs |
| Occupations: | Television personality Author Celebrity |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Oklahoma City |
| residence: | Los Angeles |
| Education: | Vanderbilt University |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American sports columnist, author, and television personality |
| Twitter Id: | Realskipbayless |
| Net Worth 2021: | 17 million |
