Brooke Hundley: Steve Phillips “bought me a strong drink and then cornered me … trying to persuade me to come to his hotel suite to spend the night.”
Courts, Legal, ESPN, Media Gossip/Musings October 23rd. 2009, 9:15am
Steve Phillips allegedly texted “inappropriate things” to the 22-year-old ESPN production assistant he had an affair with, causing Brooke Hundley to file a restraining order against him in August, according to TMZ. The timing of the restraining order is important - Hundley filed it on August 20. On August 19, she dropped the disturbing letter off at Phillips’ house, prompting Marni Phillips to call 911.
In an effort to create a timeline:
* Three amorous encounters between Phillips and Hundley in July/August.
* A flurry of texts and calls from Hundley to Phillips’ wife in August.
* Hundley delivers the letter on August 19
* Hundley files a restraining order on August 20.
* Sometime between August 21 and September 9, word must have gotten around the ESPN set - Deadspin claims it received a tip about Phillips September 9.
* For some unknown reason, Hundley withdraws her restraining order on September 15.
The answer to this likely won’t be known until Hundley talks, but the question lingers … did ESPN get Hundley to withdraw her restraining order?
The restraining order development will be crucial to Phillips’ future employment at ESPN. If Hundley hadn’t withdrawn it, then Phillips’ transgression is considerably worse than what got Harold Reynolds fired (complaints against him were only through human resources, not the police). But the fact that she withdrew it could save Phillips.
ESPN also has to grapple with the question: Do we believe her allegations in the restraining order? How seriously can we take the word of a women who created a fake Facebook account to befriend Phillips’ teenage son online? How much stock can you put in the word of a young woman who harassed Phillips’ wife with text messages and left that haunting letter at his front door?
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113 Responses to “Brooke Hundley: Steve Phillips “bought me a strong drink and then cornered me … trying to persuade me to come to his hotel suite to spend the night.””
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October 23rd, 2009 at 9:19 am
tampa’s favorite picture!
Phillips will never be seen on ESPN again, and most likely, in public either
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:19 am
Cornered her?!
Hell hath no fury like a baby elephant scorned.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:20 am
if he was smart he would have put a jelly donut on a string, that woulda lured her back to his place no problem
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:20 am
i still cannot get over this small fact about phillips:
of all the chicks there to “corner” and coerce… her???
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:21 am
Carb Carb Binks
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:22 am
Alcohol is a magical drink. I bet it made her look like more of a three.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:22 am
how do you “corner” a circle?
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:23 am
Ha, TBL’s going to get that PI license yet.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:23 am
Quote of the Day. Well played, GSG…
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:23 am
shes the one acting like a pyscho bitch. Why isnt SHE suspended or fired? All he did was fuck her.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:24 am
lol
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:25 am
OOhhh, that one got me laughing, haha.
About as much as I believe the reno horse faced money grubber’s court filing.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:25 am
“bought me a strong drink
I’m going to guess it was horse tranquilizers and milk, per her request.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:25 am
Just twittered by Tom Jackson - sorry didn’t twitter for a few days. was very busy and a pretty tough week for some of the folks at espn, not yours truly
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:26 am
I can’t believe she was a boxer in college. Crazy.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:26 am
Nice work jpq.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:27 am
he got the idea watching a rodeo cowboy trap a pig
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:27 am
i honestly think i’ve run out of insults.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:27 am
Texans - She’ll probably get promoted first. The lawyers will go after all the angles, concerned with if they fired her they could have a lawsuit on their hands because of some shit like “I was a young woman having un-wanted sexual advances by a superior, older man and I’m getting fired for coming out?!”. Then a year down the road she’ll forget to dot an “i” or something like that and they’ll fire her for sloppy unreliable work.
Phillips? If he’s back on ESPN I’d be surprised.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:27 am
VADER FIST PUMP! YEA!
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:27 am
Love that distancing…no stank on me ya’ll!
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:28 am
phillips has to be so embarrassed that he was caught with this pig. screams clinton/lewinsky
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:28 am
I don’t see how both won’t be fired. you can’t fire one without the other, and since it’s so public, canning the girl will only put her right on the top of the list for talkshows and free makeovers. Give her two days to go on GMA, Today, Oprah and the View and ESPN will look like garbage.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:30 am
This shit just keeps getting crazier.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:30 am
The thing for me is this: You know how you say, “if that chick lost a good 2–30 pounds, she’d probably be pretty cute”. If this chick lost 20-30 pounds, she’d look more like David Schwimmer.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:30 am
She could go on Extreme Makeover : House Edition
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:31 am
phillips has to be so embarrassed that he was caught with this pig. screams clinton/lewinsky
Monica Lewinsky had a pretty face, at least. This thing belongs under a bridge, thinking up questions.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:31 am
“Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon… you know, ’cause I-I’ve worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time.”
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:31 am
trust me. that’s not a tough sell.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:32 am
i was thinking Dog Whisperer.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:32 am
awesome
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:32 am
+1
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:33 am
Sweet Lemonade
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:33 am
i can see how phillips might keep his job, but this chick? how do you keep an employee he puts another employee’s family in danger? i’m surprised she still has a job.
disney mustlove paying retainer fees for its legal counsel.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:33 am
its kinda like being acused by a bitch at work for sexual harassment, they find out she was lying the whole time and company policy is to not fire her for false statements.
fuckin women man. They hold the key to peoples careers outside their own and can ruin one in a heartbeat.
/join marine corps infantry, police swat,etc to keep from working with them
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:34 am
Just twittered by Tom Jackson - sorry didn’t twitter for a few days. was very busy and a pretty tough week for some of the folks at espn, not yours truly
LeBatard had Mort on yesterday, and I’m driving and listening, and I think: “Mort’s drunk”. He’s making little sense, not hearing/understanding questions, etc.
Finally LeBatard says, “Mort, you been drinking?”, and he’s like “aaa, I got a bottle of DiSoronno (at least I think that’s what he tried to say) on the table”
I immediately thought, I bet there’s a lot of that going on right now
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:35 am
+2 Chipotle burritos for Dirtheavy
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:36 am
get on my horse I’ll take ya ’round the Universe.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:36 am
Poor thing…ruined her chance at decent work for the next 10 years, and she certainly can’t fall back on her looks, especially now that all the horse and steer stud farms are cutting back.
Also, I don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but how has Phillips not heard of Barney’s Hot-Crazy scale? This girl is CLEARLY way below the Mendoza diagonal…
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:36 am
You know you could have just gone into any field requiring knowledge of math and science?
/1950′d
//still kinda true tho
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:37 am
wow
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:38 am
Awww poor successful men, can’t harrass/fuck a coworker in peace this day and age, you really have to feel for them..
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:38 am
actual question: Worth calling a lawyer to find out why someone might withdraw a restraining order?
If you’re so jilted - which she was, based on the letter - why withdraw the restraining order?
fishy.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:39 am
come on now, Coop. You know it takes math to figure out the fractions of a cup of laundry detergent.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:39 am
I can understand where you’re coming from, but if it’s consensual should the guy lose his job?
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:39 am
Where the fuck is MikeNYC hes as close to a lawyer as we got
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:40 am
no, there’s lawyers that comment here. ask one of them.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:41 am
both should lose their jobs for being idiots. you know that’s how it would happen just about anywhere else.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:41 am
i know i probably pissed off all the women on this site and TBL is probably getting an ass load of emails for password request
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:41 am
Get rid of both of them. Who the fuck is gonna miss Steve Phillips anyway?…be sides Brooke.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:42 am
actual question: Worth calling a lawyer to find out why someone might withdraw a restraining order?
Where the fuck is MikeNYC hes as close to a lawyer as we got
my wife’s a lawyer but won’t help us out because Shatner called her a housewife in the Round-up
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:42 am
Phillips FAIL deserves to be played off by keyboard cat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtNoS6–9Rw&feature=related
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:43 am
If one of the two is in a subordinate position, then it’s not considered completely consensual and the higher up should be canned. Just so happens that usually the man is the higher up…
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:43 am
JPQ shes a woman lawyer she doesn’t count.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:44 am
My wife does a lot of family law and sees that happen all the time. The woman gets pissed at her piece of shit bf/husband and files a PFA (protection from abuse). Of course, that shit becomes a matter of public record and the dude doesn’t want that. The bf/husband sweet talks the woman (in this case with a box of Krispy Kremes and assorted Jedi sex toys) and the PFA disappears.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:45 am
Come on, guys… She has feelings!
/mamalickaboobie (or whatever his name was)
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:45 am
i know i probably pissed off all the women on this site and TBL is probably getting an ass load of emails for password request
cj, v4l and guinness girl are cool and can live with your chauvinistic comment. For Sportsgal, on the other hand, put on your 7 second TBL delay and be prepared for a performance that would make Lisa Lampanelli’s act look like Jeff Foxworthy’s
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:45 am
If you’re good looking enough, they’ll never file a complaint for boinkin’ and fleein’
/High horse’d
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:46 am
Just so happens that usually the man is the high
even that doesn’t justify this.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:46 am
Darth Vader Death Grip Cock Ring
Ewok Handcuffs
Lightsaber Vibrator
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:47 am
The guy hasn’t lost his job. I agree if it was consensual that they both should or they both shouldn’t. Not one of the other. But harassment laws are in place because of women being taken advantage of for decades, so don’t ask me to have any fucking sympathy if it turns out he was pressuring her.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:47 am
jpq - it’s friday and friday-sportsgal is usually laid back. I think we’re in the clear.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:48 am
I didn’t work many civil cases, but I’m guessing that ESPN intervened as both were working for the company. They couldn’t force her to drop it, but I’m guessing they warned her that both would have to take a paid leave of absence until the matter was resolved.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:50 am
Darth Vader Death Grip Cock Ring
That actually sounds awesome. It would be even cooler if it had lights on it that made your dick look like a lightsaber.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:50 am
well played, JPQ.
Cracker - I’m not asking you to have sympathy. If he was pressuring her he should definitely lose his job.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:51 am
I’ve only been practicing for a couple of months, and only had one family law situation, so, I’m probably not the best lawyer to answer this, but, if she filed it the day after she went crazy trying to approach his wife and his wife called 911, she could have just been trying to cover herself, make herself seem more of a victim or whatever.
She also could have gotten the restraining order just to fuck with him, which, I think is why alot of them get put into place. So, she could have withdrew it after Phillips talked to her about it. Or, she was still working with him.
I wouldn’t put much worth into the contents of the restraining order, especially, but, also that she withdrew it.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:51 am
hush cash?
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:53 am
jpq - it’s friday and friday-sportsgal is usually laid back. I think we’re in the clear.
miz: thx. please post the schedule, as I’d like to know when it isn’t, as that’s when I’d rather be off TBL and having a root canal done
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:53 am
I dont think so shes still driving that Prius.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:54 am
@TBL -
I don’t think its been mentioned, but one reason to withdraw a PFA or Restraining Order is so she could still see him. With a PFA or R.O., neither party is allowed within x-feet of eachother. She may have changed her mind.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:55 am
Yeah sorry that wasnt directed at you, that was for TexansFan’s ignorant comment.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:56 am
BUT the restraining order looks terrible for Phillips. A co-worker does that to you and there’s a chance you’re getting fired.
ESPECIALLy considering the history there (ie Harold Reynolds).
The lawsuit this woman could open up against ESPN would be a large one.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:57 am
I dont think so shes still driving that Prius.
Why do fat people insist on driving the smallest cars?
@miz - Do you know when S&F is starting their college bball previews?
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:57 am
“a strong drink” = gravy laced with skittles
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:58 am
Goes without saying, hi-yo!
/Ed McMahon’d
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:58 am
I interview for a new job this week. I saw at least 5 chicks Im going to try to bang. I need to pay close attention to this and see how it plays out.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:59 am
Timing of the restraining order is certainly suspect. This girl seems looney tunes.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:59 am
Chocolate Syrup laced with M&Ms?
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:00 am
TBL - While I was on sabbatical from commenting (punishment for being caught wagering on the Culture Tournament) I seem to recall you did a post about a visit to Bristol. I’ve got to ask… is this “office hot” at the worldwide leader?
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:00 am
You could be talking about pretty much anyone here
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:01 am
This girl needs 24-hour around the clock professional help just for creating a fake facebook to talk to the kid. The note isn’t as big a deal.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:02 am
I’d schedule that root canal for any day Monday thru Thursday.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:02 am
Nothing like office hot. Last office I was in, three or four office hot women. Left the office, saw the three or four, and thought, wow…what was I thinking.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:03 am
am i the only one who was disappointed she drove off in a prius instead of rolling down the hill after delivering the note, like one of our esteemed colleagues suggested happened?
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:03 am
I work at a radio station. there’s no such thing as “office hot”.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:04 am
Whitlock column on the Phillips saga is coming out today. It’ll be interesting to see how he can bring race into it. Shouldn’t be hard…compare to Reynolds should be all it takes.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:05 am
It looks terrible for him and it puts him into a position of having to defend himself. But, all I meant by not reading into the restraining order so much is that the person getting the restraining order can say pretty much whatever they want in those.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:05 am
Whitlock still comment on here?
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:06 am
ill - I’m not really sure. I’ll talk to the boss-man.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:07 am
LOL!
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:11 am
ill-shoot me an email.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:11 am
Sorry if this was posted previously. There is no higher comedy than a dbag making lewd jestures behind the hottie reporter.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:14 am
The Trunchbull and Darth Vader is the yang to Tebow and Godzilla Biscuit’s yin.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:23 am
Whitlock still comment on here?
I’m not sure, you’ll have to ask dirt about that
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:26 am
I know i haven’t seen him since he decided that picking on people was funny, two days after he claimed to have thick skin.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:31 am
crackerjack obviously didnt read my comment. if a woman falsly claims sexual harassment and ruins a guys career but it is found out that she is lying the whole time and she doesnt get in trouble..thats what i have trouble with.
the rest of it was tongue in cheek.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:33 am
This.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:35 am
lol
commenters have been A-Rod-hot this week. makes me never, ever want to get embroiled in any kind of scandal.
haven’t see a whitlock comment in awhile.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:42 am
Go fuck yourself.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:45 am
sportsgal:
I was kidding. Sorry!!!
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:53 am
Whitlock column, not comment. He will have a column on foxsports sometime today about Phillips.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:59 am
Whitlock column, not comment. He will have a column on foxsports sometime today about Phillips.
@Chelsea: he meant on here at TBL. He’s commented on here a few times over the years
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:14 am
phillips proves slumpbusting doesn’t always work
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:38 am
No pun intended, right TBL?
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:38 am
Okay, excellent investigative work and reporting by TBL Godfather, but at this point I think we get it for the married readers who enjoy living vicariously through many of us single guys on other posts.
TBL Godfather keeps posting this now because just likes all the new fat chick jokes.
In tribute to you and this affair here we go again with this cheesy classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:43 am
Don’t worry Texans. When the depression hits after this recent bullshit “recovery” the puppets keep talking about on TV, most of the ninnie bitch types sheltered for some sort of undue corporate circles should be whoring for sandwiches at best. No pity for any dudes staying with such ninnie whores right now.
/American Beauty’d
//Patricias Like From “Everybody Loves Raymond”
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:46 am
No Texans I think I took care of that a long time ago. Water under the bridge no worries. Party on and carpe diem!
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:49 am
Is there anyone else like me who could care less if that race-baitin’ media circle-jerk writes and rides again or not?
I’ll handle him when he comes on here the same way I handled him back on 8 May right on here as everyone else posted in small-town admiration like they never met a celebrity offline — with the obvious truth about his pre-internet media circle-jerkin’ ways including stickin’ up for his “homeboy” the lameass Stuart Scott and the like.
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:53 am
The last site I worked at, my past girlfriend was the hottest chick on site but the competition was limited to only three others, but I did not get mixed up until I knew my exit strategy. Sure enough not long after my exit, we broke up because things were just not working out, but the key is not being in a position where you have to see such a person at work or where you live.
I knew from prior experience that whenever you even change work site or even local zip codes, chicks don’t like it and you’ll probably be breaking up. They are just weird and complicated.
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:25 pm
I not a lawyer, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn last night, but isn’t it pretty much impossible to work with/for someone if you have a restraining order against them?
Maybe she had to drop it to remain employed.
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
chris brown has a ro, but the court said if it is work related, he just has to stay like 10 feet away or something.
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
So that would be like 10 feet away from one side and 6 feet away from the other?
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:38 pm
For sake of a legal CIVIL order for protection from abuse, as in to avert the conduct of the abuser/stalker before it becomes criminal, it depends on its stipulations that might NOT include at the workplace.
In any case, even with a prescribed distance at the workplace, he could always crop dust her but it would not change her fart face or that of any of the ninnies in Bristol.