Keith Olbermann Net Worth

Keith Olbermann's Quotes

• [about a home-run hit during a baseball game] It's deep and I don't think it's playable!
• [about a hockey goal] He put the biscuit in the basket!
• [From a series of Boston Market advertisements] Eat something!
• [on being fired by Current TV] I screwed up really big... I thought we could do this. It's my fault that it didn't succeed in the sense that I didn't think the whole thing through. I didn't say, 'you know, if you buy a $10 million chandelier, you should have a house to put it in. Just walking around with a $10 million chandelier isn't going to do anybody a lot of good, and it's not going to do any good to the chandelier.' And then it turned out we didn't have a lot to put the house on to put the chandelier in, or a building permit, and I, I should have known that. And it is, it is my fault at heart ... Now, I've been in situations in my lifetime where the second I agreed to something, I got that sinking feeling in my stomach and I said to myself on those occasions, 'Holy goodness, I've just made a huge mistake.'
• words of advice for his Bill O'Reilly after he was fired for sexual harassment accusations]fess up

Interesting Facts about Keith Olbermann

1. Doesn't drive because of a loss of depth perception caused by a head injury. In 1980, he hit his head on the top of a subway door while running into the waiting car.
2. Worked for CNN, WCVB in Boston, & KTLA and KCBS in Los Angeles before working for ESPN. Ramped up ESPN2's SportsCenter. Also worked for KFWB Radio, FOX Sports, ABC Radio, and MSNBC.
3. Is Mike Tyson's cousin by marriage. The niece of Tyson's adoptive father, Cus D'Amato, married Olbermann's father's brother, making Keith and Tyson cousins.
4. Shoe size is 13 1/2
5. He has Celiac disease and must eat a gluten-free diet
6. Has never been married and has no children
7. In 2004, was voted #1 sexiest male newscaster by Playgirl magazine.
8. Since making amends with ESPN, he has emerged back on ESPN's Dan Patrick radio show. Olbermann shares a daily one-hour segment with Patrick that they call "The Big Show." It is a reference to a time, in the mid-1990s, when Olbermann and Patrick were the staple anchors of ESPN Sportscenter's most important time slot, 11p.m., East Coast time.
9. Outspoken critic of President George W. Bush.
10. Is a fan of Family Guy (1999) and did a voice for the episode "It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One". He has since become good friends with Seth MacFarlane.
11. Is a huge fan of comedy, frequently referencing Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, The Simpsons (1989), "Monty Python" and George Carlin (the inspiration for his trademark "Worst Person in the World" segment) as well as more obscure sources such as Bill Hicks and "The Kids in the Hall". His favorite sitcom of all time is the BBC series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976).
12. In November 2008, it was announced that Olbermann had signed a four-year contract extension worth an estimated $30 million.
13. Before the 2010 Massachusetts special election, Olbermann called Republican candidate Scott Brown "an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, Tea Bagging supporter of violence against women, and against politicians with whom he disagrees". He apologized shortly after the statement.
14. Claimed that he did not vote in the 2008 Presidential election.
15. Fan of Howard Stern.
16. Briefly dated conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham in the 90's. She is a frequent recipient of Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" awards.
17. During a period in the mid-1990s, Olbermann appeared in a series of Boston Market advertisements, in which he would instruct a group of underweight models to "Eat something!".
18. Since beginning Countdown's "Worst Person in the World" segment in July 2005, Olbermann has given rival Fox News host Bill O'Reilly the dubious honor (repeatedly).
19. Keith Olbermann's father, Theodore, died on March 13, 2010 of complications from colon surgery in September 2009. His mother also died months before.
20. His father was of approximately one half German, one quarter Polish, and one quarter Ukrainian, descent. His mother's ancestry included German, Dutch, Belgian, English, Irish, and French.