# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/skip-bayless
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:59:56.084Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/skip-bayless"
name: "Skip Bayless"
slug: "skip-bayless"
description: "Skip Bayless is an American sports columnist, commentator, and television personality. He is well-known for his work as a commentator on the ESPN2 show First Take with Stephen A. Smith, a show which he left in June 2016. Bayless debuted his show Skip and Shannon: Undisputed with Shannon Sharpe on Fox Sports 1 in September 2016, which he led for eight years until he left in August 2024."
tagline: "American sports columnist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/First_Take_Salute_the_Troops_broadcast_(cropped2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951-12-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.683521333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/realskipbayless"
    handle:    "realskipbayless"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/skipbayless/"
    handle:    "skipbayless"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/RealSkipBayless"
    handle:    "RealSkipBayless"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1716493/"
    handle:    "nm1716493"
sources:
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    title: "スキップ・ベイレス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3"
    title: "سكيب بايلس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3"
    title: "سكيب بايلس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Bayless"
    title: "Skip Bayless"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Bayless"
    title: "Skip Bayless"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Bayless"
    title: "Skip Bayless"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7535646"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1222706"
    title: "Skip Bayless"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump