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ESPN’s Pat McAfee is following in Stephen A. Smith’s footsteps and expanding his brand.
While Smith aims to become the next President Of The United States, McAfee is targeting a career in Hollywood.
On Thursday, Bloomberg reports that McAfee has hired Hollywood super agent Ari Emanuel, who plans to turn the ESPN host into the “next Sylvester Stallone.’
Ari Emanuel is trying to turn Pat McAfee into the next Sylvester Stallone.
Though Emanuel no longer runs Endeavor, the talent agency he co-founded, on a daily basis, he is the executive chairman of WME Group and represents a handful of high-profile clients like Larry David and Seth MacFarlane. He’s added McAfee to the list and has started to book him into film and TV roles.
While McAfee currently hosts his daily ESPN show, he’s also on College GameDay and works as a commentator for the WWE.
Now McAfee is acting and will be featured on several TV shows/movies in the coming months.
McAfee has a four-episode arc on the upcoming season of Tulsa King, the Paramount+ crime show created by Taylor Sheridan and starring Stallone. McAfee has also booked a part in Peter Berg’s upcoming movie The Mosquito Bowl, a sports drama based on a book by Buzz Bissinger, the author of Friday Night Lights. (Berg is also an Emanuel client.)
It seems like McAfee can do whatever he wants these days,