She has continued to act. She made a brief cameo appearance in the Brad Pitt feature film Moneyball as well as a recurring role in TNT’s television drama series Southland. Guerrero also co-hosted VH1’s game show The World Series of Pop Culture. In 2010, Guerrero hosted the first live webcast of the 82nd Academy Awards red carpet for Oscar.com, integrating viewers’ questions from Facebook into celebrity interviews. In January 2012, Guerrero hosted Shooting Stars: Salute to Service, a reality competition show on the Velocity channel.

She and her former husband, retired baseball pitcher Scott Erickson, made an independent film, A Plumm Summer (2007). Guerrero played the lead role and was also credited as executive producer.

On June 15, 2006, Guerrero became a correspondent on the TV news magazine Inside Edition. She later became the show’s Chief Investigative Correspondent and has worked on undercover stories and investigative reports. In 2011, she won the National Headliner Award for Best Investigative Report, beating Anderson Cooper for her undercover exposé on air duct cleaning scams.

In 2003, she left The Best Damn Sports Show Period to join ABC’s Monday Night Football television crew. #8: Lisa Guerrero on Monday Night Football (2003, ABC)] The show hired her with the intention of making her a sideline reporter — personality-driven and feature-driven — but later changed their minds. Guerrero left the Monday Night Football team after one season.

In 1999, Lisa Guerrero moved to the Fox Network, where she participated in such shows as Sports Geniuses, Fox Overtime, Fox Extra Innings and the Toughman competition shows. Guerrero travelled to Egypt to tape the special Opening the Tombs of the Golden Mummies and starred in the San Diego Chargers magazine-style television show. Guerrero also co-hosted The Best Damn Sports Show Period, alongside Tom Arnold, John Salley, John Kruk and Michael Irvin.

Guerrero began her show-business career in the 1980s as a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Rams, after which she became Entertainment Director for the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots. In the 1990s, she starred in Aaron Spelling’s Sunset Beach as the female jewel thief Francesca Vargas. She also guest-starred in Frasier (the “Odd Man Out” and “Frasier’s Imaginary Friend” episodes), The George Lopez Show and In the Heat of the Night. In 1997, she became a sports anchor on Los Angeles’ KCBS-TV and later KTTV.

Guerrero was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Walter Coles, an American of English descent, and Lucy Guerrero, who was from Chile. Guerrero spent her childhood living in San Diego, California, and Huntington Beach, California. In 1972, when she was aged eight, her mother died of lymphoma cancer. To cope with the loss, her father enrolled her in theater therapy.

Lisa Guerrero (born April 9, 1964) is an American investigative journalist, keynote speaker, actress, former sportscaster, host and model. Since 2006, Guerrero has been an investigative correspondent for the nationally syndicated newsmagazine Inside Edition.