Jackie Redmond is a rink-side reporter for NHL on TNT and a backstage interviewer on WWE Raw. Redmond won a Canadian sportscasting reality show in 2011 to get her start, spent six years as a Sportsnet anchor and several more hosting NHL Network’s daily show NHL Now, and joined Turner Sports in September 2021. In November 2025 Redmond revealed she was no longer with NHL Network, and has never said why.
| Full name | Jackie Redmond |
| Nationality | Canadian; based in Nova Scotia |
| Role now | Rink-side reporter, NHL on TNT |
| Also | Backstage interviewer, WWE Raw; appears in Prime Video’s Faceoff: Inside the NHL |
| Previously | The Score, Rogers Sportsnet, NHL Network (NHL Now) |
| Started | Won Gillette DRAFTED season 3 in 2011 — the only female winner |
| Known for | Working an NHL playoff series and Monday Night Raw in the same week |
Who is Jackie Redmond?
Jackie Redmond is a Canadian broadcaster who covers the NHL and professional wrestling. Redmond grew up playing hockey, along with baseball as a pitcher and basketball as a point guard, and credits her father with teaching her that “I had a voice and my opinion was relevant.” Redmond’s career began in 2011 with a reality-show win, and she has been blunt about the label that followed: “I won a contest because a lot of people told me when I first started out, ‘You’re just a contest winner.'”
Is Jackie Redmond still on NHL on TNT?
Yes. Turner Sports hired Jackie Redmond in September 2021 as an NHL rink-side reporter, though visa issues delayed her on-air debut into the 2021-22 season. TNT Sports named Redmond to its 2026 Stanley Cup Playoff broadcast crews in April 2026, working with Brendan Burke and Darren Pang. TNT’s NHL rights deal runs through 2027-28.
When did Jackie Redmond join WWE?
1 October 2021. The origin story is a cold call: Michael Cole, the voice of WWE, phoned Jackie Redmond while she was covering the Stanley Cup Final in Montreal. Redmond’s first question was about the day job — “Do I have to stop doing this hockey show that I’m doing?” Cole told her, “You got it; if you want it, it’s yours.” Redmond began co-hosting the post-shows Raw Talk and Talking Smack, and was promoted to Monday Night Raw backstage interviewer in mid-2023.
How old is Jackie Redmond?
Jackie Redmond’s date of birth is not confirmed by any reliable source. A birthday in April 1987 circulates widely, but it traces to an uncited encyclopedia entry rather than to Redmond or to any outlet. The documented anchor is that her career began in 2011.
Is Jackie Redmond married? Does she have children?
Jackie Redmond is married to Emmett Blois and has spoken about him publicly — in a January 2024 interview Redmond mentioned living in Nova Scotia with her husband, and that he had installed a pickleball court in their garage.
