Shannon Sharpe Reflects On Trying To Change His IdIolect

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Shannon Sharpe recently topped Complex’s sports personalities list and opened up about his path to the top including trying to change his speech.

During troubling times and uncomfortable changes when you finally reflect, you can appreciate the journey and the lessons. For Shannon Sharpe, his journey includes leaving FS1’s UNDISPUTED after seven years and eventually landing on his feet.

The NFL legend has podcasts in partnership with Colin Cowherd and is now a part of the ESPN family.

According to Complex, this makes for a great story and landed him as their #1 most entertaining sports personality of 2023.

During his interview with the publication, Sharpe touched on his former goal of changing the way he talks for his journey in broadcasting.

“I went to so many speech therapists and pathologists trying to change the way I talk. And then I just realized that’s not who I am,” Sharpe said. “The listening audience, the viewing audience is never gonna believe this is who I am. They’ve heard me speak enough to know what I sound like and how I should sound. And once I went back to being who I was, my authentic self, it seemingly took off for me from there.”

One thing about Shannon that will never change is that he is a country boy from Georgia and all the things that make him “Uncle Shay Shay” are why we love him.