Ben Lyons
Lyons in March 2012
Born	Benjamin Lyons (1981-10-08)October 8, 1981 (age 43) New York City, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Entertainment reporter, sportscaster
Years active	2002–present
Relatives	Margaret Lyons (cousin)

Benjamin Lyons (born October 8, 1981) is an Americanentertainment reporter andsportscaster. He is the co-host of Bonjour Sports Talk onAmazon Prime Video's sports channelSports Talk.

Lyons is the son of entertainment reporterJeffrey Lyons and the grandson of the American newspaper columnistLeonard Lyons.^[1] His cousin, Margaret Lyons, is a television critic forThe New York Times.^[2]

Lyons started his own production company in 2002 and produced segments for the TV show,Hip-Hop Nation. In 2004,MTV hired him to co-hostYour Movie Show. In 2006, Lyons hosted entertainment segments onThe Daily 10. In addition, he began to write a column forE! Online called "The Lyons Den".^[3] Lyons hostedMy Family's Got GUTS, on Nickelodeon and has appeared inDisaster Movie andThe House Bunny. He is a regular contributor toGood Morning America. In 2012, Lyons left E! and became a correspondent onExtra.^{[citation needed]} Lyons also joined ESPN as a commentator in 2012.

In September 2008, Lyons became a co-host of the TV show,At the Movies.^[4][5] Critics said Lyons lacked a proper understanding of film history,^[4] used language that sounded like movie advertising (in order to promote his own profile),^[6] and had a conflict of interest with some actors whose movies he reviewed.^[4][7]Roger Ebert gave implied criticism of Lyons in his online blog.^[8][9] Lyons and his co-host,Ben Mankiewicz, were fired from the program less than a year later, in August 2009.^[10][11]

Lyons also hosts a podcast ofThe Players' Tribune.^[12] Lyons is ESPN Sports Commentator. Lyons was named Fathom Events host in April 2016.^[13]

In 2022,Embassy Row announced that Lyons will co-host Bonjour Sports Talk with Madelyn Burke onAmazon Prime Video.^[14] On November 14, 2022, Lyons made his debut with co-host Madelyn Burke on Bonjour Sports Talk.^[15]

Lyons was inducted into the Southern California Sports Hall of Fame in 2020.^[16]

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• LAist.com Interview with Ben Lyons

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