Evan Roberts (radio personality)

Evan Roberts (born July 11, 1983) is an American sports radio personality. He co-hosts the Joe & Evan show with Joe Benigno weekdays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. ET on the New York radio stations WFAN-AM and WFAN-FM.

Evan Roberts
Roberts at Citi Field, 2012
Born	(1983-07-11) July 11, 1983
Career
Show	Joe & Evan
Style	Sports radio
Country	United States

Roberts grew up in Cedarhurst, New York and graduated from Lawrence High School in 2001.[1]

Roberts' career began at the age of 10 when he had an opportunity to do updates for WFAN's Imus in the Morning radio program.[2] He then hosted his own radio show called Kidsports on WGBB and expanded it to a wider kids audience with a show called Going Bzircus; a few years later, he hosted "What's Up With Evan Roberts" and Nets Slammin' Planet [3] with Albert King and Brandon "Scoop B" Robinson for the now-defunct Radio AAHS (later AAHS World Radio) children's radio network.[4] In 1996, Roberts played "Boy Dancing in Field with Father Lawrence" in the film Tromeo & Juliet.[5] In 1997, Roberts played a role in the Howard Stern's movie autobiography Private Parts as Elliot.[6] After graduating from high school he worked for XM Satellite Radio[2] in Washington, D.C. for 2 years. In 2003 and 2004, he worked for WJFK in Baltimore, Maryland and then moved back to New York to host his own show on Maxim Radio, a channel on Sirius Satellite Radio.[7]

Roberts is an avid fan of the New York Mets,[1][8] Brooklyn Nets,[1] New York Islanders,[9] New York Jets[10] , as well as WWE.

On June 2, 2016, Roberts was hit by a New York City taxi while out on a sick day, fracturing his L1 vertebra, which caused a flare up of his psoriasis and asthma.[11]

Roberts' wife gave birth to a boy, Jet Alexander Roberts, on September 11, 2016. [12]