One of the members of the WWE broadcast team is the backstage interviewer and host of the Raw After Show, Jackie Redmond. She recently shared her thoughts on former WWE announcer and current AEW Backstage Interviewer, Renee Paquette.
While speaking on the Gabby AF podcast, Jackie Redmond shared her thoughts on Renee Paquette and her mentorship.
“First off, she is such an amazing person. You started us off with pumping my tires about being genuine and stuff. Renee (Paquette) is that way. Renee is somebody that is such a great teammate. She’s been a great mentor to me. Even though time will go where we don’t talk for a while, any time I reach out to her and need something or vice versa, she’s always been there and always been really cool about that so, I have all the time in the world for Renee but, we go back so far.” [H/T POST Wrestling]
Jackie Redmond on when she met Renee Paquette for the first time
“Renee and I met before she was ever even at WWE, because she started in sports at the same network that I did and I did a reality show in Canada at the time that was called Gillette Drafted: The Search for Canada’s Next Sportscaster. Picture, like, American Idol but for sports broadcasting. That’s what it was. There was three judges, you had challenges, someone would get eliminated. The line was like, ‘You will not be drafted.’
“It was a whole thing and Renee was on that panel of judges. She was working there. She had already started establishing herself as a sports personality in Toronto and in Canada, and so, I won the show, it’s not a big deal. Season three. Only girl to ever win it, and so, Renee though, was on that judging panel so she had a hand, quite literally, in deciding if I was gonna win this show and be given a job at this network. So, that alone, I feel indebted to her in a lot of ways for the rest of my life.”
Redmond said that Paquette was always there for her, whether it was for advice or just to have sushi. Redmond called Paquette an instrumental figure in her career, and she would respect Renee whether she helped her or not.
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