Gary Tanguay Age, Wikipedia Bio, Wife, Family, Salary, Health, Net worth

Name Gary Tanguay

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB Born in 1964. As of 2024, he is around 60 years old.

Wedding / Wife / Partner / Marriage / Spouse Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.

Wiki Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

Gary Tanguay is a sports reporter, anchor, and actor. Currently, he is a co-host on NBC Sports Boston and also writes for several publications.
The Maine native is a proud father and also has a modest social media following. Though he studied journalism in university, he had several other jobs before landing a full-time position as a sports reporter, which he has now held for more than two decades.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

Gary was born on May 25, 1964, in Rumford, Maine. He has one sibling, a sister named Marie.
Gary’s mother, Bertha passed away in 2000 & his father lives in Gary’s hometown.

He grew up in a small town called Fryeburg, near Rumsford.
Gary married his wife, Randi, in 1998.
Randi & Gari have three children, daughters – Harper and August, and son, Van. The children often enjoys tickets to a few events Gary covers.

Though he sometimes clashed with his Sports Tonight co-host Greg Dickerson, the two generally got on well with Gary stating, “If we were alike, it (the show) wouldn’t work.”

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

Gary graduated from the University of Maine with a BA in Journalism/Speech Communications.

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

Gary has taken roles on several shows including Uno’s Sports Tonight, Early Edition (June 2000), Fox Sports New England(1998), Fox Sports Net New England (2000), FSN New England (2004), Comcast SportsNet New England (2007) and finally on NBC Sports Boston in 2017.
Previous to his work as a talk show host, Gary had several jobs, both journalism associated and not. This includes disc jockeying for WABI radio, part-time broadcaster on WEEI radio, sales in a band design firm & some sports reporting for WBZ radio station.

Gary has also done several acting roles (mostly as a newscaster or reporter) in movies like Gone Baby Gone, Stiffs, Adventures of Serial Buddies and Bleed for This.
After acting as a replacement host for Rich Shertenlieb in the radio show Toucher & Rich on WBZ FM, Gary received criticism for derailing an interview with then Winter Olympic curling correspondent Trenni Kusnierek. This resulted in some ribbing by the two hosts of the show in their next broadcast.

Fun Facts, Height and Trivia :

Gary has over 50,000 Twitter (now called X) followers and a public Facebook account.
His favorite movies are Animal House, The Rock, The Usual Suspects and Nobody’s Fool.
He rates Bill Russell, John Havlicek, Troy Brown, Tom Brady and Lyndon Byers as his top five New England athletes.

Gary regularly shares short videos that he calls “velfies” (short for ‘video selfies’) on his Facebook.

Health Update :

Gary Tanguay Illness / Sick : In April 2019, Gary was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He announced it on Twitter (now called X) by posting a video.

2 thoughts on “Gary Tanguay Age, Wikipedia Bio, Wife, Family, Salary, Health, Net worth”

Kris Robins Feb 21, 2022 at 12:10 am


Moved back to New England last year after being away for ten years and was sorry to see Gary Tanguay is no longer on TV. NBC Sports Boston made a big mistake letting him go.
Rich Sep 7, 2021 at 3:54 pm


I’ve always liked Gary. That’s it.