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No no. Tiki met her at NBC while he was working there and she was an intern. Y’all this is common knowledge. This is why he got let go from NBC.
He as at college parties!! It was in all the tabloids when this went down. He got her the internship!!!
tiki started the affair with her while she was in college after meeting her there at an event he was speaking at and then after the affair started he GOT HER the job at NBC…… that’s why he got fired
This isn’t true
Nunya (aka Marge) you are wrong it is true . He got her the job at NBC and he got fired . Sorry bout it
But they met when she was an intern at NBC. I know this because when I interned at NBC they had a super strict no dating policy because of them.
Hi Teresa!
Also, who cares at this point if that’s even true? Last marriage didn’t work out and they are married with kids at this point. Obviously feel bad for the previous wife but everyone has moved on.
Traci and Tiki have been married for 10 years. The beginning of their relationship was public knowledge back then too. Why are people still thinking this is breaking news?
Because she denied the affair when it IS common knowledge lol
She denied being the nanny. There’s a difference.
NY Post article from 2010 about their “relationship” at her college Mount St. Mary in 2008:
https://nypost.com/2010/04/08/tikis-babe-sitter/
Finally someone brings the receipts! Thank you!
“The father of Tiki Barber’s young blond mistress unwittingly bragged to friends that she baby-sat for the ex-Giant’s kids — and that Barber then helped land her an internship on the “Today” show, a neighbor told The Post yesterday.”
Poor dad really didn’t get it.
More excerpts (but the full article is better):
“On her 21st birthday, he sent her 21 dozen roses to her dorm. He also gave her a diamond and sapphire bracelet,” the source said. “At this point, she had a boyfriend, and told him that she and Tiki were ‘just friends,’ but nobody bought it.
“He gave her and her friends [Giants] jerseys for them to dress up in on Halloween . . . He would shower her with designer handbags and expensive clothes.”
The source said “he came to the school, and she introduced him to her friends.
“One night, he sneaked into her dorm and stayed over the night,” the source said. “The next day, Traci didn’t want to let him out of her room to use the bathroom because she was worried someone would see him and catch them.
“Traci said that she didn’t expect him to leave his wife, and that [Ginny] was so pretty.”
Another former college classmate of Johnson said, “She was not shy about their relationship.”
Multiple sources — including a Mount St. Mary spokesman — said Johnson’s senior project was about Barber’s line of children’s books.
Because of her project, Barber was invited by Mount St. Mary in the spring of 2008 to speak about his football career and retirement. He was also feted with a steak dinner attended by Johnson, other students and faculty.
Although Barber’s camp refuses to say when his friendship with Johnson turned into more, the couple was spotted together at the upscale restaurant Nina’s in upstate Middletown last November with another couple.
“His wife is Asian and the woman he was with was definitely not Asian. It was that woman,” said the waiter who served them there, pointing to the cover of yesterday’s Post, which featured Johnson’s picture.
A source in New York’s nightlife scene said, “Tiki has always been a family man, but in the last nine months he’s been showing up around town with Traci.
She recently attended the Winter Olympics with Barber — who introduced her as his “assistant” — and also traveled to the African nation of Senegal with him.