Dating & Relationship status

Magary was one of the founding contributors to the NFL humor website Kissing Suzy Kolber. He later became a contributor to the sports website Deadspin and became the site’s resident columnist, providing humorous commentary and answering reader mail in an irreverent and often profane style. In addition to the main Deadspin site, he also contributed to its culture sub-site The Concourse and humor sub-site Adequate Man. His annual “Why Your Team Sucks” columns were one of the most popular features on Deadspin, in which he roasts every NFL franchise and mocks the weaknesses of both the team and its city. He announced his resignation from the site via a post on his personal Kinja page on October 31, 2019.

When asked to elaborate on what happened, Greenwell stated, “We’re not giving details out of respect for his family’s privacy. Thanks for understanding.”

On December 21, Magary tweeted, “So I’m drinking and singing bad karaoke and I pass out, then I start choking on my blood,” which was part of a thread in which he explained that he needed emergency neck surgery and stayed in a coma for a week. Magary later described the tweets as “an incoherent, blazingly inaccurate summary” written while still disoriented from the medically-induced coma. The tweets were all subsequently deleted. On Christmas day, his wife tweeted the following from his account, “Hey universe. Drew’s wife here. He wanted me to pass on MERRY CHRISTMAS! He is doing better. Wanted to clarify what happened to him as he falsely tweeted last week while cooped up in a rehab bed. He was not drunk when he suddenly collapsed. He is on his way to recovery.”

On April 25, 2019, Magary for the first time disclosed accurate details in his annual pre-NFL Draft Jamboroo column: “Nearly five months ago, I suffered a severe brain hemorrhage while I was just standing around at a work party. When I collapsed I fractured my skull. That fracture tore through the inner ear on the right side of my head, rendering it inoperable for good.”

On May 16, 2019, Magary authored an editorial which laid out the details of his accident and his subsequent recovery.

On October 31, 2019, Magary announced his resignation from Deadspin. Since the purchase of Deadspin in April 2019, editorial and journalistic staff had complained about mismanagement, which culminated in the departure of the entire editorial and journalistic staff during October and November 2019.

On December 10, 2018, Deadspin editor-in-chief Megan Greenwell made an announcement stating:

The last time Magary tweeted before his accident was on December 5, 2018 at 10:22 p.m. EST — the same been in a relationship with? as the annual Deadspin Awards he attended, which took place at the Irving Plaza in New York.

In April 2015, Magary appeared on the ninth episode of Chopped’s 22nd season, which featured other amateur home cooks, and won the episode’s $10,000 prize. After the episode aired, his Deadspin colleague and former NFL player Chris Kluwe posted a satirical review of the episode.

Magary has worked frequently as a correspondent for GQ magazine. In 2013 Magary interviewed Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson for the magazine and the article became widely covered for several controversial comments made by Robertson, particularly concerning homosexuality. He has also written articles for NBC, Maxim, Rolling Stone, Comedy Central, New York, ESPN, Yahoo!, Playboy, The Atlantic, and Penthouse.

In 2012, Magary applied to appear on an amateurs episode of the cooking competition show Chopped. He posted the answers to the application’s questions in an installment of his humor column on Deadspin.

Drew Magary (born October 7, 1976) is an American journalist, humor columnist, and novelist. He was a correspondent for GQ, has written three novels, and formerly was a long-time columnist for Deadspin. He currently writes for Gen.Medium.