‘Get the hell out of my face’: Reporter destroys obnoxious fan on live TV

A sports reporter is being hailed for her quick reflexes after she knocked back a fan on live TV, saying: “Get the hell out of my face.”

A sports journalist is being praised after she strong-armed this obnoxious fan. Picture: Twitter.

A Miami sports reporter covering a hockey game is being hailed for her quick reflexes after she knocked back an obnoxious fan who was trying to get into her shot on Monday night.

CBS journalist Samantha Rivera was reporting live from at Florida’s T-Mobile Arena, recapping Game 2 of the NHL’s Stanley Cup finals in which the Las Vegas Knights beat the Florida Panthers 7-2.

Suddenly, a loudmouthed fan butted into her shot — or at least tried to.

Listen, I don’t give a damn what team you’re rooting for - get the hell out of my face when I’m working and respect that I’m here to do my job.

Excited to get back home to some classy #Panthers fans for game 3!! pic.twitter.com/iWDQl0Rtvv

— Samantha Rivera (@JSamanthaRivera) June 6, 2023

Impressively, the fan barely made it on-screen before Rivera strong armed him out of the shot.

She knocked him back with one arm, still holding a phone with her anchor notes on it, before pushing him back with a second hand and saying: “Nope, nope, that’s the kind of fan you don’t want to be.”

The sports journalist didn’t break eye contact with the camera once throughout the ordeal and continued on with her report immediately after.

Rivera held the fan out of the frame. Picture: Twitter.

She then pushed him away. Picture: Twitter.

“Listen, I don’t give a damn what team you’re rooting for,” Rivera wrote on Twitter afterwards.

“Get the hell out of my face when I’m working and respect that I’m here to do my job.”

“Excited to get back home to some classy #Panthers fans for game 3!!” she added.

Speaking of fans, Rivera has found herself with more than a few of them on Twitter.

Rivera didn’t break eye contact through the exchange and immediately continued with her broadcast. Picture: Twitter.

“Didn’t even break eye contact. Smile didn’t falter for a second. Laid an NFL-grade stiff arm on a dude twice her size. The poise. The focus. I’m in awe. Hall of fame stuff,” one person wrote of the iconic video.

“I felt her arm in my SOUL,” said fellow journalist Tori Mason, sharing a gif of an NFL face-palm.

“This was somehow the most dominant showing of the night,” joked another. “He will never emotionally or physically recover from this.”

A third concurred: “She played better Defence than the Panthers tonight.”

Originally published as ‘Get the hell out of my face’: Reporter destroys obnoxious fan on live TV