ESPN's Shannon Sharpe Reveals He Accidentally Posted Live Sex Video On Instagram, Was Being A 'Healthy, Active Male'

ESPN’s Shannon Sharpe has opened up after accidentally posting a sexual encounter on Instagram Live, saying he was just being a “healthy, active male.”

During his “Nightcap” podcast, the Hall of Fame tight end admitted that he did post the video after initially claiming he was hacked.

🚨TRENDING: #NFL icon Shannon Sharp just ADMITTED THAT HE & A PARTNER OF HIS WERE HAVING S*X ON HIS IG LIVE.

Shannon originally claimed he was hacked, but took down that post.

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“This was not staged,” Sharpe said on his podcast. “I came in, threw my phone on my bed, and engaged in an activity.”

Sharpe went on to say he’s never been on Instagram Live before and doesn’t know how it works. He explained he didn’t know what was happening until his other phone started blowing up and receiving messages about what was happening.

“Man, my heart sank,” Sharpe stated. “It dropped.”

Sharpe added that he’s “embarrassed for a number of reasons” since people count on him.

“I’m very disappointed in myself, not for the act — I think there are millions and billions of people of consenting age that engage in activity — but to have your most intimate detail on audio to be heard, I’m disappointed in myself,” he said.

The video didn’t show Sharpe and the woman engaging in sexual acts, but you could hear them the entire time.

Sharpe, who is a co-host on “First Take,” revealed he called ESPN to explain the incident.

“After a thought, I was like, I just got — I just tell them the truth,” Sharpe said, via The Wrap. “I said, ‘I just got to tell them the truth. My phone wasn’t hacked, it wasn’t a prank. It was me being a healthy, active male.”

In 2021, ESPN fired Paul Pierce as an NBA analyst after he posted a live Instagram video showing him with strippers and smoking weed. It remains to be seen if the network will take any action against Sharpe.