Cortland woman gets TV gig on hunting show

Cortland’s ‘Hot Housewife’ does transitions on ‘Doc’s Team Extreme.’

BY JORDAN COHEN

VINDICATOR CORRESPONDENT

CORTLAND — Things are heating up for Cortland’s Lisa Neeld, whom Playboy magazine dubbed a “hot housewife” in a photo shoot earlier this year.

Neeld has been added to the cast of “Doc’s Team Extreme,” a hunting show nationally broadcast on Fox Sports Network and produced by Cortland resident Keith “Doc” Ainsley.

“I’m doing segues [transitions] between segments and commercial breaks, and I wear camouflage,” Neeld said. “I guess you could say it’s rather sexy camouflage.”

That’s understandable since Playboy also included her in what the magazine called its “Sexy 100 Collector’s Edition.”

Neeld, 30, who described herself as a “stay-at-home housewife” taking care of her two children, said she is surprised by the way her life has changed since the Playboy photos were published and posted on the Internet. She has already begun co-hosting a radio show on WNCD 93.3 on Monday afternoons.

Neeld’s segues are videotaped in a Youngstown-area production studio and she does not go out in the field with the host. “I really don’t know much about hunting,” she said.

That’s about to change, according to Ainsley. “We’re going to teach her all about the sport and eventually take her with us on hunting trips,” Ainsley said. “We want to make sure she handles her role in a professional manner.”

Ainsley, who has been producing and hosting “Doc’s Team Extreme” for seven years, admits that Neeld’s Playboy photos were behind his decision to include her on the program.

“The truth of the matter is that it helps to have a pretty gal talking about our sport and introducing it to people who might eventually be interested in becoming hunters,” Ainsley said.