Erin Andrews, the stunning sports reporter for ESPN and standout performer of the last season of Dancing with the Stars, is taking legal action.

Andrews has announced she will be suing a number of hotels who allowed a known stalker to find out where she was staying, who then proceeded to film her nude in her hotel room and post the footage online.

The glamorous Andrews, 32, is suing both the Radisson Hotels International and Marriott International Hotels for negligence, as well as invasion of privacy and causing emotional distress and invasion of privacy. Her actions follow the sentencing of former Illinois insurance salesman Michael David Barrett four months ago to two-and-a-half years in prison after he was found guilty on a range of stalking charges.

The prosecution in the case alleged Barrett had made contact with 14 separate hotels to ascertain reservation information on Miss Andrews. Barrett pleaded guilty to renting hotel rooms next door to Andrews in no less than three cities, while firstly in Columbus, Ohio, in 2008 and then Nashville, Tennessee, in 2009 he was found to have created peepholes and used his mobile phone to video Andrews. He then attempted to sell the videos to online celebrity site TMZ who declined to purchase the footage. He then uploaded the video himself online where it went viral in a matter of days.

Andrews is seeking $1.2 million (£784,000) from the respective hotels and from Barrett himself, in the Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago, for severe and permanent emotional distress.