Primetime Fox News veteran Sean Hannity proposed to morning show host Ainsley Earhardt at their home church in Florida over Christmas.
“We are overjoyed and so thankful to our families for all of their love and support during this wonderful time in our lives,” the couple said in a statement provided to Fox News on Thursday.
Hannity has called the network home for 28 years, while Earhardt joined the right-wing cable channel in 2007 and became a Fox & Friends co-host in 2016. She also hosts a Bible study program on a Fox News streaming platform.
Hannity, a 62-year-old New York City native, announced at the start of 2024 he was broadcasting his eponymous show from his new home in “the great free state of Florida,” where he currently resides. He bought a house near Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2023, according to the Daily Beast.
Earhardt, 48, hails from South Carolina and is based in New York City. According to Fox News, she and Hannity plan to remain in their current residences and continue their long-distance relationship, with weekend trips between Florida and New York.
The couple said their upcoming marriage has been given the blessing of their children, who “couldn’t be happier.” Hannity shares two adult children, Patrick and Merri, with ex-wife Jill Rhodes, to whom he was married from 1993 until their divorce in 2019. Earhardt is twice divorced and shares 9-year-old daughter Hayden with ex-husband Will Proctor.
In June 2020, sources told People that Hannity and Earhardt had been “secretively” dating for years. Hannity and Rhodes did not publicly confirm their divorce until earlier that month but had reportedly separated years prior.
When and where the newly engaged pair will tie the knot has not been announced.
Hannity and Earhardt aren’t the first couple to have found love while working at Fox News. Jesse Watters, whose evening show leads into Hannity’s, married former Fox News producer Emma DiGiovine in 2019.
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