Fox News host Sean Hannity and fellow Fox host Ainsley Earhardt got engaged over the holidays, the couple said.
Sean Hannity proposed to Earhardt at their home church over the Christmas holiday, the couple revealed to their employer, Fox News, in an interview Thursday.
The newly engaged couple said they enjoy the blessing and support of their children, who “couldn’t be happier” for them.
“We are overjoyed and so thankful to our families for all of their love and support during this wonderful time in our lives,” Earhardt and Hannity said.
The couple told Fox that they originally bonded over their deep faith.
“The two have placed God first in their relationship, thus rendering the proposal at their home church as the ‘perfect place’ to pop the question,” Fox reported. They met with their minister after the engagement.
The couple are two long-time staples at Fox, hosting two of the network’s most popular shows.
Earhardt joined the network in 2007, after serving as an anchor for CBS-owned KENS-TV in San Antonio, Texas, and WLTX-TV in Columbia, South Carolina, for which she was honored “Best Personality of the Year” in Columbia Metropolitan Magazine. In 2016 she joined the “Fox & Friends” morning show as a co-host, where she remains today.
Hannity, previously a radio talk show in Atlanta on WGST-AM, joined the Fox network in 1996. His solo hour show “The Sean Hannity Show” launched in 2009, enjoying top-viewership ratings for 15 consecutive years.
In January 2024, Hannity announced he had left New York for the “free state of Florida,” and was broadcasting his show from his new home in the Sunshine State.
“For the first time that I can think of in my adult life, I actually have representatives in the state that I’m living in that share my values,” he said at the time. “So I’m feeling a lot better about it.”
Earhardt remained stationed in New York, but the couple has made their long-distance relationship work with weekend trips between New York and Florida, Fox said.
According to Vanity Fair, the two were first presumed a couple in August 2019, after they arrived together as guests for a wedding at Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Hannity, who turns 64 on Dec. 30, has a son and a daughter from his previous marriage with Jill Rhodes, a political commentator, with whom he lived for almost 30 years.
Earhardt, 48, has a 9-year-old daughter from a previous marriage with former Clemson University quarterback Will Proctor, whom she married in 2012 and divorced in 2019. Earhardt’s first marriage was to Kevin McKinney, from 2005 to 2009.
The couple said they “still get along well” with their previous spouses. “Everyone is supportive of each other,” they told Fox.
“We actually made them aware this was happening ahead of time.”
A wedding date has yet to be announced.