Devout Family Values Fox Host Sean Hannity Engaged for Second Marriage
Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt got engaged over the holiday, the network announced Thursday.
“We are overjoyed and so thankful to our families for all of their love and support during this wonderful time in our lives,” the two said in a statement, according to Fox.
While neither has mentioned the engagement on social media as of Thursday night, Earhardt did post a picture to Instagram on Christmas of herself and Hannity with some family members.
Following the announcement, congratulatory messages flowed in from the likes of former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz—“Two wonderful people!” he wrote on X—and Florida congressman and incoming National Security Adviser Michael Waltz.
Earhardt and Hannity had both been married before (Earhardt twice), and have one and two children, respectively, from those marriages.
Hannity and his first wife announced in 2020 that they had been divorced since 2019. Earhardt and ex-husband Will Proctor finalized their divorce the same year. Also in 2019, Hannity and Earhardt showed up together at the Trump National Golf Course in New Jersey as wedding guests of then-Fox News weekend host Pete Hegseth, Vanity Fair reported.
According to Fox, the couple “still get along well” with their former spouses.
“We actually made them aware this was happening ahead of time,” they told Fox.
Hannity proposed to Earhardt “at their home church,” Fox noted, though it’s unclear if this occurred in Florida, where Hannity is based, or New York, where Earhardt works out of.
Having bonded over their faith, the proposal at that location was the “perfect place,” the couple said, per Fox. They reportedly met with their minister afterwards.
In 2019, when Earhardt interviewed Hannity on her Fox Nation show Ainsley’s Bible Study, he explained that although he had left the Catholic Church due to “institutionalized corruption,” his Christian faith had “gotten stronger.”
Hannity would not have been able to marry for a second time in the Catholic Church.
Earlier this year, after months of teasing the move, Hannity said he was broadcasting his radio show from Florida, after many years stationed in New York.
In April 2021, the Fox host bought a $5.3 million mansion just a short drive from Mar-a-Lago, pal Donald Trump’s Florida golf club and residence.