Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt are officially engaged after Hannity popped the question at church during Christmas.
The newly engaged couple said they “couldn’t be happier” in an announcement Thursday on Fox News Channel, taking their relationship to the next level years after their romance was revealed by DailyMail.com.
“We are overjoyed and so grateful to our families for all their love and support during this wonderful time in our lives,” said Earhardt and Hannity.
The couple informed their ex-spouses in advance of their announcement, stating that “everyone supports each other.”
They kept the details of the proposal private, except to say that he proposed in their “home church” and that it was the “perfect place” as they bonded over their deep faith and had “put God first in their relationship’.
Hannity, who turns 63 on Monday, lives in Florida while Earhardt, 48, remains in New York, but the couple has made their long-distance relationship work with weekend getaways. This will remain the case for some time to come.
‘With mutual respect for each other’s careers, both Hannity and Earhardt have long-term agreements to remain at Fox News Media, where Earhardt will continue to co-host New York’s ‘Fox & Friends’ while the primetime star will continue to host his eponymous show ‘Hannity ‘ from Florida,’ the channel said.
The romance between the Fox News hosts had been rumored for years, but the two repeatedly declined to comment on the speculation until DailyMail.com broke the news of their relationship in 2023.
Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt got engaged at Christmas in the church of their beloved hometown. The couple told Fox News it was the “perfect place” to pop the question
The couple has kept the details of the proposal private, except to say that he proposed at their “home church” and that it was the “perfect place” as they have bonded over their deep faith and “putting God first put into their relationship’. ‘
Earhardt travels to Hannity’s home in Florida on weekends but must maintain a base in New York where Fox & Friends is filmed, an insider told DailyMail.com
Hannity’s divorce from wife Jill Rhodes, with whom he shares two children, was first reported in 2020. They split in 2015 but managed to keep it quiet.
Meanwhile, Earhardt and her second husband Will Proctor separated in 2018 and their divorce was finalized in 2019.
In Thursday’s announcement, the couple stated that they are “still getting along” with their exes, and that Earhardt and her former husband continue to amicably raise their daughter.
“We informed them in advance that this was happening,” the couple said.
DailyMail.com confirmed the couple’s budding romance in April 2023 with exclusive photos of the couple arm-in-arm at a Waffle House in South Carolina and at an oyster festival on Long Island, New York.
“They started out as best friends and the relationship evolved over time,” a source close to the couple told us.
They then began spending time as a blended family with Earhardt’s now 9-year-old daughter Hayden — the product of her marriage to former Clemson quarterback Proctor — giving them her full blessing.
And Hannity’s new $23.5 million home, a Spanish-style home with eight bedrooms and 10.5 bathrooms on a barrier island near Palm Beach, Florida, will be a perfect place for the family.
Hannity’s $23.5 million home in Palm Beach, Florida, where he announced earlier this year that he would broadcast his radio show, The Sean Hannity Show
Earhardt poses with her now fiancé in 2018, showing off her New York Times best-selling memoir The Light Within Me, which focuses on her spiritual journey – sources say the couple has a deep bond over their shared religious values
There was speculation that Hannity and Earhardt were dating when they were spotted together at the Colony Palm Beach hotel in February 2023.
Earhardt began dating Hannity, who had divorced Jill Rhodes, his wife of 29 years, around the same time of her divorce from Clemson quarterback Will Proctor in 2019.
Set on almost two hectares of land, it features a swimming pool that sparkles at night, a jetty, a balcony and an observation deck at roof level.
It also has a bar, wine room, elevator and fireplace.
Hannity announced earlier this year that he would broadcast his radio show, The Sean Hannity Show, from his new home in the Sunshine State, which attracted him because of its conservative political climate.
“We are now beginning our first deployment from my new home, which is in the free state of Florida,” he said in January 2024.
‘I’m gone. I’m done. I’m done. New York, New York, goodbye. Florida, Florida, if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. But it’s great to be here.’
Earhardt is a regular visitor, but must maintain a base in New York where Fox & Friends is filmed.
A source close to the couple told DailyMail.com: ‘They had only seen each other at the weekend as Ainsley lived in town and Sean was on Long Island.
“So the only difference now is that they travel back and forth to Long Island by plane instead of by car.”
Earhardt has been married twice. She tied the knot with Kevin McKinnon in 2005, but it was over in 2009. Three years later, she married Proctor, but when she suddenly stopped referring to him on Fox & Friends in 2019, it became clear that relationship was over.
Hannity and Rhodes, who were married for 29 years, have two children: Patrick, now 26, and Merri, 23.