FOX News host Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhart are engaged.
After years of a quiet long-distance relationship, Hannity, 62, proposed to Earhart, 48, on Christmas Day at a church in his hometown of Florida.
“We are so happy and so grateful to our family for their love and support during this wonderful time in our lives,” they told Fox News.
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Ainsley Earhart and Sean Hannity
They added that they have received blessings and support from their children and “couldn’t be happier.”
Hannity has two children, Patrick and Meri, with ex-wife Jill Rose, whom he married in 1993 and divorced in 2019.
Meanwhile, Earhart has a daughter, Hayden, with ex-husband Will Proctor. The former couple married in 2012, announced their separation in 2018, and finalized their divorce in 2019. Earhart, who is based in New York, was married to Kevin McKinney from 2005 to 2009.
The couple told Fox News that they are “still on good terms” with their ex-spouse and that they “were made aware of this happening ahead of time.”
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The newspaper said Hannity and Earhart bonded over their shared religious beliefs and said church was the “perfect place” to propose. They met with the minister immediately after their engagement.
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Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhart
Back in June 2020, a source close to Hannity and Earhart told PEOPLE that the two had been “secretly dating for years,” despite their public denials. .
“He’s very famous and very controversial, so he’s very private,” the source said at the time, “but it’s no secret that they were seeing each other. It was.”
“They’ve always been together, but privately… they’ve been together for years, not months,” the source continued.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ms. Earhart hosted the “Fox & Friends” show from a studio in the basement of Ms. Hannity’s Long Island mansion.
In October 2019, Earhart told PEOPLE that she was ready to date again and was open to having more children.
“I want to find love again and I want to have a loving relationship with Hayden one day,” she said. “But I don’t know when that will be. I know that if God wills, He will place the right person in my life, and He will do so when the time comes.” .”
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