Fox Information hosts Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt are engaged.
After years of quietly courting lengthy distance, Hannity, 62, proposed to Earhardt, 48, on Christmas Day at a church in his house state of Florida.
“We’re overjoyed and so grateful to our households for all of their love and assist throughout this glorious time in our lives,” the pair told Fox News.
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The 2 added that they’d the blessing and assist from their youngsters, who “could not be happier.”
Hannity shares two youngsters, Patrick and Merri, with ex-wife Jill Rhodes, whom he wed in 1993 and divorced from in 2019.
In the meantime, Earhardt has a daughter, Hayden, with ex-husband Will Proctor. The previous couple acquired married in 2012, introduced their separation in 2018 and finalized their divorce in 2019. Earhardt, who relies in New York, was additionally beforehand married to Kevin McKinney from 2005 to 2009.
The couple instructed Fox Information that they “nonetheless get alongside properly” with their ex-spouses and that they “made them conscious this was occurring forward of time.”
Hannity and Earhardt mentioned they bonded over their shared spiritual beliefs, and described the church as “the right place” to suggest, in line with the outlet. They met with their minister shortly after the engagement.
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Again in June 2020, a supply in Hannity and Earhardt’s circle instructed PEOPLE that they’d been “been seeing one another very secretively for years,” regardless of the pair publicly denying so.
“He is very personal as a result of he is very well-known and he is very controversial,” the supply mentioned on the time, “nevertheless it’s been an open secret that they’ve been seeing one another.”
“They’re collectively on a regular basis, however in personal … for years, not simply months,” the supply continued.
In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Earhardt hosted her Fox & Associates program from a studio within the basement of Hannity’s Lengthy Island mansion.
In October 2019, Earhardt instructed PEOPLE she was able to date once more and open to having extra children.
“I’d love to seek out love once more and I need to display a loving relationship for Hayden sooner or later,” she mentioned. “However I am unsure when that can be. I do know that God will put the appropriate man in my life if that is his will and he’ll do it in his time.”
