Ainsley Earhardt Biography
Ainsley Earhardt is an American conservative television personality and author who co-hosts FOX News Channel’s (FNC) FOX & Friends (weekdays 6-9 AM/ET) with Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade.
How old is Ainsley Earhardt? – Age
She is 45 years old as of 20 September 2021. She was born in 1976 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States.
Ainsley Earhardt Family – Education
As a child, Earhardt moved with her family to the Foxcroft neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina. Sharon Elementary School was where she went. When Earhardt was in elementary school, her family relocated to the Columbia, South Carolina, area, and she graduated from Spring Valley High School in 1995. Earhardt attended Florida State University after high school before transferring to the University of South Carolina, where she earned a B.A. in journalism.
Ainsley Earhardt Wife
Earhardt’s first marriage, in April 2005, to Kevin McKinney, ended in divorce in 2009. Earhardt married former Clemson University quarterback Will Proctor in October 2012. They have a single child. Proctor filed for divorce in October 2018 after Earhardt announced their divorce amid allegations of infidelity. In 2019, they divorced. According to Vanity Fair, she began dating Fox News personality Sean Hannity in August 2019. The two met as guests at a wedding at Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Ainsley Earhardt Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $6 Million.
Ainsley Earhardt Salary
When compared to CNN, ABC, CBS, and other national news organizations, Fox News anchors earn the most. The average annual salary for a FOX news anchor is $75,000, or $36 per hour. Fox news anchor salaries are higher than the national average of $58 thousand for all news anchors.
Ainsley Earhardt House
She is so private and has not revealed her home location.
Ainsley Earhardt Fox News
She has appeared on Hannity with her own segment, “Ainsley Across America,” as well as Fox and Friends Weekend. In the first eight months of his presidency, President Trump tweeted about the show more than 100 times. She falsely claimed in 2017 that 5.7 million illegal immigrants may have voted in the 2008 election.
After The New York Times revealed Donald Trump’s “deep financial distress” between 1985 and 1994, during which he lost more money than almost any other American taxpayer, Earhardt praised Trump in May 2019. All the things he’s accomplished in his life, she said, are quite impressive. It’s far beyond what most of us could ever hope to achieve. During Trump’s presidency, Earhardt expressed deep mistrust of the intelligence community and advanced “deep state” conspiracy theories.
Ainsley Earhardt Career
Before graduating from the University of South Carolina, Earhardt worked as a reporter for WLTX, the local CBS station in Columbia, South Carolina. She was the morning and noon anchor from 2000 to 2004. She traveled to New York City after the September 11 attacks to cover South Carolina middle school students who raised nearly $500,000 for firefighters to purchase a new fire truck to replace one lost at the World Trade Center site.
Earhardt relocated to San Antonio, Texas, in 2005, to anchor the weekday morning and noon newscasts at KENS-TV.She ran the Austin half-marathon, skydived with the United States Army’s Golden Knights, and flew in an F-16 with the United States Air Force Thunderbirds while living in Texas. She is the author of two children’s books, Take Heart, My Child, and Through Your Eyes, as well as a memoir, The Light Within Me.