Who is Ainsley Earhardt? Flash Uganda Media looks at his biography, age, wife, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, Wayne Earhardt, Dale Elise Giles Earhardt, Trenton Graham Earhardt, Elise Giles Earhardt, Kevin McKinney, Will Proctor, the early life and education of an American author, producer and television host.
Ainsley Earhardt is an American author, producer and television host.
Alongside Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, she co-hosts FOX & Friends on FOX News Channel (FNC) on weekdays from 6 to 9 AM/ET.
Earnhardt previously co-hosted Fox & Friends First (weekdays, 5–6 AM/ET).
Her credits as a writer and producer include; Fox and Friends (1998), Rick & Bubba Show (2018), and Christmas in the Rockies (2020).
Take Heart, My Child and Through Your Eyes are two of the best-selling children’s books written by Ainsley Earhardt.
Net Worth
The estimated net worth of Ainsley Earhardt is more than $6 million.
Her astounding $6 million USD yearly salary at Fox News as of 2022 made her one of the network’s highest-paid female personalities.
Her possessions consist of one luxury yacht, five cars, and six real estate properties.
She also has cash reserves of more than $6 million in her assets portfolio.
Eight stocks worth $8 million, belonging to companies like Walmart, Amazon, ExxonMobil, AT&T, FedEx, and Microsoft, make up her investment portfolio as well.
Early Life and Education
Ainsley Earhardt, whose real name is Ainsley Hayden Earhardt was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA on September 20, 1976.
Wayne Earhardt and Dale Elise Giles Earhardt are her parents. She has two siblings; her younger brother, Trenton Graham Earhardt born in 1982, and Elise Giles Earhardt her older sister.
By faith, she is a Christian.
When Ainsley Earhardt was a little child, her family relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina around the Foxcroft neighbourhood.
While there, she attended Sharon Elementary School. They then moved to the Columbia, South Carolina, area.
In 1995, she received a high school certificate from Columbia, South Carolina’s Spring Valley High School.
Ainsley Earhardt was initially awarded a leadership and academic scholarship to attend Florida State University (FSU), where she majored in biology and served the student body as a senator in student government.
She later opted to pursue a journalism degree and subsequently transferred to the University of South Carolina (USC).
She attended USC on a scholarship and earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in journalism degree there.
Inducted into four honour societies, she was elected to the University’s Homecoming Court and received the Caroliniana Creed Award for her character, leadership and personality.
She worked in a Hallmark store for her first job.
Family and Relationships
In April 2005, Ainsley Earhardt wed Kevin McKinney; the couple later divorced in 2009.
Earnhardt then got married to Will Proctor, a former starting quarterback at Clemson University and professional football player, on October 25, 2012.
On November 6, 2015, Hayden Dubose Proctor, their daughter, was born.
Days before their sixth wedding anniversary, on October 10, 2018, Ainsley filed for divorce from her husband Will Proctor. In 2019, the divorce was finalised.
Earhardt and fellow Fox News personality Sean Hannity reportedly started dating in August 2019 after the two showed up together as guests at a wedding at the Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, New Jersey.
According to Vanity Fair, she was hosting her Fox & Friends show from a remote studio located in the basement of Hannity’s Long Island mansion during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Earhardt, however, disputed any romantic involvement.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Prior to receiving her degree from the University of South Carolina, Ainsley Earhardt was employed as a reporter for WLTX, the local CBS station in Columbia, South Carolina.
While at WLTX, she acted as the morning and noon news anchor from 2000 to 2004.
After the September 11 attacks, she went to New York City to report on middle school students in South Carolina who were trying to raise almost half a million dollars so that firefighters could purchase a new fire truck to replace the one that was lost at the World Trade Centre site.
Earhardt relocated to San Antonio, Texas, in 2005, where she anchored the #1-rated weekday newscasts of KENS-TV Eyewitness News at Noon and Eyewitness News This Morning, which aired from 5 AM to 7:30 AM.
Ainsley Earhardt relocated to New York City in 2007 and started a position at FOX News Channel.
She has reported on numerous breaking news stories, such as the Pope’s visit to New York City, the presidential election, the VA hospital investigation in Phoenix, Spring Break in Panama City, Florida, and many more.
She skydived with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, went skydiving with the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights, and flew an F-16 with the Air Force Academy.
She co-hosted Fox and Friends Weekend, All-American New Year’s Eve, and America’s News Headquarters. She made her Hannity debut with her own segment, “Ainsley Across America”.
She has participated in panels on Greg Gutfeld’s Red Eye and The Live Desk. Vice President Mike Pence and President Trump have also been interviewed by Earhardt.
In 2016, she was added to Fox & Friends as a co-host.
Achievements and Awards
Ainsley Earhardt received the Young Alumni Award from the University of South Carolina and was recognised as the 2007 “Outstanding Young Alumna” by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
She is a proud donor and is actively involved in raising money for the University of South Carolina’s new journalism school.
When Earhardt was the morning news anchor for WLTX-News 19, the local CBS station in Columbia, South Carolina, viewers chose her as the “Best Personality of the Year” by Columbia Metropolitan Magazine.
Earnhardt won a South Carolina Star Award for her breaking news coverage, and both the morning and noon shows she anchored at WLTX had the highest ratings.
Three children’s books, “Take Heart, My Child”, “Through Your Eyes”, “I’m So Glad You Were Born,” and a memoir, “The Light Within Me,” are written by Ainsley Earhardt.
Controversies
When Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, Earhardt defended the decision, saying, “He gets to decide who works for him.”
She lied when she asserted in 2017 that “5.7 million… illegal immigrants might have voted” in the election of 2008.
Earhardt falsely claimed in August 2018 on Fox & Friends that the United States’ victory over “communist Japan” was a turning point in the history of “America great.” Steve Doocy, her co-host, attempted to hide her error, but it quickly went viral.
Earhardt advised readers to take flights during the COVID-19 pandemic, stating that “it’s actually the safest time to fly.”
Her remarks ran counter to recommendations issued by the Centres for Disease Control. She said that Democrats and “the media” were to blame for turning the pandemic into a “political” issue.
Following the arson of the Fox Christmas tree outside its New York headquarters in December 2021, Earhardt—a devout Christian—raised eyebrows when she related the Christmas period to Hanukkah.
Her misrepresentation of the Christmas tree as a representation of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah sparked criticism on social media and news media corrections.
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