Ainsley Earhardt and Sean Hannity’s Wedding: Their Relationship Timeline
The Fox News hosts marry on Oct. 24, nearly two years after a Christmas proposal at their Florida church. How they got here, who they were married to before and why they still live in two states.
- Ainsley Earhardt and Sean Hannity get married Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, nearly two years after he proposed at their church in Florida over Christmas 2024.
- They celebrated the night before at Mar-a-Lago with family, Fox News colleagues and President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump.
- Both were married before, and since 2024 they have lived in two states: she hosts Fox & Friends from New York, he broadcasts from Florida.
Ainsley Earhardt, 50, and Sean Hannity, 64, the Fox News hosts who kept their relationship out of public view for years, are getting married on Saturday, Oct. 24. The ceremony is at a separate location the couple has not made public.
On Friday night, they held a pre-wedding dinner at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, with their families and much of the Fox News lineup.
When are Ainsley Earhardt and Sean Hannity getting married?
Today. The celebration on Oct. 23 brought together Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott, Earhardt’s Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade and Lawrence Jones, and friends from outside the network, including Stephen A. Smith, Lee Greenwood and Jillian Michaels.
To celebrate this beautiful season of our lives surrounded by the people we love most is truly a dream come true.
Ainsley Earhardt, in a statement released by Fox News
Trump and the first lady attended the dinner, as did Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with his wife, Cheryl Hines. Trump is not expected at the ceremony itself, CNN reported.
Hannity said he has had “a personal relationship with President Trump for over 30 years,” and that the couple “paid fair market value for the venue.”
How long have Ainsley Earhardt and Sean Hannity been together?
About six years. Reports that they were dating first surfaced in 2020, shortly after Hannity’s divorce became public. Neither confirmed the relationship until the engagement, which Fox News announced on Dec. 26, 2024.
Hannity proposed over Christmas at the Florida church they attend. Earhardt told Us Weekly she thought they were headed to a meeting about a home renovation when he “walked up to the altar, got down on his knee and pulled out this beautiful ring.”
| When | What happened |
|---|---|
| 1993 | Hannity marries Jill Rhodes, whom he met in Huntsville, Alabama |
| 1996 | Hannity joins Fox News on the day the channel launches |
| 2005 | Earhardt marries Kevin McKinney; they divorce in 2009 |
| 2007 | Earhardt joins Fox News |
| 2012 | Earhardt marries Will Proctor, a former Clemson quarterback; they have a daughter, Hayden |
| 2016 | Earhardt becomes a Fox & Friends co-host |
| 2019 | Both marriages end; Hannity and Rhodes announce their divorce in June 2020 |
| 2020 | Reports that they are dating first surface |
| January 2024 | Hannity moves to Florida and starts broadcasting from there |
| Christmas 2024 | The proposal, at their church in Florida |
| Oct. 23, 2026 | Pre-wedding dinner at Mar-a-Lago |
| Oct. 24, 2026 | The wedding |
“We’re not really into big social scene stuff,” Hannity said on The Katie Miller Podcast on March 3. “We like family dinners, we like to be with our kids and just have downtime.” Asked about the proposal, he said the only thing on his mind was, “What if she says no?”
What is the age difference between Ainsley Earhardt and Sean Hannity?
Almost 15 years. Hannity was born on Dec. 30, 1961, and turns 65 in December. Earhardt was born on Sept. 20, 1976, and turned 50 last month.
Were Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt married before?
Yes, both. Hannity was married to Jill Rhodes, a former Huntsville Times columnist, for more than two decades. They have two children in their 20s, a son and a daughter, Merri. In June 2020, the couple said they had divorced the year before, after separating years earlier.
Earhardt has been married twice: to Kevin McKinney, from 2005 to 2009, and to Will Proctor, from 2012 to 2019. She and Proctor share their daughter, Hayden.
When the engagement was announced, the couple said both of them “still get along well” with their former spouses, and that they told them before the news went public. Earhardt described her co-parenting with Proctor as something that “works seamlessly.”
Do Ainsley Earhardt and Sean Hannity live together?
Not so far. Hannity moved from Long Island to Florida in early 2024 and hosts both his Fox News show and his radio show from there. Earhardt co-hosts Fox & Friends live from New York at 6 a.m. ET, and has said she is staying in the city, where her daughter goes to school.
What they do is weekends. Earhardt told the Daily Mail in July 2025 that she and her daughter fly to Florida after school on Fridays. “It’s not conventional,” she said. “We live on opposite ends of the East Coast, but when you love someone, you make it work.”
“We never missed a weekend since we started dating,” Hannity said in March. Neither has said whether that changes after the wedding.
Couples who stay together in two homes are more common than it sounds, and there is a name for it: living apart together.
Holland Taylor and Sarah Paulson keep separate homes in Los Angeles, and Taylor has explained why. Ina Garten has talked about the four months she and Jeffrey lived apart in the 1970s.
Another couple who met at work and married late: Téa Leoni and Tim Daly, the stars of NBC’s “Newlyweds”. More celebrity couples and real-life relationship questions in Love & Relationships.
— Bruno Monteiro
Sources: Fox News (Brian Flood), statements from Ainsley Earhardt and Sean Hannity (Oct. 23, 2026, and Dec. 26, 2024); CNN (Brian Stelter); The Katie Miller Podcast, Episode 29 (March 3, 2026); Us Weekly (Mike Vulpo); TV Insider (Alyssa Norwin); Page Six (Eric Todisco); Daily Mail, July 2025, via TV Insider. Photos: Fox News, The Katie Miller Podcast.
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