Watters Biography
Jesse Watters born Jesse Bailey Watters, is a Fox News personality and conservative political analyst. He began his career on The O’Reilly Factor, where he became well-known for his candid interviews with strangers. Watters’ World, which debuted as its own show in 2015, went weekly in January 2017 and co-hosted the roundtable series The Five in April 2017. In January 2022, he launched his own show, Jesse Watters Primetime.
Watters Age
Jesse is 46 years old as of 9 July 2024. He was born on 9 July 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Watters Wife and Children
Watters married Noelle Inguagiato in 2009 and they had twin girls. After Watters came clean about having an affair with Emma DiGiovine, a producer on his program who was around 26 at the time, Noelle filed for divorce in 2018. According to Watters, she started dating DiGiovine by asking him for a ride by releasing the air from her car’s tires.
The divorce between Inguagiato and Watters was finalized in March 2019. In August 2019, Watters and DiGiovine announced their engagement, and in December of the same year, they were married. Together, they gave birth to a son in 2021 and a daughter in April 2023.
Jesse Watters Family (Parents and Sibling)
He is the son of teacher Stephen Hapgood Watters and child psychologist Anne Purvis, who is the daughter of Better Homes and Gardens magazine editor Morton Bailey, Jr. His maternal great-grandfathers were Morton S. Bailey, a lawyer, politician, and Colorado state senator, and Morton Bailey, proprietor of The Saturday Evening Post.
His paternal grandpa was Franklin Benjamin Watters, a cardiologist and professor at the University of Connecticut Medical Dental School. Watters is the nephew of Democratic state senator David H. Watters of New Hampshire. His father’s side of the family is Irish. Watters bears the name of Jesse Andrew Burnett, an associate chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court and the great-grandfather of his mother.
Watters Height and Weight
Jesse stands at a height of 6 feet 4 inches or 195 cm and weighs 75 kgs or 165lbs.
Watters Career
Watters started working as a production assistant at Fox News in New York City after graduating from Trinity College in Hartford. After joining The O’Reilly Factor’s production team in 2003, Watters started making on-air appearances in O’Reilly’s show segments in 2004.
Watters made his debut on the Fox News Channel program Outnumbered on June 11, 2014, and subsequently made sporadic appearances as a guest co-host. Watters’ World, his own monthly show on Fox News, made its premiere on November 20, 2015. Watters has stated, despite being labeled a “ambush journalist,” “I try to make it fun for the person I am interviewing.” For the most part, we always leave the interview smiling. And seeing the video again and thinking, “Oh my gosh, what just happened?” is always entertaining. Watters’ World shifted to a weekly schedule in January 2017, broadcasting on Saturdays at 8 p.m. ET.
Watters joined The Five, a roundtable series, as a co-host in April 2017. Watters’ next book, How I Saved the World, was announced by HarperCollins in April 2021 and released on July 6. For the week ending July 10, 2021, the book was the top-selling nonfiction book in The New York Times.
On January 10, 2022, it was revealed that Watters will take over as the permanent host of a new primetime program called Jesse Watters Primetime. The show launched on January 24, 2022, after Watters had previously served as one of several rotating fill-in hosts in the network’s 7 p.m. time slot.
Watters is still a co-host of the ongoing show The Five, although his World program terminated on January 15, 2022. Following the termination of Tucker Carlson, a contentious fellow conservative commentator, Fox News appointed Watters as the network’s permanent anchor of its 8 p.m. EST hour in June 2023.
In January 2024, he offered his audience the unsupported theory that the connection between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, a player for the Kansas City Chiefs, was a “psyop” orchestrated by the US Department of Defense. He unjustly asserted in July 2024 that he “heard the scientists say the other day that when a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman.”