Watters’ Bio
Jesse Watters is a Fox News host and conservative political analyst from the United States. He got notoriety for his man-on-the-street interviews and started his career with Bill O’Reilly on The O’Reilly Factor. He co-hosted the roundtable series The Five in April 2017 and Watters’ World, which debuted as a stand-alone program in 2015, went weekly in January 2017. Watters started hosting his own show, Jesse Watters Primetime, on Fox News in January 2022.
How old is Watters?
Born Jesse Bailey Watters, the Fox News host is 47 years old as of 9 July 2025. He was born on 9 July 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Watters’ Family
He is the son of teacher Stephen Hapgood Watters and child psychologist Anne Purvis, who is the daughter of Better Homes and Gardens magazine owner Morton Bailey, Jr. His maternal great-great-grandfather was Morton S. Bailey (1855–1922), a lawyer, politician, state senator, and district judge in Colorado who later served as an Associate Justice on the Colorado Supreme Court in Denver, Colorado, the state capital. His maternal great-great-grandfather was also Morton Bailey, publisher of the well-known, long-running magazine The Saturday Evening Post.
Franklin Benjamin Watters, Watters’ paternal grandpa, was a professor and cardiologist. He is the nephew of state senator David H. Watters of New Hampshire and the cousin of ballet dancer Harper Watters. Watters is named after his mother’s great-grandfather, Jesse Andrew Burnett, and has Irish heritage.
What happened with Watters’ first wife?
In 2009, he wed Noelle Inguagiato, and the couple has twin daughters. Following Watters’ admission of an affair with Emma DiGiovine, a producer on his show, Inguagiato filed for divorce in 2018. According to Watters, he initially showed interest in dating DiGiovine by releasing air from her car’s tires so she would approach him for a ride. The divorce between Inguagiato and Watters was finalized in March 2019. In August 2019, Watters declared his engagement to DiGiovine, and the two were married in December of the same year. They are parents of a daughter born in 2023 and a son born in 2021.
What is Watters’ salary at Fox?
Watters is thought to earn $5 million annually. Although such figures aren’t made public, it appears reasonable to assume that he hosts two Fox News broadcasts.
Is Watters Catholic or protestant
Watters identifies as Catholic. He has mentioned his faith in a number of public remarks and was brought up in a Catholic home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His upbringing and ideals are clear in his commentary, even if he doesn’t often go into great depth about his religious views on broadcast.
Watters’ beliefs influence his conservative outlook, often discussing God in relation to America’s Judeo-Christian heritage. He laments the erosion of traditional values, including the attack on gender roles and the traditional family. He has also maintained that excluding religion or God from public life leads to social disintegration.
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, meanwhile, is described as a “ambush journalist.” 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 claimed in July 2024 to have “heard the scientists say the other day that when a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman.”