Good morning, sunshine! On Monday, February 29, Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt officially changed former cohost Elisabeth Hasselbeck on the community’s morning show, Fox & Friends. Before Earhardt’s long-awaited dream gig kicked off, Us Weekly sat down with the up-and-coming TV persona at Fox News’ headquarters in NYC to discuss her new gig and extra.
“I discovered around the similar time each else did,” the Columbia, South Carolina, native tells Us in her Southern drawl. “I was so, truly just so grateful. I just felt very blessed. I used to be sitting in [Fox News Chief] Rogers Ailes‘ place of work when he advised me I used to be getting the task — and he has a nook office on this building overlooking sixth Avenue, the Avenue of the Americas — and I believed, ‘This is the American Dream.’ I walked through that entrance door almost 10 years ago and wasn’t even sure if I used to be getting the activity. And now, here I am being named the morning anchor.”
Earhardt replaces outgoing host Hasselbeck, who tearfully mentioned good-bye in January. “I hated to look Elisabeth depart Fox as a result of she’s a just right buddy of mine, however what a good chance,” her replacement says. “I’ve worked so arduous for this and wanted this process for goodbye.” Former View host Hasselbeck, alternatively, used to be extremely encouraging all the way through the interview procedure.
“We talked the night prior to I needed to pass and meet with Roger, and I known as her and just said, ‘Is there any recommendation?'” Earhardt tells Us. “She said, ‘I wish you the entire best possible and I do know you’ll do nice in this position if he does make a choice you.'”
And Ailes did hire her. “Then we talked on the telephone. … She told me what her routine was once, what her laptop work used to be like, studying the newspaper articles, prepping for the show every morning,” Earhardt says.
The running mother’s ascent comes at what some would see as an inopportune time — she welcomed her first kid, Hayden, along with her husband Will Proctor in November — however Earhardt says that’s now not the case at all.
“I’ve worked so hard to get to this place that I will be able to do the whole lot to make it work,” she tells Us. “I have a truly good supportive circle of relatives unit at house. We’re all gonna make this paintings and make it a good fortune . . . For me, to get my dream process, that is a gift I will be able to give my daughter. We’re in this in combination. It’ll be fun when she grows up when we now have particular visitors on the display. She can come along!”
Earhardt inherited her hard paintings ethic from her folks. “My dad labored three jobs to position us via college,” she tells Us. “It’s just truly neat now that I’m a guardian to see what we do for our children. It’s now not as regards to us. It’s about representing America, representing the viewers. It’s representing the American Dream.”
After just about twenty years of operating in information, Earhardt says she couldn’t imagine she’s finally arrived. “I labored actually past due, long hours. Worked on the weekends. I used to be the beat reporter in Richland County, which used to be the county I grew up in, like covering laborious news stories,” she remembers to Us of her first gig. Earhardt got here to Fox News just about 10 years in the past, where she started on the dreaded overnight and weekend shifts. Joining the TV persona in her ascent have been one of the crucial cameramen and behind-the-scenes folks who help in making the inside track happen day by day.
“We spent Christmas Eves together in the hallway consuming turkey,” she tells Us. “The complete staff, the entire digicam guys, all the degree administrators, everyone behind the scenes. We’ve all been in it in combination.” (According to Nielsen, Fox & Friends gained a 24 % boost compared to 2015’s reasonable for Earhardt’s giant debut on Monday, February 29.)
The cohost, who’s just getting began, tells audience that she’ll be on best of her game; in fact, she’ll be getting an additional hour of sleep every night because of her new gig. “It’s an hour later than what I’m used to,” she says of her warning sign. “I used to anchor at five or six within the morning. So I in fact have an hour more sleep each evening.”
Watch Hasselbeck’s departure above.
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