Ainsley Earhardt and Sean Hannity kept their romance a secret for years

News that Ainsley Earhardt and Sean Hannity were an item surfaced in a June 2020 Vanity Fair report. While juicy in and of itself, the news was heightened by the revelation the TV hosts had been seeing each other for “quite some time.” But Earhardt and Hannity kept their romance to themselves, even among their inner groups, though they weren’t exactly hiding it. “I knew they were involved. I saw it when we were all together,” a friend of Hannity’s said.

According to Vanity Fair, which spoke with four Fox News employees, Earhardt and Hannity first stepped out publicly as a couple at Pete Hegseth and Jennifer Rauchet’s wedding in August 2019. “Hannity emerged from the chopper with Ainsley Earhardt, and they made this grand entrance together,” a former executive said. “People were like, Wow, okay.” But another insider claims they had been together for a lot longer. “[They have] been seeing each other very secretively for years,” the source told People that same June.

By the time the media caught wind of the romance, Earhardt was already using Hannity’s Long Island home as a remote studio for “Fox & Friends” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, both denied the relationship at the time. Earhardt was more assertive in her denial. “I am not dating anyone,” she told Vanity Fair. Hannity, on the other hand, was more evasive. “I do not discuss my personal life in public,” he said.