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Jesse Watters is an American political commentator who became the host of a weekly Watters’ World show in 2017.

Biography

He was born on July 9, 1978, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, as Jesse Bailey Watters.

In 2001, Watters graduated from Trinity College with a Bachelor of Arts in history.

In 2002, Jesse joined Fox as a production assistant.

First pitch? A flop. Watters told CBN News in 2021 about his production assistant days, when someone at Fox asked him, cold, what story ideas he had and waited for an answer: “And I pitched and I bombed.”

He started to work as a correspondent for The O’Reilly Factor in 2003.

Watters worked at the talk show until 2017 when Bill O’Reilly was fired from the network.

In October 2016, Jesse was criticized for a segment of Watters’ World that he filmed in New York City’s Chinatown.

He said in a message on Twitter: ”My man-on-the-street interviews are meant to be taken as tongue-in-cheek and I regret if anyone found offense.”

He became the host of a weekly Watters’ World show in January 2017.

In March 2017, Watters aired an interview with President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One.

The discussion focused on immigration policy, plans for tax reform, jobs, and the state of the economy.

The Five

Watters became a co-host of the roundtable series The Five in April 2017. The Five is a panel talk show on Fox News Channel. During the talk show, five commentators discuss current political issues. The format of the show is inspired by The View.

Two days after joining The Five, Jesse was criticized for his comment on Ivanka Trump’s visit to Berlin. He said: ”I really liked how she was speaking into that microphone.” Watters later denied that his comment was sexual.

”During the break, we were commenting on Ivanka’s voice and how it was low and steady and resonates like a smooth jazz radio DJ,” Jesse said. The political commentator added: ”This was in no way a joke about anything else.”

From 2014 to 2019, Jesse appeared in 9 episodes of the talk show Outnumbered.

From 2019 to 2020, Watters appeared in 16 episodes of Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Eight o’clock, finally

In January 2022, Fox put him in charge of a weeknight hour at 7 p.m. called Jesse Watters Primetime.

He stayed on The Five at 5 p.m. as well.

April 2023 shook everything.

Fox fired Tucker Carlson that month, shortly after its parent company settled the Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit, and for about nine weeks a rotation of guest hosts filled 8 p.m.

AP reported that Carlson averaged 3.25 million viewers in first three months of 2023, and that guest hosts mostly reached under 2 million (Associated Press, 2023).

Watters, one hour earlier, had a number the fill-ins never touched. Reuters wrote that, by Fox’s count, his show had more than 2.6 million viewers in 2023, 270,000 of them in the 25 to 54 age group, the best result for a 7 p.m. show in cable news history (Reuters, 2023).

On June 26, 2023, Fox announced the move, with a start date of July 17.

Laura Ingraham shifted to 7 p.m., which made her show his lead-in (the program right before his, which hands its audience over).

Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott named all four evening hosts in a statement:

“The unique perspectives of Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity, and Greg Gutfeld will ensure our viewers have access to unrivaled coverage from our best-in-class team for years to come.”

Books

Two books came out in these years.

How I Saved the World, from Broadside Books on July 6, 2021, debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times nonfiction list, and Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe followed on March 19, 2024, also a No. 1 bestseller.

On 2024 book tour he stopped at LBI Book Swap in Beach Haven, New Jersey, on April 20 (Fox News, 2024), a shore town where he had a beach house until about a year before.

Wife

In 2009, Watters married Noelle Inguagiato, a former host of a fashion segment ”iMag Style” produced by Fox. The two first met while they were working at Fox. ”When I come home, it’s not Watters World, it’s my wife’s world,” Watters said in a 2015 interview with Adweek.

Emma is 14 years younger than her husband, and members of Trump family were guests at the wedding.

On the April 11 episode of The Five, Watters told his co-hosts how he got Emma into his car:

“When I was trying to get [my wife Emma] to date me, first thing I did, uh, I let the air out of her tires,” he said. “She couldn’t go anywhere, she needed a lift.” (Salon, 2022) He added, in his defense: “It has a happy ending.”

Backlash online was loud, and Watters vanished from air for about a week, which, yeah, did not help.

On his return he told viewers of The Five, “I threw my back out.” He later said the tire story was a joke, The Independent reported (The Independent, 2022).

Noelle filed for divorce in October 2017, after learning that Watters had an affair with Emma DiGiovine.

Jesse actually admitted to cheating on Noelle with associate producer DiGiovine and notified his Human Resources department of the relationship. Later, Emma was transferred to work for The Ingraham Angle — a Fox talk show that features Laura Ingraham.

Noelle and Jesse’s divorce was finalized in March 2019.

Later, it was reported that Inguagiato is demanding that Watters pay for her legal fees.

Second Marriage

In December 2019, Jesse Watters married Emma DiGiovine.

Jesse announced his engagement to DiGiovine in August 2019 on Twitter:

”Emma and I would like to announce our engagement!” Watters added: ”Thanks to all of our family and friends who’ve shown us so much love.” Donald Trump retweeted his post and added: ”Jesse & Emma, Great News.”

Note – from 2012 to 2014, DiGiovine was a fit model with MSA Models. Emma graduated from Fairfield University in 2014. In 2015, she started to work at Fox News as a production assistant with the talk show Stossel (hosted by John Stossel). In June 2016, Emma became Watters’ associate producer.

Days before the 2024 election, Watters said that if he found out Emma had secretly voted for Kamala Harris, it would be “D-Day” for their marriage.

In October 2026 he went further, in a discussion about wives in high office. “If she’s VP or she’s running for president, I couldn’t handle it for many reasons,” he said, and his first reason was short: “One, I’d miss her too much.”

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Children

Watters has twin daughters named Ellie and Sophie with his first wife.

With his second wife, Jesse has a son named Jesse Bailey Watters Jr (b. 2021).

On April 17, 2023, Jesse and Emma welcomed daughter Georgina, and Watters announced it online: “Georgina (“Gigi”) Post Watters […] welcome to the world!” (People, 2023)

Two years earlier, for his son, he wrote: “Emma and I are thrilled to welcome Jesse Bailey Watters, Jr. into our world.”

Height

Watters is 6′ (1.83 m) tall.

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Quotes

”When I’m in the studio, we cover the news. But no one says the news has to be boring.”

”It’s not dead, that’s because it’s plastic.”

”I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.”

Jesse Watters Net Worth & Salary

So, how much is Jesse Watters worth? Watters earned most of his wealth from serving as the co-host of The Five and as the host of Watters’ World on FOX News Channel. Therefore, television program host Jesse Watters has an estimated net worth of $12 million.

Jesse Watters’ annual salary at FOX is $5 million.

In 2022, Jesse became the host of Jesse Watters Primetime.

He’s the author of ”How I Saved the World.” The book is a #1 The New York Times Best Seller, and it has 12k ratings on Amazon.

Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe was released in March 2024.

Beach house in, beach house out

In April 2021 Watters bought a beach house in Beach Haven, on Long Beach Island, for $1.1 million. He asked $1.85 million for it in December 2022 and sold it in March 2023 for $1.65 million.

Early 2023 brought a bigger purchase.

Watters and Emma left a Manhattan rental for Bernardsville, New Jersey, where they paid $2.76 million for a five-bedroom mansion of 10,296 square feet on 5.6 private acres of Bernardsville Mountain.

Year	Payday, deal or estimate	Amount
2021	Beach Haven house bought	$1.1 million
2022	Beach Haven house put up for sale	$1.85 million price
2023	Bernardsville mansion bought	$2.76 million
2023	Beach Haven house sold	$1.65 million
2024	Net worth estimate	$10 million
2026	Fox salary	$5 million a year
2026	Net worth estimate	$12 million

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