JESSE WATTERS AND THE FOX NEWS AFFAIR THAT BROKE HIS FAMILY

Watters bragged about sabotaging DiGiovine’s car in order to romance the former ballerina and Fox News producer; the couple married in 2019 and have 2 children together

Fox News conservative commentator Jesse Watters shocked no one when he continued his attacks on former US vice-president Kamala Harris, as well as her husband, Doug Emhoff, in a recent episode of Jesse Watters Primetime. Reacting to photographs released by the New York Post of the couple shopping in Westwood, Los Angeles, he quipped, “What kind of man gets up in the morning and says, ‘I’m going to go grocery shopping with my wife’?”

Jesse Watters hosting Jesse Watters Primetime on the Fox News Channel last month. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

The comment was met with vitriol from netizens, including ex-Republican politician Joe Walsh, who asserted, “Only a very weak, insecure man would ask a question like that.” Elsewhere on social media, Watters’ own love life was brought into question, particularly his controversial relationship with second wife, Emma, with whom he attended Donald Trump’s inauguration last month.

What do we know about Emma DiGiovine, who is 14 years her husband’s junior?

What does Emma DiGiovine do for work?

Emma DiGiovine previously worked at Fox News alongside her husband, Jesse Watters. Photo: @emmawatters__/Instagram

According to Heavy, Emma DiGiovine graduated from Fairfield University, Connecticut, where she studied journalism. During her college years, she briefly worked as a model. She was also part of Fairfield’s dance ensemble and student association, where she served as director of marketing. After a spell as an intern with TV network Showtime she landed a job at Fox News as an associate producer, working on the show Watters’ World.

According to celebrity-news channel Nicki Swift, the New Jersey native is a trained ballerina and is involved with the non-profit organisation Hope Through Education, for economically disadvantaged children, as an honorary board member. She previously ran a short-lived lifestyle blog.

With Emma, Jesse Watters cheated on his first wife

Watters and DiGiovine married the same year he divorced his first wife, Noelle Inguagiato. Photo: @emmawatters__/Instagram

Watters’ first wife, Noelle Inguagiato, also worked at Fox, in the marketing department, per The List. After the couple welcomed their twin girls in 2011, she quit her job. Later, Watters began an affair with DiGiovine. During an episode of The Five, he recalled trying to court her by letting the air out of her car tyres so he could offer her a lift.

Jesse Watters and his wife, Emma DiGiovine, are friends of US President Donald Trump. Photo: @emmawatters__/Instagram

A month after Inguagiato filed for divorce, in October 2017, per the New York Daily News, Watters came clean about his affair with DiGiovine to Fox’s HR department. DiGiovine was then transferred to The Ingraham Angle show. She left Fox in 2018, per Heavy.

She’s a mother

Jesse Watters has two children with his second wife, Emma DiGiovine. Photo: @emmawatters__/Instagram

According to The List, Watters and DiGiovine became engaged in August 2019, just months after his divorce was finalised. They married in December that year in Florida, with Donald Trump Jr, his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle, Eric Trump and Lara Trump in attendance. The couple had a son, Jesse Bailey, in 2021 and a daughter, Georgina Post, in 2023.