SE.“FIRST TIME EVER!” — AINSLEY EARHARDT AND FIANCÉ SEAN HANNITY CAUGHT OFF-CAMERA AT INTIMATE FOOTBALL TAILGATE. For the very first time, Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt shared rare, behind-the-scenes photos of herself and fiancé Sean Hannity enjoying a relaxed football tailgate. Away from the studio lights and cameras, the couple is all smiles, surrounded by friends and family, showing a playful and down-to-earth side fans rarely see. Social media erupted as followers marveled at this candid glimpse of their life off-air, calling it “a dream peek behind the curtain.”
FOX & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt treated fans to some rare behind-the-scenes snaps from a football tailgate with her friends and family.
In several of the photos, she posed with her fiancé, fellow Fox News host Sean Hannity.
With Hannity currently based in Florida and Earhardt in New York, the pair met in South Carolina to watch the Gamecocks take on the Alabama Crimson Tide.
“Had the best time at the South Carolina game this weekend,” Earhardt captioned a photo carousel shared on Instagram.
“So nice to see old friends and family. Go Gamecocks!”
The series of photos showed Earhardt and Hannity posing with various family members and friends as they tailgated a game for the University of South Carolina’s football team on Saturday.
Two of her photos show the food from the tailgate, as well as a sweet snap of Earhardt arm-in-arm with Hannity.
The fall activities are in full swing following a summer of fun.
In August, Earhardt and Hannity enjoyed a family vacation on the beach, joined by the Fox & Friends host’s daughter Hayden.
“Summer vacation with the entire family,” Earhardt captioned her Instagram post in August.
Earhardt shares daughter Hayden with ex-husband Will Proctor while Hannity shares two adult children, Patrick and Merri, with ex-wife Jill Rhodes.
The new tailgate photos arrive nearly one year after the couple’s engagement in December 2024, when Hannity popped the question while at their church in Florida.
“We are overjoyed and so thankful to our families for all of their love and support during this wonderful time in our lives,” they said in a joint announcement about their engagement.
The couple added, “Our children couldn’t be happier.”
The pair, who have kept their relationship largely private over the years, were first spotted together at public events in 2023, though the pair were first linked in a 2020 Vanity Fair story.
Three years later, they were spotted at a Waffle House in South Carolina in 2023, and again at a Long Island Oyster Festival.
However, it wasn’t until 2023 that Earhardt and Hannity hard-launched their relationship by arriving in a helicopter at the wedding of their former colleague Pete Hegseth.
“It was the talk of the evening — people couldn’t believe it,” one former Fox employee told The U.S. Sun of the bold entrance.
“It definitely confirmed the rumors that had been swirling.”
At the time, neither host would comment on the speculation surrounding their relationship.
Hannity said through a spokesperson, “I do not discuss my personal life in public,” while Earhardt did not comment on the relationship either and stressed she was focused on raising her daughter.
She later praised her fiancé, though, saying he was “a wonderful person.”
Despite their busy TV schedules, the couple continues to balance life between New York and Florida.
Earhardt remains based in Manhattan for Fox & Friends, while Hannity hosts his nightly show from his Florida home studio.
