Noelle and Jesse Watters. Photo courtesy of New York Daily News.
Summary: Jesse Watters’ wife has filed for divorce.
Fox News host Jesse Watters is in hot water in his personal life. According to the New York Daily News, his wife filed for divorce in October because the father of two had an affair with a 25-year-old associate producer.
Sources told the paper that Watters, 39, was forced to disclose his adulterous relationship with the network after his wife, Noelle Watters, filed the divorce papers.
Jesse Watters allegedly had an affair with Emma DiGiovine, who was transferred to “The Ingraham Angle” after Watters’ disclosure. A source said that the host, who was recently seen dining with President Donald Trump, is still dating DiGiovine.
A Fox News spokesperson told New York Daily News that the relationship between Watters and his mistress was consensual.
“Within 24 hours of Jesse Watters voluntarily reporting to the Chief of Human Resources in November 2017 that he was in a consensual relationship with a woman on his staff, management met with both parties and a decision was made for the woman to be transferred to work on another program on the network where she currently remains,” the spokesperson said.
Sources told New York Daily News that rumors of Watters’ affair spread within Fox News late last year, and the two parties showed off their relationship by posting pictures of them together on social media. One of the posts included a picture of a Caribbean vacation.
Watters is known as a rising star on Fox News, and President Trump, who is currently embroiled in his own cheating scandal with porn star Stormy Daniels, invited him to dine at the White House on Thursday.
For Watters, this is not the first time he has found love at Fox News. He met Noelle there, while she was working in marketing and he as a host of a web show, and the two married in 2009. They had twin girls in 2011. After the birth of her daughters, she did not return to work.
Watters joined Fox News in 2001, and in 2003, he was a political humorist on Bill O’Reilly’s now canceled show “The O’Reilly Factor.” O’Reilly was accused of sexual harassment by several women, and he was forced to step down last year.
Watters is now the star of his own show “Watters World” which airs weekly.
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