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Sean Hannity has become one of the most influential people on television, hosting his own show, Hannity, on Fox News. The long-time television and radio personality has worked in the media for decades. However, not much is known about his private life.<\/p>\n

Hannity and his wife Jill Rhodes divorced in 2019 after more than 20 years of marriage. However, reports claimed that he found a new girlfriend shortly after, and she might look familiar to you.<\/p>\n

And even though it might be true, both Sean Hannity and his rumored girlfriend are lying low about it. Here\u2019s all you need to know!<\/p>\n

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\nEd Rode\/Getty Images for Politicon<\/p>\n

From a young age, pretty much all of us have some idea about what we want to do when we grow up. Some want to be a police officer, others an astronaut, or maybe a professional athlete, singer, or dancer.<\/p>\n

Even though we might have the dream \u2013 and should continuously pursue it \u2013 it doesn\u2019t always end up like that. And for some, it just takes a lot of time to get there, resulting from the fact that you should never stop dreaming.<\/p>\n

For Sean Hannity, that was the case. As a young child, he started his first job in media, delivering papers. It might not have been the most significant, most prominent work, but nonetheless important.<\/p>\n

Sean Hannity \u2013 from paperboy to Fox host
\nIt took many years before Hannity went into the media business. And now, he\u2019s become a multimillionaire through his shows, both on television and the radio.<\/p>\n

At the same time as Hannity has become a public figure \u2013 and reportedly one of Donald Trump\u2019s closest friends \u2013 not much is known about his private life.<\/p>\n

Hannity has chosen to be restrictive with his life outside the spotlight, but reports about his latest romance are out.<\/p>\n

This is all you need to know about him!<\/p>\n

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\nKevin Winter\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

On December 30, 1961, Sean Hannity was born in New York City. His parents, Hugh and Lillian, were first-generation Irish immigrants. He grew up in the Long Island suburb of Franklin Square.<\/p>\n

Hannity\u2019s father worked as an officer in the family court system, and his mother as a corrections officer. As a youngster, he attended Catholic school \u2013 and in fact, he started his career in the media business very early. At 8, Sean Hannity pedaled around in Long Island as a newspaper delivery boy, and four years later, he started working on several restaurants.<\/p>\n

First job in radio
\nThe youngest child and only son of first-generation Irish immigrants Hugh and Lillian, Hannity grew up in Franklin Square, a Long Island suburb of New York. Both of Hannity\u2019s parents worked in the justice system: Lillian as a corrections officer and court stenographer and Hugh as an officer in New York City\u2019s family court system.<\/p>\n

Hannity graduated from high school in Uniondale, New York, and continued to work at restaurants to save money for college. He first attended Adelphi University on Long Island before switching to both New York University and the University of California Santa Barbara. However, he never graduated from college.<\/p>\n

The money had run out along the way, and Hannity turned to work in the construction industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was 20 years of my life I did really hard work,\u201d he told the NY Post. \u201cI never forget that I\u2019ve done the real work in life and know how hard things really can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

After leaving college, Sean Hannity started his career in media. Today, there are very different opinions on him and his views, which is entirely normal when it comes to his job as a political commentator.<\/p>\n

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However, as he began his career in radio, Hannity became quite controversial after just a year.<\/p>\n

Sean Hannity \u2013 become a political commentator
\nSean has had a fascination with radio since he was a young kid. He began hosting his first radio talk show in 1989 on the college radio station KCSB FM in Santa Barbara. However, they took him off the air a year later due to a controversial remark about a lesbian mother.<\/p>\n

So instead of staying in California, Hannity moved to Alabama, where he was employed at the conservative AM station WVNN in Athens. Later, he worked at the radio station WGST in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

But being a politically conservative radio commentator wasn\u2019t the easiest thing. As a result, Hannity felt that he had some problems finding his voice.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt develops over time. It\u2019s not like a light goes on, and you find your own way of doing and saying things,\u201d he told the NY Post, comparing his early days in the late 1980s to Howard Stern\u2019s character\u2019s foray into radio in the movie Private Parts. \u201cYou try to sound like a radio guy. And meanwhile, you sound like a dork novice trying to sound like a radio guy.\u201d <\/p>\n

Far from the big television deal he has today; Sean Hannity was still trying to find his way in the mid-1990s. Eventually, he left a radio station job in Huntsville, Alabama. A local newspaper\u2019s editorial about his departure read: \u201cGoodbye to the talk show host from hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hannity might have left Alabama without a radio gig, but more importantly, that\u2019s where he met his future wife, Jill Rhodes.<\/p>\n

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Everyone didn\u2019t love Hannity, but at the same time, plenty of people thought he was great.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m surprised they didn\u2019t fire me\u201d
\nIn October 1996, Fox News was founded and launched to millions of cable subscribers. Sean Hannity was one of the political commentators that got a job with the network.<\/p>\n

As of now, we all know that Sean Hannity is still at Fox News. However, in the beginning, the host himself didn\u2019t think he would last long.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m surprised they didn\u2019t fire me. I was God awful when I first started. I was terrible,\u201d Hannity said, recalling his first review by Newsday\u2019s Verne Gay. \u201cHe said, \u2018Alan Colmes looks funereal, and Sean Hannity has a bad haircut and has no business being on TV.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Alongside the late Alan Colmes \u2013 who died in 2017 \u2013 Sean Hannity hosted Hannity & Colmes. As the network relocated to New York City, He also started working at the radio station WABC, hosting The Sean Hannity Show. The show was later broadcasted on more than 500 radio stations in the US, which turned Hannity into an extensive profile for Fox News.<\/p>\n

Later on, Hannity hosted the Fox News show Hannity\u2019s America, and as his former co-host Alan Colmes left in 2009, he resumed with the show Hannity.<\/p>\n

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\nTheo Wargo\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Today, Sean Hannity is one of Fox News\u2019s biggest stars and conservative political commentators, and he is getting paid for it. According to a 2020 Forbes report, Hannity earns about $25 million a year.<\/p>\n

Sean Hannity \u2013 family, children, net worth
\n\u201cI think I work harder now than I ever did. I find ways to work harder and smarter,\u201d he said in October of last year.<\/p>\n

Sean Hannity explained that once he\u2019s done with his show around 10 pm, he instantly grabs something to eat and does research for the next day\u2019s show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sleep about four or five hours, maybe, I get up in the morning and do a hard workout with mixed martial arts,\u201d Hannity added, saying that he works out for 90 minutes at least four days each week. \u201cI live like a Marine all week long, it\u2019s pretty intense.\u201d <\/p>\n

As of today, Sean Hannity has a net worth of around $300 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.<\/p>\n

As Sean Hannity rose to fame through radio, he also met his wife, Jill Rhodes, in Alabama. She was working as a political columnist for the Huntsville Times at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was really talented \u2014 gifted, but I really just fell in love with the little picture in her column,\u201d he told Newsmax in 2011.<\/p>\n

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The couple started dating. However, many people were against the two getting married, including their pastor.<\/p>\n

Divorced in 2019
\n\u201cEveryone that she worked with at her newspaper warned her not to marry me,\u201d Hannity recalled. \u201c\u2018You mean that guy on the radio?\u2019 Because it was Huntsville, Alabama, and I\u2019m Sean, the New York talk-radio [guy].\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1993, Sean Hannity and Jill Rhodes tied the knot. The couple welcomed two children in son Sean Patrick Hannity (born in 1998) and daughter Merri Kelly Hannity (2001).<\/p>\n

Besides working on Fox News, Sean Hannity has written several books. He dedicated his 2002 book, Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism, to Rhodes and their children.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are the ones who put up with the long work hours I needed to invest in this project,\u201d Hannity wrote in the acknowledgments. \u201cThey are the ones who make it worth doing \u2014 and make my life complete and happy on more levels than I can explain. I am blessed to have them in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Jill Rhodes and Sean Hannity divorced in 2019 after more than 20 years of marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cSean and Jill are committed to working together for the best interests of their children. Amicable agreements were entered into over four years ago between Sean and Jill. They maintain a close relationship as parents to their children,\u201d a joint statement read.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeither will have any further comments and ask for sake of their children that their privacy be respected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rumored romance with Fox host Ainsley Earhardt
\nBut it didn\u2019t take long before rumors of Sean Hannity\u2019s new romance spread.<\/p>\n

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\nAinsley Earhardt. Youtube\/Thelist<\/p>\n

A year later, Vanity Fair reported that Sean Hannity had started dating Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt. A source told the news outlet that the two had \u201cbeen seeing each other very secretively for years.\u201d People reported the same information.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s very private because he\u2019s very famous, and he\u2019s very controversial,\u201d an insider said, \u201cbut it\u2019s been an open secret that they have been seeing each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Earhardt and Hannity quickly denied the reports that the two were involved in a relationship.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, I am focused on raising my daughter, and I am not dating anyone,\u201d Earhardt, a Fox & Friends host, said through a network spokesperson. \u201cAs anyone at Fox News will tell you, Sean is a wonderful person, and whomever he chooses to date will be extremely fortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In his own statement through a spokesperson, Hannity said: \u201cI do not discuss my personal life in public.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are quarantining together\u201d
\nIn 2019, Ainsley Earhardt also went through a divorce with her ex-husband Will Proctor. The couple was married for seven years. They share a daughter, Hayden, born in 2015.<\/p>\n

Sources told Page Six that she and Hannity lived close to each other during the pandemic, with Sean residing on Long Island and Earhardt renting a house nearby.<\/p>\n

Further, Sean Hannity is said to have a studio at home, which, according to the Page Six Source, has been used by Ainsley to do her remote broadcasts for Fox & Friends.<\/p>\n

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