Ainsley Earhardt

Ainsley Earhardt was born on September 20, 1976, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA. She has an older sister and a younger brother. When she was a kid, her family moved to the Foxcroft area of Charlotte, North Carolina. There she attended Sharon Elementary School. She graduated from Spring Valley High School in 1995. She went to Florida State University (FSU) on a leadership and academic scholarship, with biology as major.

In FSU, she served the student body as a senator. She later transferred to the University of South Carolina (USC) to pursue a degree in journalism. There she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) in Journalism in 1999. At FSU, she was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi, and Beta Epsilon in USC, and was inducted into four honor societies. She was also elected to the University's Homecoming Court.

In 2005, she married Kevin McKinney but the marriage lasted only till 2010. In October 2012, Earhardt married Will Proctor, a former Clemson University quarterback. In 2009, he had retired from football, and is now a wealth adviser at Neuberger Berman. On November 6, 2015, their daughter Hayden Dubose Proctor was born.

After Ainsley Earhardt graduated in 2000, she joined WLTX-News 19, the local CBS station in Columbia, South Carolina, as a reporter. Until 2004, she worked as the morning and noon anchor, and both the shows were rated No.1. For her contribution, she was named the Best Personality Of The Year in Columbia Metropolitan Magazine.

In 2005, she moved to San Antonio, Texas, to join KENS-TV and anchored the weekday newscasts of ‘Eyewitness News This Morning’ and ‘Eyewitness News at Noon,’ both shows rated No. 1.Her coverage from New York City about the South Carolina middle school students donating half a million dollars to firefighters after the September 11 attacks was appreciated.

In 2007, she moved to New York City and was hired by Fox News Channel. She started off by working for the curtain-raiser show ‘Fox & Friends’, before she took over as the host of the main program. She replaced Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who resigned from the show. She is highly appreciated for the daily morning news show on Fox News Channel. One of her major assignments at Fox was an interview with Trump, days before his inauguration as the president.

In an interview with TVNewser, she said that she had dedicated her first day at ‘Fox & Friends’ to her parents. “They are amazing people. They’ve worked so hard to give me so much,” she said.

She is quite adventurous too! While she was living in Texas in 2005, she flew in an F-16 with the US Air Force Thunderbirds and went skydiving with the US Army's Golden Knights.