Jesse Watters Biography
Jesse Watters is a Fox News political commentator who is an American Republican. He was a regular on the political talk show The O’Reilly Factor, where he was noted for his man-on-the-street interviews, which he included in his “Watters’ World” segment, which would later become its own show in 2015.
Jesse Watters Age
Watters is 43 years old as of 2021. He was born on 9 July 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Jesse Watters Height
Watters stands at a height of 6 feet 0 inches(1.83m).
Jesse Watters Family
Watters is the son of teacher Stephen Hapgood Watters and child psychologist Anne Purvis, the daughter of Better Homes & Gardens magazine editor Morton Bailey, Jr. Her grandfather, Morton Bailey, was the publisher of The Saturday Evening Post, and his father, Morton S. Bailey, was a politician. Dr Franklin Benjamin Watters, Watters’ paternal grandpa, was a cardiologist at the Newington Veterans Administration Hospital and a professor at the University of Connecticut Medical Dental School.
On his father’s side, he has some Irish ancestry. Watters is named after his mother’s great-grandfather, Jesse Andrew Burnett, a Kansas Supreme Court associate chief justice. Watters grew up in the Germantown and East Falls areas of Philadelphia. He went to William Penn Charter School until his junior year before moving to Long Island, New York, with his family. He earned a B.A. in history from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 2001.
Jesse Watters Wife
In 2009, he married Noelle Inguagiato and they had twin children. Watters admitted to having an affair with Emma DiGiovine, a producer on his show, and Noelle filed for divorce in 2018. The divorce between Inguagiato and Watters was finalized in March 2019. Watters proposed to DiGiovine in August of this year, and the couple married in December of the same year. In the year 2021, their son was born. Watters was hospitalized for five days in April 2022 after suffering a back injury. On April 25, 2022, he returned to work.
Jesse Watters Amanda Terkel “ambush”
Watters and his cameraman approached writer Amanda Terkel while she was on vacation in 2009, on assignment for The O’Reilly Factor, to ask her questions regarding an article she wrote that was critical of Bill O’Reilly. The Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim approached Watters with his phone camera running at a journalists’ reception seven years later and asked him to walk over to Terkel and apologize.
Watters then grabs Grim’s phone and throws it on the floor, before snatching it again and putting it in his pocket, according to the video of the incident. As Grim attempted to reclaim his phone, the two engaged in a shoving struggle. “Watters’ style of addressing his subjects is to push cameras in their faces abruptly and barrage them with hostile questions,” Terkel observed, and Watters’ response was “surprising.”
Jesse Watters Salary
Watters earns an annual salary of $2 million.
Jesse Watters Net Worth
Watters has an estimated net worth of $73 Million.
Jesse Watters Chinatown segment
Guy Watters, a TV personality, was chastised in October 2016 for a portion of Watters’ World that was generally regarded as racist toward Asian Americans. Watters questioned Chinese Americans whether they understood karate (which is a Japanese martial art, not Chinese), if he should bow before greeting them, and if their watches had been stolen during the show. Watters’ episode was criticized by New York City mayor Bill de Blasio as “vile, bigoted behavior” that “has no place in our city.” Watters was chastised by a slew of other lawmakers and journalists.
Jesse Watters Career
Watters started working as a production assistant at Fox News after graduating. In 2003, he joined The O’Reilly Factor’s production team, and in 2004, he began to appear on-air in segments of O’Reilly’s show.
Watters began on the Fox News show Outnumbered on June 11, 2014, and later appeared as a guest co-host on the show. Watters’ World, his monthly Fox News show, premiered on November 20, 2015. “I try to make it fun for the person I’m interviewing,” Watters has stated, despite being labeled a “ambush journalist.” For the most part, we always leave the interview with a big smile on our faces. And it’s always entertaining to go back and watch the tape and wonder, ‘Oh my God, what just happened?'” Watters’ World started a weekly show in January 2017, airing on Saturdays at 8 p.m. ET.
Watters joined the discussion series The Five as a co-host in April 2017. Watters’ new book, How I Saved the World, was announced by HarperCollins in April 2021, and it was released on July 6, 2021. For the week ending July 10, 2021, the book debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list. Watters was named on January 10, 2022, as the permanent host of a new primetime show titled Jesse Watters Primetime, which premiered on January 24, 2022, after serving as one of several rotating fill-in hosts in the network’s 7 PM time slot. Watters’ World aired its final episode on January 15, 2022, but Watters is still a co-host on The Five.
Other anchors include Forrest Sawyer, Joan Lunden, Jim Avila, Joan Lunden, Cecily Tynan, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan, Lara Spencer, Ginger Zee, David Muir, Amy Robach, Kendis Gibson, Diane Macedo, Rob Nelson, Paula Faris, and Reena Ninan.