Sean Hannity Biography
Sean Hannity is a Republican political pundit and talk show host from the United States. He hosts The Sean Hannity Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show, and has also aired Hannity, a Fox News commentary program, since 2009.
Sean Hannity Age
Hannity is 60 years old as of 2021. He was born Sean Patrick Hannity on 30 December 1961 in New York, New York, United States.
Sean Hannity Height
Hannity stands at a height of 5 feet and 11 inches(1.82 m).
Sean Hannity Family
Hannity is the daughter of Lillian (née Flynn) and Hugh Hannity. Hugh was a World War II soldier and a family-court officer, while Lillian worked as a stenographer and a prison officer at a county jail. He was the only boy and the youngest of four siblings. All of his grandparents were born in Ireland and came to the United States. He grew up in Franklin Square, Long Island, New York.
Hannity used to deliver editions of the New York Daily News and the Long Island Daily Press as a paperboy when he was younger. His parents were initially supporters of President John F. Kennedy, but as time went on, they became more conservative in their beliefs, albeit they avoided being overly political at home.
Sean Hannity Husband
Jill Rhodes was a political columnist for the Huntsville Times when Hannity met her in 1991 while working at WVNN in Huntsville, Alabama. In 1993, they married. The pair declared in June 2020 that they had divorced the previous year but had been separated for years.
Since then, Hannity has been dating Ainsley Earhardt, a Fox News colleague. In August of this year, Hannity and Earhardt attended a wedding at Trump National Golf Course in Colt’s Neck, New Jersey, as guests. She has been hosting her Fox & Friends show from a remote studio in the basement of Hannity’s Long Island estate throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sean Hannity Children
Hannity and Rhodes have two children: a boy, Patrick, who was born in 1998, and a daughter, Merri, who was born in 2001. Cold Spring Harbor High School is where both of their children graduated. Patrick was a tennis player at Wake Forest University. Merri is a tennis player who attends the University of Michigan. Merri was the fourth-best tennis player in New York State in high school.
Sean Hannity Education
Hannity went to Hempstead, New York’s Sacred Heart Seminary, and Uniondale, New York’s St. Pius X Preparatory Seminary. He studied at both New York University and Adelphi University but did not receive a diploma from either.
Sean Hannity Religion
In 2019, Hannity resigned from the Catholic Church, citing “too much systemic corruption.” He has stated, however, that as he has grown older, his Christian faith has “become stronger” and that he requires and desires God’s presence in his life.
Sean Hannity Net Worth
Hannity’s annual income was projected to be $36 million by Forbes in 2018. He bought a $5.3 million mansion a few miles from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in April 2021.
Sean Hannity Covid
During the spread of COVID-19 to the United States in February 2020, Hannity remarked “Many on the left now want Corona to wreck mayhem in America. Why? To gain cheap, obnoxious political points.” He called the virus a “hoax” in March 2020, saying it “may be true” that the epidemic was a “fraud” sponsored by the “deep state.” As the disease developed into a global epidemic and Trump proclaimed it a national emergency later in March, Hannity began to take the virus more seriously, claiming that he had dismissed it as a fake less than a month before. On live air in July 2021, Hannity urged viewers to consider vaccination.
Sean Hannity Jake Tapper
In the immediate aftermath of the 2017 New York City truck assault, when a terrorist shouted “Allahu Akbar,” Fox News misrepresented a statement by Jake Tapper to make it look as though he had declared “Allahu Akbar” can be used in the most “beautiful conditions.” The invocation of “Allahu Akbar” in the terrorist attack was not one of these circumstances, according to Tapper. A tag reading “OUTRAGEOUS” preceded a headline on FoxNews.com. In a post that was later removed, the Fox News Twitter account skewed the statement even further, claiming “Jake Tapper Says ‘Allahu Akbar’ Is ‘Beautiful’ Right After NYC Terror Attack.”
Even when the Fox News Twitter account deleted the post on Tapper’s out-of-context statements, Hannity repeated them to his audience, criticizing Tapper’s ratings and called him “liberal fake news CNN’s fake Jake Tapper.”
Sean Hannity Death Panels
One of the first Fox News shows to latch onto the false claim that the Affordable Care Act would create so-called “death panels” was Sean Hannity’s show. According to a study, Hannity spread a variety of lies regarding the act. For example, he stated multiple times that Democratic Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus declared the Affordable Care Act might make Social Security “insolvent un two years.”
Sean Hannity Immigration
In 2012, Hannity announced he had changed his mind about amnesty for undocumented immigrants and now supports a “road to citizenship.” He later came out against the proposal. CNN, The Washington Post, and New York magazine all classified him as an immigration hardliner by 2018. Trump boasted that Hannity agreed with him when he suggested shutting down the government to force Congress to fund his border wall in August 2018.
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.