He’s no fan of inflation.
Fox News pundit Jesse Watters revealed on TV that he got a 25-year-old co-worker into his automobile by flattening her car tires.
“When I was trying to get Emma to date me, first thing I did, let the air out of her tires,” he confessed on “The Five” last week.
Watters, who was 39 and married at the time, is referring to his second wife, Emma DiGiovine, whom he wed in December 2019.
“She couldn’t go anywhere, she needed a lift,” Watters told his co-hosts. “I said ‘Hey you need a lift?’ She got right into the car.”
When his “The Five” co-hosts expressed surprise over his antics, Watters claimed that until now, his wife was unaware of his deflated tire trick. But he argued that what he did was fine, because they’re now married.
“It has a happy ending,” Watters defended.
When one of his colleagues asked if he’d taken the air out of other women’s tires to get them into his car, Watters responded, “It works like a charm.”
The Daily News first reported in 2018 that Watters was divorcing his wife Noelle Watters, the mother of his two daughters, while already in a relationship with an associate producer at Fox News.
A Fox News spokesperson said at the time that Watters and “a woman on his staff” told the network in 2017 they were in a relationship.
Fox News transferred DiGiovine to a different program. Watters was given a prime-time show called “Jesse Watters Primetime” in January. He has also appeared on “The Five” since 2017.
While Watters made his remarks about sabotaging his colleague’s car on April 11, mainstream and left-wing media is only now picking up on the segment.
Fox News critic Juliet Jeske, whose Twitter feed @DecodingFoxNews monitors the right-wing cable channel, posted a clip of Watters’ telling his story and said that as someone who has dealt with stalkers, she was struck by his tactics. She also called Watters’ encounter “a Fox News love story.”
The network has on several occasions been rocked by sexual misconduct scandals, including the series of allegations that led to the resignation of CEO Roger Ailes in 2016.
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