Jesse Watters Net Worth 2023 (Bio, Career, and Controversies)

Jesse Watters is among the highest-paid TV hosts in the United States. Jesse Watters net worth is $8 million.

He is a frequent guest on the political talk show The O’Reilly Factor and was known for his interviews with man-on-street featured in his segment “Watters World.” It became his own show later in 2015.

How I Saved the World is the first book he published in 2021. The book ranked number one on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list.

Jesse Watters Net worth

Jesse Watters net worth is estimated to be $8 million. Watters has become one of the most prominent faces on Fox News broadcasts.

Jesse Bailey Watters has several sources of income that have helped him expand his wealth to over $8 million as of the 2022 update.

He co-hosts the show “The Five,” where he earns most of his income as a television host and political commentator.

The Jessee Watters show currently averages over 3 million viewers in television ratings. This shows that Jesse Watters net worth in the coming five years is expected to increase by 200%.

He also makes money from a few of his side businesses.

Name	Jesse Watters
Net Worth	$8 Million
Profession	TV host, Political commentator
Place of birth	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Age	44 years

Early life

Jesse Bailey Watters, now 43 years old, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States on July 9, 1978.

He grew up in the East Falls and Germantown areas and finished his junior high school at the William Penn Charter School before moving to Long Island, New York, with his family.

He received a bachelor’s degree in history from Hartford, Connecticut’s Trinity College in 2001.

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Jesse Watters’ Personal life

Jesse Watters is the son of teacher Stephen Hapgood Watters and child psychologist Anne Purvis, the daughter of Morton Bailey, Jr, bookseller of Better Homes and Gardens.

In 2009, Watters married Noelle K. Inguagiato; both of them looked seemingly a happy couple. Jesse and Noelle were blessed with twin daughters two years later.

Jesse left Fox News for maternity leave at this time and didn’t return for a while.

After that, Watters had an affair with his executive producer, Emma DiGiovine. He accepted cheating on his wife and admitted to having an affair with Emma for a time. In reaction to this, Fox News moved Emma from Watters World to The Ingraham Angle the couple divorced in 2018.

After this event, Noelle, Jesse’s first wife, filed for divorce in 2017.

Jesse tweeted through his handle shortly after the divorce to announce his engagement to Emma. In 2019, Jesse married DiGiovine, and the two were blessed with a son in 2021.

Jesse Watters’ children’s names are:

• Ellie Watters
• Sophie Watters
• Junior Jesse Bailey Watters

Career

Jesse got a job as a production assistant for the Fox News Channel as soon as he finished college. His first job for the network was as a production assistant on “The O’Reilly Factor” when he first started working there in 2003.

In June 2014, Jesse joined the cast of “Outnumbered,” a daytime news program that airs on Fox Channel,  and since then, he has frequently co-hosted the show

In 2015, Jesse debuted in “Watters’ World,” a “The O’Reilly Factor” spin-off. The show got a premium time slot and began airing to its audience every Saturday at 8 PM ET. Also, Watters went on to co-host “The Five,” a famous roundtable talk show on Fox.

Jesse and four other commentators discuss the day’s events during this hour-long weekday broadcast. Common topics of discussion include pop culture and other political issues. With a regular lineup of guests, Watters co-hosts the show with Dana Perino and Greg Gutfeld.

His book

Jesse Watters takes readers on a tour of his life in How I Saved the World. While wandering across beaches, asking clueless college students simple political questions, and stumbling out of Air Force One with the President, he uncovered great truths about the country’s nature.

The book is hilarious, educational, and entertaining and was ranked first on the New York Times bestseller list for nonfiction.

Jesse Watters’ Controversy

When journalist Amanda Terkel was on vacation in 2009, Watters and his cameraman approached her while working on The O’Reilly Factor to interview her about a piece she had written that was critical of Bill O’Reilly.

After 7 years, at a press conference, The Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim invited Watters to go to Terkel and apologize while his phone camera was still recording. Watters first said he would apologize before changing his mind and saying he wouldn’t.

The event is captured on video, and at that point, Watters is seen grabbing Grim’s phone and throwing it to the ground before taking it and placing it in his pocket.

The two eventually started pushing each other as Grim tried to get his phone back. Watters addressed the event on The O’Reilly Factor and said, “I was at this party trying to enjoy myself. This guy approached me. He starts to putting it in my face.

Given that “Watters’ approach of confronting his subjects is to put cameras in their faces suddenly and bombard them with tough questions,” Terkel called Watters’ response “surprising.”

After the incident, he was commonly referred to as an “ambush journalist.”

Wrap up

Jesse Watters is regarded as one of the most successful TV journalists overall, no doubt in part because to his charisma, which should assure his sustained popularity and only raise his net worth

On social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, Watters is quite active. He has more than 92,000 followers on Twitter and more than 193,000 likes on Facebook.

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