Sean Hannity proposes to his Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt during Christmas week

Sean Hannity proposes to his Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt during Christmas week

Fox News anchors Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt are engaged.

After years of quiet long-distance relationships, Hannity, 62, proposed to Earhardt, 48, at a church in his home state of Florida over Christmas week.

“We are overjoyed and so grateful to our families for all their love and support during this wonderful time in our lives,” the couple told Fox News.

Ainsley Earhardt/Instagram Ainsley Earhardt and Sean Hannity

Ainsley Earhardt/Instagram

Ainsley Earhardt and Sean Hannity

The two added that they received the blessing and support of their children, who “couldn’t be happier.”

Hannity has two children, Patrick and Merri, with his ex-wife Jill Rhodes, whom he married in 1993 and divorced in 2019.

Earhardt now has a daughter, Hayden, with his ex-husband Will Proctor. The former couple married in 2012, announced their separation in 2018 and finalized their divorce in 2019. Earhardt, who lives in New York, was married to Kevin McKinney from 2005 to 2009.

The couple told Fox News that they are “still on good terms” with their ex-spouses and that they “made them aware in advance that this was happening.”

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According to the medium, Hannity and Earhardt said they bonded over their shared religious beliefs and called the church “the perfect place” to propose. They met with their minister shortly after the engagement.

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Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt

Back in June 2020, a source in Hannity and Earhardt’s circle told PEOPLE that they had been seeing each other “very secretly for years,” although the couple had publicly denied it.

“He’s very private because he’s very famous and very controversial,” the source said at the time, “but it was an open secret that they were seeing each other.”

“They’re together all the time, but privately…for years, not just months,” the source continued.

Earhardt hosted her during the COVID-19 pandemic Fox & friends Program from a studio in the basement of Hannity’s Long Island mansion.

In October 2019, Earhardt told PEOPLE she was ready to date again and open to having more children.

“I would like to find love again and one day I would like to show Hayden a loving relationship,” she said. “But I’m not sure when that will be. I know that God will put the right man in my life if that is His will, and He will do it in His time.”

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