Jesse Watters, a host on Fox News, is facing criticism after an old video clip resurfaced, highlighting the unusual way he first approached his now-wife.
The footage, originally aired in 2022, features Watters, now 47, candidly revealing that he deflated the tires of a 25-year-old colleague at Fox—whom he eventually married—to create an opportunity to give her a ride home.
At that time, Watters, then 39, was married to another woman, whom he had also met through his workplace.
In the clip, he told his co-hosts the woman in question was Emma DiGiovine, who he went on to marry in December 2019.
With a grin, Watters recounted, “When I was trying to get Emma to date me, the first thing I did was let the air out of her tires.”
“She couldn’t go anywhere, so she needed a lift,” he continued. “I said, ‘Hey, do you need a ride?’ She got right into the car.”
His co-hosts reacted with surprise to the story, and Watters went on to assert that his now-wife remains unaware of the crafty tactic he employed.
Watters then appeared to justify his actions by stating that the pair are now married.
Fox News host Jesse Watters (seen this month) has come under fire after a clip resurfaced of him discussing how the controversial way he first made a move on his now-wife
In the video, Watters, now 47, admitted to deflating the car tires of a 25-year-old fellow Fox staffer so he could offer her a ride home. He and his wife are seen in 2023
‘It has a happy ending,’ Watters insisted.
Another of his colleagues asked if he had taken the air out of other women’s cars in order to get them into his own, which the Fox host implied that he may well have done.
‘Is that the first time you did it, or did you use that before?’ Jeannine Pirro inquired.
‘It works like a charm!’ he bragged.
A person close to Watters told the Daily Mail that he has since said that he was joking when he told the story.
The clip was picked up by online news show The Young Turks at the time, and was slammed by the hosts, who branded his dating trick as ‘predatory.’
‘Not only [was Watters story] insanely creepy and predatory, but Watters also played it off like it was a perfectly normal thing to do,’ the outraged hosts wrote in the video’s description.
Political commentator Cenk Uygur said Watters’ actions made the Fox host seem like a ‘stalker.’
Watters made the bizarre on-air admission in 2022 during a segment on The Five on Fox
After his co-hosts expressed their shock over the story, Watters claimed that his wife (seen) was unaware of his devious plan to this day
It was 2018 when Watters was divorcing his first wife Noelle Watters, pictured, who is mother to his twin daughters
‘While she reported into you, you vandalized her car so she couldn’t get home,’ he said incredulously. ‘She would be trapped and need your assistance, so you could have a captive audience.’
‘There are plenty of daughters who deal with predatory behavior from their bosses, that’s what Me Too started off as being about,’ host Ana Kasparian pointed out. ‘And I don’t know that the culture has really changed all that much.’
Watters also met his first wife, Noelle Inguagiato, while working at Fox News. They welcomed twin daughters Sophie and Ellie in 2011.
The couple finalized their divorce in March 2019, with Watters wasting no time and tying the knot to DiGiovine later that year.
They went on to welcome two children: a son Jesse Jr. who was born in 2021 and a daughter Georgina born in 2023.
