Jesse Watters

Watters was born on 9th of July on 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. He spent his childhood in the Germantown and East Falls neighborhoods.

After attending the William Penn Charter School during his junior year, he moved to Long Island, New York with his family. Watters graduated by earning a Bachelor’s degree in History (B.A.) from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

He enjoys a happy married life with Noelle Inguagiato Watters.  

Watters started out his career as a production assistant at Fox News, from where he moved on to The O’Reilly Factor as its production staff in 2003. And in 2004, he started making live appearances on the show. He made his debut as a political commentator on June 11, 2014 on the Fox News show, Outnumbered.

He started his own monthly Fox News program, Watters’ World on 20th November, 2015. Also classified as an “ambush journalist”, Walters has stated that he has always tried “to make it enjoyable” for the person that he’s interviewing. Watters’ World moved on from being a monthly show to a weekly show from January 2017. He was appointed co-hosted on the roundtable series, The Five on April 2017.

However smooth his career may look, there have been a few obstacles and controversies that have had Watters at its center.

On October of 2016, Watters faced criticisms of Watters’ World, which was considered to show racist behaviors towards Asian Americans. He had asked the Chinese Americans in New York’s Chinatown if they knew karate and whether he should bow to greet them. Bill de Blasio, NYC’s mayor condemned Watters that his “vile, racist behavior” has “no place in our city”.

He issued a “non-apology”, as Variety’s Will Thorne called it, on Twitter stating: “My man-on-the-stree interviews are meant to be taken as tongue-in-cheek and I regret if anyone found offense… As a political humorist, the Chinatown segment was intended to be a light piece, as all Watters’ World segments are.”

In the April of 2017, after Ivanka Trump’s speech on female entrepreneurship, he commented: "So I don’t really get what’s going on here, but I really liked how she was speaking into that microphone” while mimicking oral sex gesture with his hands.

Later he another non-apology stating: “During the break we were commenting on Ivanka's voice and how it was low and steady and resonates like a smooth jazz radio DJ...This was in no way a joke about anything else."

Publicity is publicity, whether it comes in good or bad forms. Watters has been able to become the hottest topic to discuss about a few times over the years which has gained him quite some popularity, especially on social media platforms.

Available as @JesseBWatters on Twitters, he as 566 thousand followers and has tweeted around 9800 times. Also available on Instagram as @jessewatters, he has 213 thousand followers on the site.

He also has a Facebook account in which 686 thousand people have liked his page and 693 thousand people follow him.

The 39-year-old has had a great career quite so far and it’s no secret that Fox News pays him very handsomely for his work on the channel. Although his salary has not been out in the open, it is estimated that currently, his net worth is around $1 million, which dictates his success far and wide.