National Enquirer

SCANDALOUS SECRETS!

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THE “FOX and Friends” team is all smiles on the top-rated morning show — but a National ENQUIRER investigat­ion has revealed things aren’t always so rosy behind the scenes!

The easygoing banter of co-hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, Janice Dean and Brian Kilmeade hides a string of off-camera scandals, including a nasty divorce, a DUI arrest and ugly feuds, according to insiders.

“All four stars have distinctly different personalit­ies. They barely talk when the cameras stop rolling and they don’t hang out together socially,” a source told The ENQUIRER. Perhaps the most controvers­ial of the bunch is Doocy, 62, who was implicated in the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by former show co-host Gretchen Carlson against late FOX News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes. According to her suit,

“Doocy engaged in a pattern and practice of severe and

pervasive sexual harassment of Carlson.”

While Carlson’s suit was settled for $20 million in 2016, the allegation­s against Doocy were never substantia­ted. Dean, the morning show’s meteorolog­ist, remains in a sticky position since she also claimed to have been sexually harassed by Ailes, who died in May 2017 at age 77.

But the 49-year-old mother of two hasn’t been afraid to speak her mind about the sexual harassment scandals that roiled the network. In 2018, Dean got into a Twitter spat with Darla Shine, the wife of ex-FOX News co-president Bill Shine — who was ousted for enabling Ailes’ behavior — after Darla accused former FOX superstar and “Today” show train wreck Megyn Kelly of lying about the network’s bad boys club. “What lies are you referring to exactly, Mrs. Shine? Be careful what you accuse people of,” Dean tweeted. Meanwhile, ambitious 55-year-old Kilmeade, who

started as a sports reporter, harbors huge dreams, sources said.

“He’s trying to network his way into bigger and better things,” the snitch said.

“Brian feels he’s an intellectu­al because of the books he’s written, and he’s incredibly jealous of the network’s bigger stars like [Sean] Hannity.”

But The ENQUIRER has learned the father of three is sitting on his own dirty secret — a DUI bust!

Kilmeade was arrested in 1988 for drunk driving after cops spotted his Honda “swerving over double yellow lines,” according to court records, which show he was given a “reduced plea” because of his clean record and was required to enter a program and pay a fine. Earhardt, who’s considered the “sweetheart” of the group, is embroiled in a nasty divorce after her husband, former Clemson University quarterbac­k William Proctor, allegedly cheated with one of her best friends — a claim he has vehemently denied. He filed to end their sixyear marriage in October. After the split, 42-yearold Earhardt stopped hobnobbing in power circles, sources said. She refused to comment on the divorce. After a string of sordid sex scandals were exposed in 2016, FOX coughed up an estimated $70 million to buy the silence of sexual harassment victims.

But renowned attorney Gloria Allred, who represente­d several of the alleged victims, believes the network remains a toxic environmen­t for women.

“There may still be questions in the minds of some female employees about

FOX News Channel’s commitment to having a workplace that is not polluted by sexual harassment,”

Allred told The

ENQUIRER.

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