Reporters are guaranteed to scoop rivals when they are the only ones who know something. Fox News anchor Julie Banderas delivered a scoop on Thursday’s episode of the Fox program “Gutfeld!”
Host Greg Gutfeld asked the reporter if she was getting anything for Valentine’s Day.
“[Expletive deleted] Valentine’s Day!” Banderas exclaimed, calling it stupid. “Even when I was married, I didn’t get [bleeped] for Valentine’s Day.”
“Wait,” Gutfeld interjected, “you’re no longer married?”
Banderas leaned further back on her couch and replied with a smile to the host’s question.
“Well, I’m getting a divorce,” she responded, “I’m going to go ahead and say it right here for the very first time.”
“Thank you, everyone,” she continued. “Congratulations are in order.”
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The segment may have drawn more viewers to see what Banderas meant by the teaser she posted to Twitter earlier that day.
“Tune into @Gutfeldfox tonight at 11pm ET,” she commented. “I have a little announcement at the end of the show. (During the Valentines Day segment ironically).”
Her revelation about the end of her 14-year marriage to financial adviser Andrew Sansone, with whom she has three children, was not unusual for her. She announced their engagement in a September 2008 broadcast of “American Election Headquarters,” according to a Fox News report. A similarly public announcement seems a fitting bookend to the marriage.
After the episode broadcast, some speculation was posted to social media that it was a publicity stunt that would soon be revealed.
“I imagine that @JulieBanderas is going to say she was kidding on social media later tonight,” commented one Twitter follower. “Guys, you’re all gonna be disappointed.”
The Fox reporter replied in a retweet that she was not kidding.
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