Fox & Friends First co-anchor Ainsley Earhardt will debut February 29 as Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s replacement on Fox News Channel’s morning show Fox & Friends, the network announced this morning. Earhardt began her career at FNC in 2007 as a correspondent, and has been co-host of Fox & Friends First, airing weekdays…

Elisabeth Hasselbeck is leaving Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends. In the network’s announcement, Hasselbeck said she’s leaving to devote more time to raising her three children; she will continue to host until late next month. Hasselbeck joined Fox News in 2013 after filling the conservative role on the panel of ABC’s…

Elisabeth Hasselbeck  returned to Fox And Friends this morning after taking a month off due to “a bit of a scare,” she said this morning, adding she had the “blessing of it not being cancer.” “I had  a tumor in my abdomen. The doctor said, ‘You got to get it out by the end of the month, we don’t like how it looks’,&#8221…

Elisabeth Hasselbeck tweeted this morning she will be returning to Fox News Channel’s Fox and  Friends tomorrow: Full of #gratitude to be back TOMORROW 6am EST on @foxandfriends ! Morning are #BetterWithFriends like all of you! — elisabeth hasselbeck (@ehasselbeck) November 13, 2014 A network rep confirmed she'll…

Fox News Channel’s Fox And Friends announced this morning Elisabeth Hasselbeck is taking time off after having surgery yesterday; she will be out for a couple weeks.  A rep told Deadline Hasselbeck wishes the details remain private at this time. Fill-ins will rotate; Kimberly Guilfoyle got elected this morning. In…

All 11 co-hosts of The View turned up today to send off Barbara Walters — it’s her final week on-camera on the show. Joy Behar, Rosie O’Donnell, Meredith Vieira, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Lisa Ling, etc. Walters said she loved them all — a lot — across the broadcast, Hasselbeck insisted she is Babs’ fave, Babs got wrong…

Daytime talker The View will reunite all 11 of its co-hosts on Thursday, May 15 which is Barbara Walters‘ second-to-last day on the program. Walters, the show’s creator and EP, is ending her on-air run on the show May 16. (Babs will continue to be EP of The View along with executive producer Bill Geddie, her producing…

Here's the thing about a TV show in the news issuing a statement to the press, of the "absolutely no truth to this story" sort, in response to some hot piece of gossip making the rounds. If it's not on the level, you can use it once. The View used it twice. In round numbers, it was the gist of The View exec…

In her first full month co-hosting Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends, Elisabeth Hasselbeck averaged 1,226,000 viewers, with 289,000 of them in the 25-54 news demo. That's up 16% in total viewers and 22% in the demo compared to third-quarter 2013. Last week was Fox & Friends’ highest-rated demo this year, excluding…

Fox News Channel has finally unveiled details of Gretchen Carlson’s new program. Carlson’s new one-hour daytime program, The Real Story With Gretchen Carlson will launch on Monday at 2 PM ET. Preceding that program at 1 PM ET: a one-hour weekday presentation of America's News HQ, co-anchored by Bill Hemmer and Alisyn…

An average of 1.166 million people tuned in to watch Elisabeth Hasselbeck‘s Fox & Friends debut Monday morning. A slightly bigger crowd, 1.171 million people tuned in to say so long to the show’s longtime co-host Gretchen Carlson on Friday; Carlson gave up her spot on the curvy couch to make way for Hasselbeck…

Elisabeth Hasselbeck wasted no time in her debut on Fox & Friends early Monday morning. After handing the guys new coffee mugs, and speed-marveling at the new set, she sat down on the new curvy couch, dismissed her time on The View with a couple nice comments (Barbara Walters is like "the best surgeon") — ditto Survivo…