Noelle Watters is the first wife of Fox News host Jesse Watters and the mother of his twin daughters. The two reportedly met while both worked at Fox News and married in 2009. According to the New York Daily News, as relayed by Raw Story in March 2018, she filed for divorce in October 2017. The case was due for trial in Suffolk County, New York, in March 2019, but the couple settled confidentially before it began. She has made no public statements about the marriage or its end, so nearly everything on the record about her comes from that stretch of coverage.
Online profiles have filled the gaps with careers, businesses and wealth figures that trace back to no identifiable source. This article sets out what reputable reporting documents, puts the divorce in its actual order, and identifies the popular claims about her that have no support.
Key takeaways
- Noelle Watters, whose maiden name is given as Inguagiato on Jesse Watters’ Wikipedia page, married the Fox News host in 2009 (reported). They have twin daughters, reported as born in 2011.
- She filed for divorce in October 2017, according to the New York Daily News. Fox News says Jesse Watters reported his relationship with a staff member to human resources in November 2017, the following month.
- The divorce ended without a trial. A court spokesperson told the Daily News that the couple had settled, and the terms were kept confidential (via Guardian Liberty Voice, March 2019).
- Her current work isn’t publicly documented. The widely repeated net worth figures and Fox fashion-hosting credits have no traceable source.
Noelle Watters profile summary
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Noelle Watters; maiden name given as Noelle Inguagiato on Wikipedia |
| Known for | First wife of Fox News host Jesse Watters |
| Former workplace | Fox News advertising and promotion department, per HollywoodLife (2018) and Daily Mail reporting cited by Nicki Swift |
| Marriage | Married Jesse Watters in 2009 (reported); divorce settled March 2019 |
| Children | Twin daughters, reported as born in 2011 |
| Divorce filing | October 2017, according to the New York Daily News |
How Noelle Watters met Jesse Watters at Fox News
Noelle Watters entered the public record through her job. In March 2018, HollywoodLife reported that she worked in Fox News’s advertising and promotion department and met Jesse Watters there. Nicki Swift, citing the Daily Mail, dated that first meeting to 2002, when both worked at the network.
They married in 2009, the year given consistently across later coverage, including HollywoodLife, Cheatsheet and Nicki Swift. No wedding announcement or other primary record has been published, so the date rests on that reporting.
Their twin daughters were born in 2011, according to the same outlets. HollywoodLife and Cheatsheet, the latter citing the Daily Mail, both reported that Noelle Watters went on maternity leave and did not return to her Fox job. That helps explain why so little is known about her later working life. After 2011, reputable reporting describes no on-air, bylined or production role for her.
Jesse Watters’ own profile kept growing as a Fox News host in the years after their marriage. Much of the attention later paid to Noelle Watters has followed him.
What happened in the divorce: the documented timeline
The divorce became public in March 2018, when the New York Daily News reported it and other outlets picked up the story. Raw Story’s account, citing the Daily News, said Noelle Watters had filed in October. Jesse Watters later disclosed to his superiors a relationship with Emma DiGiovine, a 25-year-old associate producer on his show Watters’ World.
Fox News addressed the workplace side in a statement quoted by the Philadelphia Inquirer. The network said: “Within 24 hours of Jesse Watters voluntarily reporting to the Chief of Human Resources in November 2017 … management met with both parties and a decision was made for the woman to be transferred.” In other words, Fox says he reported a relationship with a staff member, and she was moved to a different program, The Ingraham Angle.
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Noelle and Jesse Watters marry (reported) | HollywoodLife, Cheatsheet, Nicki Swift |
| 2011 | Twin daughters born (reported) | HollywoodLife, Cheatsheet |
| October 2017 | Noelle Watters files for divorce | New York Daily News, via Raw Story and the Inquirer |
| November 2017 | Jesse Watters reports the relationship to Fox HR; DiGiovine is transferred to The Ingraham Angle | Fox News statement, via the Inquirer |
| March 2018 | The divorce and the relationship become public | Daily News; Raw Story; Inquirer |
| March 20, 2019 | Scheduled Suffolk County divorce trial is cancelled after the couple settles | Court spokesperson to the Daily News, via Guardian Liberty Voice |
| August and December 2019 | Jesse Watters becomes engaged to, and then marries, Emma DiGiovine | Wikipedia; Nicki Swift |
Why some accounts get the order wrong
Many retellings put the events in the wrong order. Cheatsheet’s October 2021 account says Jesse Watters “made the announcement in 2017” and that Noelle Watters filed for divorce “shortly after that.” Wikipedia dates her filing to 2018. Guardian Liberty Voice’s March 2019 article gives “Oct. 2018,” which cannot be right, because the filing had already been reported in March 2018.
The reporting from the time points the other way. The Daily News, as relayed by Raw Story and the Inquirer, placed her filing in October, and Fox’s own statement dates Jesse Watters’ HR report to November 2017. Together they put her filing about a month before he reported the relationship to the network.
That order doesn’t tell readers what Noelle Watters knew or why she filed. Her own reasons for ending the marriage have never been stated publicly, and no account from her has been published.
How the divorce was settled
Noelle and Jesse Watters ended their divorce with a settlement, not a court ruling. According to Guardian Liberty Voice, relaying the Daily News in March 2019, they were scheduled to appear for trial on March 20, 2019, in Suffolk County, New York. A court spokesperson told the Daily News that the couple called to cancel because they had settled. Nicki Swift, citing the Daily Mail, also reported that the divorce became final in March 2019 without a court appearance.
The terms were kept confidential. The same coverage reported that court papers showed Noelle Watters had asked her husband to pay her legal bills, and that it was unclear whether a judge granted the request. Nothing else about the agreement has been made public, including financial terms or parenting arrangements.
Jesse Watters announced his engagement to DiGiovine in August 2019 and married her in December 2019, according to Wikipedia.
What Noelle Watters does now
What Noelle Watters does for a living today isn’t publicly documented. Several biography sites claim she became a licensed mental health counselor. A counselor with the same name does practice on Long Island, but no reliable source connects that person to Jesse Watters’ former wife, and the claim shouldn’t be treated as established.
She has given no interviews and made no public statements since the 2019 settlement. Pages promising a “today” update generally recycle the same unsourced material rather than reporting anything new.
Popular claims about her that lack support
Many highly ranked profiles describe Noelle Watters as the host of a Fox News fashion web series called “iMag Style,” a style consultant for The O’Reilly Factor, a Fairfield University graduate, and the founder of a home design firm called NKW Inc. Several of these pages repeat one another nearly word for word, and none cites a Fox News page, a business registration, a school record or a named reporter. The only Fox role described by reputable reporting is her job in the advertising and promotion department.
The same pages give a precise birth date, names for her daughters, and a net worth of $1 million to $2 million. There’s no documented basis for that figure. Her settlement is confidential, and no outlet has reported her income or assets. The birth dates in circulation also conflict from site to site.
FAQ
Did Jesse Watters leave his wife for Emma DiGiovine?
According to the New York Daily News, Noelle Watters filed for divorce in October 2017. Fox News says Jesse Watters reported his relationship with DiGiovine in November 2017. He married DiGiovine in December 2019, after the divorce was settled. Neither former spouse has publicly described the private circumstances.
What is the age difference between Jesse Watters and Emma DiGiovine?
Reports from March 2018 described Emma DiGiovine as 25 when the relationship became public. Those reports don’t establish a precise age gap, and none of the divorce coverage states one.
Has Noelle Watters remarried?
There are no reliable public reports that she has remarried or is in a relationship.
Who has custody of the twin daughters?
That hasn’t been made public. The divorce was resolved by a confidential settlement in March 2019, and no reputable outlet has reported its parenting terms.
Final Thoughts
The public record on Noelle Watters covers a single decade. She worked at Fox News, married Jesse Watters in 2009 and had twin daughters in 2011. She filed for divorce in October 2017, a month before her husband reported his relationship to the network, and settled the case confidentially in March 2019. That sequence, anchored by Fox’s own statement, corrects the most common error in what’s written about her.
Nothing reliable has been published about her since the settlement. Any claim about her current job, finances or personal life should be read against that March 2019 endpoint.
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