Fox News contributor Rachel Campos-Duffy has been officially tapped to replace Jedediah Bila as the new co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend. (TVNewser)
The cable news channel announced Monday that Campos-Duffy, 49, will join the program June 12 alongside co-hosts Pete Hegseth and Will Cain. (LA Times / Company Town)
She’ll become the only Hispanic woman to co-host a cable news morning program. Additionally, Lawrence Jones will take on a new position as enterprise reporter for the Fox & Friends franchise, the network said, and will continue to fill in as co-host of both the weekday and weekend editions of the show. (TheWrap)
Campos-Duffy has been affiliated with Fox News since 2016, and has worked as a contributor, on the daytime program Outnumbered, and, more recently, as a guest host during the network’s new 7 p.m. program. She has also appeared ABC’s The View. (Variety)
In addition to her new role, she will continue to host Fox Nation’s Moms, a program aimed to “spotlight both the joys and challenges of motherhood,” as well as begin to co-host a Fox News podcast with her husband Sean Duffy, also a network contributor. (Mediaite)