{"id":2533,"date":"2025-03-20T05:52:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/surprising-connections-how-fox-friends-weekend-hosts-came-together-was-it-fate-or-pure-coincidence-that-rachel-campos-duffy-pete-hegseth-will-cain-became-the-faces-of-fox-friends\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T05:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:53:43","slug":"surprising-connections-how-fox-friends-weekend-hosts-came-together-was-it-fate-or-pure-coincidence-that-rachel-campos-duffy-pete-hegseth-will-cain-became-the-faces-of-fox-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/?p=2533","title":{"rendered":"SURPRISING CONNECTIONS: HOW FOX & FRIENDS WEEKEND HOSTS CAME TOGETHER! Was it fate or pure coincidence that Rachel Campos-Duffy, Pete Hegseth & Will Cain became the faces of Fox & Friends Weekend? Their paths crossed in unexpected ways, and their backgrounds couldn\u2019t be more different! What unknown details tie them together?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The three hosts of \u2018Fox and Friends Weekend\u2019 are TV personalities Rachel Campos-Duffy, Pete Hegseth, and Will Cain.<\/p>\n

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Source: Rachel Campos-Duffy Facebook
FOX News Channel\u2019s morning lineup on the weekdays includes Fox and Friends<\/em>, with co-anchors Ainsley Earhardt, Steve Doocy, and Brian Kilmeade. On the weekends, the network airs a similar program, Fox and Friends Weekend<\/em>. Who are the Fox and Friends Weekend <\/em>hosts?<\/p>\n

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On weekends, the morning show is hosted by three regulars: Rachel Campos-Duffy, Pete Hegseth, and Will Cain. Will Cain joined the show in the summer of 2020 after a career at ESPN, and Campos-Duffy entered the scene last year, replacing former host Jedediah Bila. Here\u2019s a look at the three current hosts of Fox and Friends Weekend.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pete Hegseth has been at FOX News since 2014<\/h2>\n

One of the Fox and Friends Weekend<\/em> hosts, Pete Hegseth, joined the network in 2014 as a contributor. A former infantry captain in the Army National Guard, Hegseth has been awarded two Bronze Stars and a Combat Infantryman Badge for his service.<\/p>\n

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Source: Rachel Campos-Duffy Facebook\u2019Fox and Friends Weekend\u2019 hosts on September 11, 2021.<\/p>\n

Hegseth earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in politics from Princeton University, and a master\u2019s degree in public policy at Harvard University\u2019s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He\u2019s hosted New Year\u2019s Eve specials for FOX. Recently, he was the host of a five-part FOX Nation special program, The Miseducation of America.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Will Cain took a weekend slot on the show in 2020<\/h2>\n

In June 2020, Deadline reported that Will Cain, a former ESPN radio host, would be taking a co-hosting spot on Fox and Friends Weekend.<\/em> At the time, vice president of morning programming Gavin Hadden said, \u201cWill has a unique ability to connect with an audience on a wide variety of topics and will make an excellent addition to the Fox & Friends franchise.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source: Will Cain FacebookWill Cain at the \u2018Field of Dreams\u2019 movie site in 2021.<\/p>\n

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Cain\u2019s education includes an undergraduate degree from Pepperdine University and a law degree from the University of Texas. He\u2019s also served as a political analyst at CNN, where he co-hosted In the Arena<\/em> with Eliot Spitzer and Starting Point<\/em> with Soledad O\u2019Brien. Additionally, he has financed (and eventually sold) two media companies, Quince Media and Cain Communications.<\/p>\n

In addition to his weekend co-hosting duties, Cain launched The Will Cain Podcast<\/em> in 2021, in which he comments on sports, politics, and news.<\/p>\n

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Rachel Campos-Duffy started her \u2018Fox and Friends Weekend\u2019 gig in 2021<\/h2>\n

The most recent addition to the weekend morning lineup for the FOX network is Rachel Campos-Duffy, who writes and produces various media in the niches of parenting and family life. She first gained notoriety on TV\u2019s The Real World San Francisco<\/em> in 1994. She has a bachelors\u2019 from Arizona State University and a master\u2019s from University of California, San Diego.<\/p>\n

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Source: Rachel Campos-Duffy FBSean Duffy and Rachel Campos-Duffy co-host a podcast together and frequently collaborate on other Fox projects.<\/p>\n

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With her husband, FOX contributor Sean Duffy, Campos-Duffy co-hosts podcast From the Kitchen Table<\/em> and has authored a book, All American Christmas.<\/em> She\u2019s a mother of nine and hosts Moms<\/em>, a subscription-based FOX streaming program.<\/p>\n

Campos-Duffy took over the vacant spot left by former Fox and Friends Weekend <\/em>co-host Jedediah Bila. A key difference between the two is that Bila has criticized former Donald Trump, while Campos-Duffy has supported the former president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The three hosts of \u2018Fox and Friends Weekend\u2019 are TV personalities Rachel Campos-Duffy, Pete Hegseth, and Will Cain. Source: Rachel Campos-Duffy FacebookFOX News Channel\u2019s morning lineup on the weekdays includes … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/2536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}