I am NOT a cheat: Ainsley Earhardt's furious husband files for divorce (2024)

Ainsley Earhardt is headed for the divorce court for a second time, DailyMail.com can reveal.

The Fox & Friends host's husband filed papers on Wednesday to end their six-year marriage just hours after DailyMail.com revealed that the pair had split.

And former college quarterback Will Proctor steadfastly denied that he had cheated on the blonde morning anchor with one of her best friends.

'There is not one ounce of truth to the allegation that I had an affair,' Proctor said in a statement to DailyMail.com

'I am devastated about this situation and did not envision this for the future of our family,' he added.

'I remain focused on and committed to being the best dad, and maintaining a friendship with my wife even though she has decided to move on,' Proctor, 34, said. The couple have one daughter, Hayden, who turns three next month.

'This morning I filed an action for divorce,' he said. 'This is a very personal matter, and for the sake of our young daughter, I ask that the media respect the privacy of our family.'

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Friends said that Proctor and Earhardt, 42, had even talked about working towards a reconciliation - but now any hope that the couple could get back together has been blown out the window.

'Her social life now revolves around her colleagues at Fox News,' one source told DailyMail.com.

Proctor, who was starting quarterback for Clemson and is now a private credit investment advisor at the New York financial firm Neuberger Berman, is understood to be particularly upset that his wife uses their daughter to promote her image.

She regularly posts pictures of Hayden on her social media accounts and the little girl has even featured on Fox & Friends.

DailyMail.com revealed late Tuesday that Earhardt, who stars alongside Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade on President Trump's favorite cable news show, had split from her eight-years-younger husband.

Friends of hers claimed the couple had failed to work through an affair he had had several years ago with a woman Earhardt had regarded as one of her best friends.

'After much prayer and careful consideration, Will and I have separated,' she said in a statement.

'I am grateful to Fox for their support and allowing me to spend all day, every day after the morning show with my child.

'I am fully committed to parenting and doing what is always best for my darling little girl and would appreciate privacy and prayers during this difficult time.'

Earhardt co-hosted the show on Wednesday without making any mention of her marriage.

The couple are now living in separate apartments just 12 blocks from each other on New York's Upper East Side.

Sources close to Earhardt say the couple split after trying for years to piece their marriage back together following her husband's alleged affair.

'It was all the more devastating for Ainsley that he cheated with someone who she considered one of her closest friends,' Earhardt's friend said.

'Any marriage break-up is difficult but this made it extra heartwrenching for her.

'She has evidence that proves the affair,' the source added, although she would not go into what that evidence is.

The couple met on a blind date and married in Proctor's home town of Winter Park, Florida, in 2012, three years after Earhardt divorced her high school sweetheart Kevin McKinney, whom she had married in 2005 in San Antonio, Texas.

The couple were regularly pictured together at social events, but in recent months, Earhardt has dropped any mention of her husband.

When she celebrated her September 20 birthday on air with Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, his name was never brought up. Instead Earhardt said her sister - teacher Elise, who lives in Charleston, South Carolina - was helping her raise Hayden.

And in a profile with Elle Magazine in August, he was similarly airbrushed out of her life.

Even in a piece she did with My Morning Routine in which she detailed her life from the moment she got up, she neither said anything nor was she asked about her husband.

'I wake up around 3:00am when my alarm goes off, and I snooze for a few minutes. When I finally roll out of bed, I check the baby monitor to make sure that Hayden, my daughter, is okay,' she said.

'After I get up, I get ready and go into the kitchen before I leave to grab either a cup of coffee or a glass of water. I make sure to get all my ducks in a row before I head out the door and go to work.

'On my way to work, I read my Jesus Calling daily devotion and put in earbuds and listen to hymns. Once I've read my devotion, I read through what's coming up on the show one more time (because I've studied it the night before).'

At night, she said she likes to go to bed around 9 pm — 'but that never happens. My daughter likes to stay up as late as possible—she gets that from me.

'I'm a night owl and I love alone time when the house is finally quiet.'

Earhardt, suffered what Elle called 'a wrenching miscarriage' before her successful pregnancy. Now, friends say, her life revolves around her daughter and her faith.

'Everytime I call her she has to put the phone down to get something for Hayden,' one friend said.

Sources in the apartment building where Proctor lives say they often see him with his daughter.

Earhardt made her name on Fox News reporting her 'Ainsley Across America' segment for network star Sean Hannity after joining the network in 2007.

She then joined the new show Fox & Friends First and learned she had got her current job while on maternity leave after having Hayden.

She joined the show on the day before 'Super Tuesday' when Trump effectively locked up the Republican nomination for president.

She had previously worked for a local stations in her hometown of Columbia, South Carolina, and in San Antonio, Texas.

She interviewed Trump at the White House in August, the day after his lawyer Michael Cohen reached a plea deal with prosecutors. The Associated Press called her interview 'by turn sympathetic and gently probing.'

'To be fair to Earhardt, she was caught for this interview between apocalyptic expectations and an audience filled with people who love Trump and hate journalists,' added the AP.

Earhardt claims she always knew she was destined for fame. In the Elle interview, she said she had planned to be an orthodontist, but secretly longed to live in a big city such as New York or Los Angeles.

'I remember asking God, Why was I born into this family in South Carolina? she said. 'Which sounds awful. I love my family. But the way I grew up, you go to New York to visit maybe once in your life.'

She visited the Big Apple with a church group during her sophom*ore year at the University of South Carolina and woke at 3 a.m. one morning to go to the Today show where she held up a sign saying 'Will you marry me, Matt Lauer?' Shortly after she changed her major to journalism.

She returns to South Carolina nearly every weekend to look after her mother who is recovering from a stroke.

Her husband moved to New York after their marriage.

He had tried unsuccessfully to break into the NFL as a quarterback following his college career. He eventually went north and joined first the Montreal Alouettes and then the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League as back-up quarterback.

He only suited up three times for the Stampeders. His last match was the 2008 Grey Cup final in which his team beat the Alouettes by 22-14. He retired from football six months later.