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Hasselbeck at The Heart Truth's Red Dress Collection Fashion Show, 2010
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Born |
Elisabeth DelPadre Filarski May 28, 1977 Cranston, Rhode Island, U.S. |
Education | St. Mary Academy – Bay View |
Alma mater | Boston College |
Occupation | Talk show host |
Years active | 2001–present |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Tim Hasselbeck (m. 2002) |
Children | 3 |
Elisabeth DelPadre Hasselbeck (née Filarski; born May 28, 1977) is an American television personality and talk show host. Born and raised in Cranston, Rhode Island, she attended St. Mary Academy – Bay View as a teenager and graduated from Boston College in 1999. In January 2001, Hasselbeck rose to prominence as a contestant on the second season of the American version of Survivor, where she finished in fourth place. She married NFL quarterback Tim Hasselbeck in July 2002.
In November 2003, Hasselbeck replaced Lisa Ling as the fourth co-host on The View. With her co-hosts Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepherd, and Barbara Walters, she was awarded the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host during the 36th Daytime Emmy Awards. After nearly ten years, Hasselbeck left the series in July 2013. She became the co-host of Fox & Friends that September. In November 2015, Hasselbeck announced she would leave Fox & Friends in order to spend more time with her family; December 22, 2015 was her last day on the show.
Elisabeth DelPadre Filarski was born on May 28, 1977, in Cranston, Rhode Island. She is the daughter of Catholic-school teacher and lawyer Elizabeth DelPadre and architect Kenneth Filarski. Her brother, Kenneth, Jr., is a practicing attorney and aspiring musician. Their father is of Polish descent and their mother is of Italian ancestry.