In a transfer that made Ainsley Earhardt and Sean Hannity’s uncomfortable age hole ever extra evident, the “Fox & Pals” co-host revealed her fiance’s pet identify for her is “sunshine.” That is as a result of she “wakes up America” and by no means stops smiling, he defined to the Day by day Mail in July. Hannity could not have picked a extra boomer nickname for his gal if he tried. As cringy as we could discover it, it appears to show that they’re old style. “She’s Gen X, not Gen Z — she grew up on the identical sentimental language,” Anthony Recenello, courting and relationship coach, YouTube character, and TV host, solely tells Nicki Swift.

However his pet identify for Earhardt is not the primary time the Fox Information anchor inadvertently aged himself. In a Might 2025 Instagram video, Hannity’s dad bod made his age hole with Earhardt look worse as he sported unflatteringly low pants that showcased his bulging midsection. It definitely would not assist his case that Earhardt cannot give up body-hugging mini clothes that put her killer legs and physique on full show. Hannity is 15 years older than his fiancee, and it exhibits.

Regardless of their variations, Earhardt and Hannity discover numerous widespread floor of their conservatism. Their engagement at a Palm Seashore church proved that. “He walked as much as the altar, went down on one knee, pulled out a hoop field and he proposed to me,” Earhardt informed the Day by day Mail. Figuring out what we find out about them, it would not shock us that Hannity has a cheeky nickname for Earhardt. 

Ainsley Earhardt in all probability would not roll her eyes every time she solutions her telephone to listen to Sean Hannity’s voice exclaim, “Hi there, Sunshine!” She went into the connection understanding full effectively what era he belonged to. “Let’s be sincere, if she’s courting Sean Hannity, she’s in all probability not cringing at old style pet names,” Anthony Recenello tells Nicki Swift. “She seemingly finds consolation in the identical type of outdated affection as his outdated rhetoric. It isn’t a generational conflict — it is alignment.”

We could not absolutely perceive it, however Recenello explains that it is not unusual for folks to search out consolation of their important different’s era, whether or not youthful or older. “Age-gap {couples} needn’t meet within the center — they simply have to get pleasure from one another’s world,” he says. If Earhardt and Hannity had fully completely different concepts impressed by their generations, the state of affairs would in all probability be extra difficult, however not not possible. “If one’s thought of an amazing date is dinner and Sinatra, and the opposite’s into pop-ups and playlists, it solely works if they really just like the distinction,” Recenello explains.

That does not appear to be the case with Earhardt and Hannity. Whereas he is a boomer by means of and thru, Earhardt’s concepts align higher with the era that preceded hers than the one which adopted. In any case, it was their sturdy Christian religion that introduced them collectively. “Relationship ‘cringe’ occurs while you’re forcing compatibility as a substitute of simply seeing if the items already match,” Recenello says. And Earhardt matches completely effectively in Hannity’s old style world.