Tucker Carlson’s wife appears carefree day after Fox host was ousted

• Susan Andrews Carlson spotted near the couple’s home in Fort Myers, Florida
• Tucker, 53, was fired by Fox on Monday in a shock announcement 

While the cable news world was sent into a meltdown by her husband’s firing and his loyal viewers searched for somewhere new to turn their attention, Tucker Carlson’s wife Susan Andrews appeared to be taking it all in her stride yesterday while walking her dog near the beach. 

A fresh-from-the-ocean Andrews, 53, was spotted walking the couple’s dog with a friend near their Florida beach pad. 

Soppy-haired and with a towel wrapped round her waist, Andrews had not a care in the world as she strolled with a friend towards the family house. Tucker has not been seen since his unceremonious firing, not has he given any public comment on it. 

It was revealed yesterday that he received just 10 minutes notice before Fox announced his fate to the rest of the world. Tucker and his wife purchased the first of their two homes in 2020 for $2.9million. 

They recently purchased a second property directly next door for $5.5million.  

Carlson and his wife met at a Rhode Island boarding school and he proposed to her in his senior year of college, marrying in 1991. They share four children together – Buckley, Dorothy, Lillie, and Hopie. 

They raised their children in Virginia, before buying property in Washington DC – which has since sold after protesters showed up to their door in 2018, and in Maine and Florida. 

Buckley has gone on to work in the government, working as an intern at the White House during Donald Trump’s Administration and as a staffer for Indiana’s Jim Banks. 

While Susan was carefree, Tucker has been bunkering down since his firing. 

The only comment the firebrand host has made so far is to Politico in response to reports Pentagon officials – who were among his favorite targets on the show – were celebrating his ousting.

‘Ha! I’ll bet,’ said Tucker in a brief quip. 

Both he and Don Lemon, who was fired by CNN on the same day, are said to have retained Bryan Feldman, a Pitbull-style entertainment attorney, to negotiate their exits. 

Carlson was being paid a reported $20million-a-year by Fox and still has a number of years left on his contract. 

While Fox is yet to confirm the reason for his departure, it has been reported that a combination of Carlson’s derogatory remarks about senior News Corp executives and a recent discrimination lawsuit filed against him were to blame. 

Fox is vigorously fighting the lawsuit filed by Abby Grossberg, a former booking producer who alleges misogyny, sexism and bullying within Tucker’s staff and while working on Maria Baritomo’s show. 

Tucker Carlson, who earned upwards of $20 million annually for his primetime work on Fox News, was ousted from the major news network by owner Rupert Murdoch. 

Murdoch dropped the 53-year-old from his show Tucker Carlson Tonight just days after the network spent $787.5 million settling a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion – the firm behind the systems that voters had used in the last presidential election.

While insiders say the lawsuit was pivotal to his dismissal, Murdoch is understood to have been concerned by Carlson’s public embrace of the idea that the January 6, 2021 attack on Congress was instigated by the government.

Analysts also suggest his continued use of the word ‘c**t’ may have played a role in his sacking from the network.

Carlson was not told why he was being fired when he was called on Monday by Fox CEO Suzanne Scott, who reportedly just told him the decision was made ‘from above’. But insiders claim Lachlan Murdoch issued the ruling on Friday night.

He was ousted in part because network executives were angry at his bitter criticism of them following the 2020 presidential election, according to The Wall Street Journal – which, like Fox, is owned by Murdoch.

Carlson divided opinion – and drew fierce criticism from the left – while on-air with his polemics on everything from the 2020 presidential election to the Black Lives Matter movement.

But he hasn’t always been known as a divisive right-wing firebrand.

His career, which began in the mid-1990s, has included work for a wide range of publications, including a long stint at CNN, and he’s also the author of several books.

As a print journalist, he wrote for publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and Esquire. But, at the time, there were limits to who he was willing to work for.

In 1999, Carlson told how he’d feared he’d be ‘written off as a wing nut’ if he joined The American Spectator, a conservative magazine.

His TV break came in 2000 when he joined CNN and co-hosted The Spin Room.

Carlson was recognizable by his trademark bow tie. 

He started wearing the neckwear in 1984 while a student at prep school – and only dropped it in the 2000s after a stranger who took issue with the attire ‘screamed obscenities’ at him while walking through Penn Station in New York.

In 2004, while hosting Crossfire on CNN, Carlson was given a dressing down by comedian and commentator Jon Stewart during a segment that’s regularly dug out by Carlson’s critics.

Stewart accused the show and its hosts of ‘hurting America’ and mocked Carlson for his bow tie. ‘You’re doing theater, when you should be doing debate, which would be great,’ he said. ‘What you do is not honest. What you do is partisan hackery.’

Stewart also said Carlson needed to go to journalism school. Crossfire was axed several months later.

Carlson also spent three years at MSNBC and appeared on Dancing with the Stars in 2006 before he joined Fox News in 2009.

It was here that Carlson became a household name through Tucker Carlson Tonight, which became the network’s flagship show and was often the highest-rated show on cable news TV. 

In 2022, it averaged about 3.3 million viewers per show.