Tucker Carlson’s wife was spotted out for a walk with her dogs a day after the bombshell news that her husband was booted from Fox News after 14 years on-air.
Susan Andrews Carlson, 53, was seen wearing a pink and white bandeau top with a white and blue striped towel wrapped tightly around her waist on Tuesday.
She protected her skin by wearing a large floppy hat as she walked her dogs on the beach by their multi-million-dollar Florida home.
The mother-of-four was accompanied by a friend as the two appeared to be in conversation as they traversed the sandy beach.
Her husband of 32 years who was said to be ‘blindsided’ by the news of his firing on Monday, was not in tow on her stroll.
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.
Susan Andrews Carlson was seen wearing a pink and white bandeau top with a white and blue striped towel wrapped tightly around her waist on Tuesday
She was accompanied by a friend, who walked another of her dogs, and the two appeared to be in conversation as they traverse the sandy beach
She protected her skin by wearing a large floppy hat as she walked her dogs on the beach by their multi-million-dollar Florida home
She was not accompanied by her husband on her beach stroll
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. In 2023, they bought a $5.5million million home on Gasparilla Island in Boca Grande, Florida, and the adjacent property for $2.9million.
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.
The blindsided Fox megastar was caught telling viewers: ‘We’ll be back on Monday’ before signing off on Friday night.
Her husband, Tucker (pictured on his last show on Friday), was fired from Fox News on Monday after being on the network for 14 years.
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 and his wife (right) 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
In 2023, they bought a $5.5million million home on Gasparilla Island in Boca Grande, Florida, and the adjacent property for $2.9million, which she is seen walking outside of
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.
Carlson (pictured in 2003) was said to be ‘blindsided’ by the news of his firing on Monday
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.
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