Elisabeth DelPadre Hasselbeck (; born May 28, 1977) is an American retired
television personality
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and
talk show host
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* List of game show hosts
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. Hasselbeck rose to prominence in 2001 as a contestant on the
second season of the
American version of ''
Survivor'', where she finished in fourth place. She married
NFL
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quarterback
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Tim Hasselbeck
Timothy Thomas Hasselbeck (born April 6, 1979) is an American sports journalist and former American football quarterback who currently works as an analyst for ESPN. He played eight seasons in the NFL with the New York Giants, Washington Redskins, ...
the following year.
From 2003 to 2013, Hasselbeck appeared as a co-host on the
ABC
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daytime talk show ''
The View'', where she became known for her
conservative
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views on sociopolitical issues. With her co-hosts
Joy Behar
Josephine Victoria "Joy" Behar (; née Occhiuto) is an American comedian, television host, actress, and writer. She co-hosts the ABC daytime talk show '' The View'', where she is the only original panelist still regularly appearing. She hosted ...
,
Whoopi Goldberg
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,
Sherri Shepherd
Sherri Shepherd (born April 22, 1967) is an American actress, comedian, author, broadcaster, and television personality. She currently hosts the daily syndicated daytime talk show, ''Sherri''. From 2007 to 2014, Shepherd was a co-host of the day ...
, and
Barbara Walters
Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American broadcast journalist and television personality. Known for her interviewing ability and popularity with viewers, Walters appeared as a host of numerous television programs, including ...
, she was awarded the
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host
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In the lists below, the winner of ...
during the
36th Daytime Emmy Awards
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in 2009. Thereafter, Hasselbeck was a co-host on ''
Fox & Friends
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'' from 2013 to 2015, and has since retired from television.
Early life and education
Hasselbeck was born Elisabeth DelPadre Filarski on May 28, 1977, in
Cranston, Rhode Island
Cranston, once known as Pawtuxet, is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island. The official population of the city in the 2020 United States Census was 82,934, making it the second largest in the state. The center of population of Rhode Island i ...
.
She is the daughter of architect Kenneth Filarski and school teacher and lawyer Elizabeth DelPadre.
Her brother, Kenneth, Jr., is a practicing attorney. Their father is of Polish descent and their mother is of Italian ancestry.
Hasselbeck was raised
Catholic
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and attended St. Mary School in Cranston, followed by
St. Mary Academy – Bay View in
East Providence, where she graduated in 1995.
She then attended
Boston College
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, where she captained the women's
softball
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team for two seasons, winning consecutive
Big East
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championships. With concentrations on large scale paintings and industrial design, Hasselbeck graduated with a
BFA in 1999.
Hasselbeck started working for
Puma in 1998, while attending Boston College. After graduation, she worked for Puma shoes as a member of its design team before her television career.
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Television career
2001–02: ''Survivor: The Australian Outback''
In 2001, Hasselbeck (then Elisabeth Filarski) was cast in '' Survivor: The Australian Outback'', and was originally a member of the Kucha tribe. She avoided being voted out at the first Tribal Council which her tribe attended. She then went on a winning streak but lost once again in episode five, where they voted out Kimmi. In episode six, Hasselbeck's tribemate Michael Skupin
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fell into the campfire and had to be medically evacuated, therefore sending the Kucha and Ogakor tribes into the merge with five members each. When the merge came, she lasted almost nine hours in the first individual immunity challenge in which contestants had to stand on a perch in the water for as long as possible. When the first vote came, her tribemate Jeff was voted out due to previous votes cast against him. This led to another Kucha member Alicia being voted out and sent to the jury. Filarski was next on the block when the biggest threat in her original tribe, Nick, won immunity, but she swayed the votes of Ogakor members Tina Wesson
Tina Marie Wesson (born December 26, 1960) is an American nurse, motivational speaker, and reality TV personality who won $1,000,000 as the winner of the second season of '' Survivor'', on '' Survivor: The Australian Outback'' in 2001. Wesson re ...
and Colby Donaldson
Colby Donaldson (born April 1, 1974) is an American television personality. He became the runner-up of '' Survivor: The Australian Outback'' (2001). He then competed on two more ''Survivor'' seasons, '' Survivor: All-Stars'' (2004) and '' Survi ...
her way, and had Jerri Manthey
Jerri Lynn Manthey (born September 5, 1970) is an American actress and television personality. She was a contestant in ''Survivor: The Australian Outback'', where she placed 8th, ''Survivor: All-Stars, All-Stars'', where she placed 10th and ''Su ...
voted out. At the final five, her closest ally throughout the entire game, Rodger Bingham
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, was voted out. She then became the sole remaining Kucha member and was voted out, coming in fourth overall. She was one of four votes for Tina to win. She was one of two people who were asked to return for '' Survivor: All-Stars'' and declined, the other being Colleen Haskell
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of '' Survivor: Borneo.''
Hasselbeck was a judge at the Miss Teen USA 2001
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pageant. From 2002 to 2003, she hosted the Style Network's '' The Look for Less'' where she helped find stylish clothes for bargain prices.[
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2003–13: ''The View''
Although Hasselbeck previously saw herself as a "behind the scenes" kind of person and not interested in a career in television, or playing pundit, her agent was eager to showcase her competitive client and she auditioned for '' The View'' in 2003. Hasselbeck was one of a number of women who guest-hosted to replace outgoing ''The View'' co-host Lisa Ling
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, who left the show at the end of 2002. She became a permanent co-host on November 24, 2003.
Hasselbeck typically represented the conservative
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position on ''The View''.
On August 2, 2006, Hasselbeck got into a heated debate in which she strongly opposed the Food and Drug Administration
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's plan to sell the "morning-after pill
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" as an over-the-counter drug
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. Hasselbeck stated, "I believe that life begins at the moment of conception." She said the over-the-counter distribution of the pill should be banned even in cases of rape
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and incest
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, because "life still has value." Hasselbeck argued that advocates of the drug use the "rape or incest" exception as a "bait-and-switch
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" distraction from the goal of making it universally accessible. She argued that if the "rape or incest" exception were all advocates cared about, they would not support its over-the-counter status. On air, moderator Barbara Walters advised Hasselbeck to calm down after she became emotional about the topic. When the live show went to a commercial break, Hasselbeck ripped up her cue cards and stormed off the set. In an expletive-laden off-air conversation picked up on a live mic, Hasselbeck explained to co-host Joy Behar that she did not appreciate being reprimanded on live TV by Walters for being passionate about the topic. She threatened to quit, but producer Bill Geddie convinced her to come back to the set. As the show came back from the break, Walters and Elisabeth appeared together on a couch, awkwardly making up for the situation. Hasselbeck hugged Walters, sat on her lap, and ended up backing off from her threat to quit.
On May 23, 2007, Hasselbeck was involved in a heated on-air argument with co-host Rosie O'Donnell
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concerning the war in Iraq
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, which she supported and O'Donnell opposed. When O'Donnell asked, "655,000 Iraqi civilians dead. Who are the terrorists?" O'Donnell was criticized by conservative
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commentators (including Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly) for her question and she (O'Donnell) complained about Hasselbeck's unwillingness to defend O'Donnell's statements in the controversy that followed. Hasselbeck responded "defend your own insinuations," adding that she should not have to defend anyone else's words for them, especially when that person has a forum in which to present a defense.
In August 2009, Hasselbeck, along with her co-hosts Goldberg, Joy Behar
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, Sherri Shepherd
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, and Barbara Walters
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, won the Daytime Emmy Award
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for Outstanding Talk Show Host. It follows over a decade of nominations for ''The View'' with no win. None of the co-hosts of the show was in Los Angeles to collect the award. For the first time, the show had not been nominated for both Outstanding Talk Show and Outstanding Talk Show Host.
On March 8, 2013, there were widespread media reports that Hasselbeck was going to be fired from the show, effective at the end of the season, allegedly because of market research polling that showed viewers thought her views were too conservative. However, on the March 11, 2013, episode of the show, Walters said that the rumors were "particularly false" and that there are "no plans for Elisabeth to leave this show".
On July 9, 2013, ABC confirmed that Hasselbeck would be leaving ''The View'' to join ''Fox & Friends
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''. Her last day on ''The View'' was July 10, 2013.
Since departing Hasselbeck returned on May 15, 2014 along with other former co-hosts to celebrate Barbara Walters retirement. She returned to the show as a guest on March 26, 2019 where she confirmed for the first time that she had been fired in 2013 On March 11, 2020 Hasselbeck served as a guest co-host. She also returned in August 2022 as a guest-co-host, as part of the show's 25th anniversary season, in which former hosts made return appearances.
2013–15: ''Fox & Friends''
On September 16, 2013, Hasselbeck joined the Fox News
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morning show, ''Fox & Friends'' as a co-host, replacing Gretchen Carlson
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. By that November, the show's ratings had grown by 9 percent, and increased 10 percent in viewership among people ages 25–54. In November 2015, Hasselbeck announced that she would retire and leave ''Fox & Friends'' at the end of the year in order to spend more time with her family, saying she wanted to "give them the best of me, not the rest of me". Her final day in Fox News
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was on December 22, 2015.
Personal life
On July 6, 2002, Hasselbeck married her college boyfriend, professional football
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quarterback
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Tim Hasselbeck
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. They have a daughter, Grace Elisabeth (born in 2005), and two sons, Taylor Thomas (born in 2007), and Isaiah Timothy (born in 2009).
Hasselbeck is a Christian, and in August 2014, she condemned the persecution of Christians
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in Iraq
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, as well as the removal of Bible
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s from hotel rooms in the United States. Despite her parents being liberals, Hasselbeck is a Republican
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. She was a speaker at the Republican National Convention
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s in both 2004
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Events January
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and 2008
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. On October 26, 2008, Hasselbeck appeared at Republican
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rallies in Florida
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, introducing vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin
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.
Hasselbeck is a supporter of breast cancer
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awareness initiatives in the form of an Internet-only PSA
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on breast cancer diagnosis.
Celiac disease
Hasselbeck stated she is living with celiac disease
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. She has written a book on the subject, ''The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide'', which has appeared on several best-seller lists. On June 23, 2009, a lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Massachusetts alleging that her book was plagiarized from a self-published book by Susan Hasset. Hasselbeck released a statement calling the allegations baseless. The lawsuit was dismissed in November 2009 when the plaintiff's lawyer declined to pursue it, saying to the press that he believed some degree of plagiarism occurred, but it was not sufficient to justify monetary damages. In 2011, Hasselbeck introduced NoGii, her line of gluten-free nutritional products for children and adults.
Filmography
Published works
* ''The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide'' (2008)
* ''Deliciously G-Free: Food So Flavorful They'll Never Believe It's Gluten-Free'' (2012) [
* ''Point of View: A Fresh Look at Work, Faith, and Freedom'' (2019, WaterBrook; )
]
See also
* List of people diagnosed with celiac disease
References
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1977 births
Living people
American Christians
American food company founders
American food writers
American industrial designers
American people of Italian descent
American people of Polish descent
American television talk show hosts
Boston College Eagles softball players
Businesspeople from Rhode Island
Conservatism in the United States
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host winners
Diet food advocates
Fox News people
Former Roman Catholics
People from Cranston, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Republicans
Softball players from Rhode Island
Survivor (American TV series) contestants
Television personalities from Rhode Island
Writers from Rhode Island