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Yahoo
02-05-2025
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Fox News host Steve Doocy to move to Florida as he takes on a new role at the network
Another Fox News personality is headed to the Sunshine State, and possibly Palm Beach County, where he is linked to a property in Jupiter Inlet Colony. Longtime co-host Steve Doocy announced this week he is stepping away from the 'Fox & Friends' morning show and relocating to Florida full time. The 68-year-old was clear he's not retiring, but after decades of waking up at 3:30 a.m. to drive into New York City from New Jersey, he's ready for a later start time. According to Megan Albano, Fox News Media's executive vice president of morning programming and program development, Doocy will be traveling cities across the country where he will co-host from "diners to pickleball courts and more." 'I am not retiring. I'm not leaving the show. I'm still a host, but it's time for a change," Doocy said May 1 on 'Fox & Friends.' Doocy and his wife bought a home in the tony beachside community of Jupiter Inlet Colony in 2014 for $1.01 million. The nearly 2,600-square-foot home with four bedrooms and a pool was quitclaim-deeded to a land trust in 2020 for $10, but it remains homesteaded in Doocy's wife's name, according to the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser. In Florida, having a homestead exemption on a home means you consider it your primary residence. A quitclaim deed is often used for nonsale transactions such as adding a spouse on a title or transferring property within the family or to a trust. Jupiter Inlet Colony is about 17 miles north of West Palm Beach. It was incorporated in 1959 and had a population of 425 in 2023 Doocy follows fellow Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Bret Baier to Florida. Both Hannity and Baier have homes in Palm Beach. Hannity also owns a home in Manalapan. Baier hosts Fox News' "Special Report with Bret Baier" and is the network's chief political anchor. Baier and his wife, Amy, bought their home in 6,700-square-foot home in 2023 for $37 million. Hannity, who hosts "The Sean Hannity Show," owns an oceanfront townhome in Palm Beach and is believed to have used an ownership company in 2024 to buy an ocean-to-lake estate in Manalapan for $23.5 million. Doocy's move to Florida will put him closer to President Donald Trump's residence and private club Mar-a-Lago. High-profile Trump fan Kid Rock also owns a home in Jupiter Inlet Colony. 'I'll be going from the Carolinas to the Keys. From Middle America to Mar-a-Lago. Call me the coast-to-coast host," Doocy said. 'You may never see me in a necktie again.' The home in Jupiter Inlet Colony was built in 1981 and is a ranch-style cinderblock house with a two-car garage — modest compared to the homes of Baier and Hannity. The home isn't waterfront, but is sandwiched between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean. The online real estate brokerage Redfin estimates its current sales value at $2.86 million. Stay up to date on South Florida's sizzling real estate market and sign up for The Dirt weekly newsletter, delivered every Tuesday! Exclusively for Palm Beach Post subscribers. Kimberly Miller is a journalist for The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA Today Network of Florida. She covers real estate, weather, and the environment. Subscribe to The Dirt for a weekly real estate roundup. If you have news tips, please send them to kmiller@ Help support our local journalism, subscribe today. This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Fox News host Steve Doocy, who owns home in Jupiter, moves to Florida
Yahoo
18-04-2025
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Hannity Breaks With Trump On 1 Convenient Issue: 'Pretty Unbelievable To Be Honest'
Fox News host Sean Hannity is breaking with President Donald Trump on one particular issue — a small tax hike for Americans earning over $1 million annually — and boldly argued earlier this week on 'The Sean Hannity Show' that this would hurt the country. 'I just think it's bad for the economy,' he said during Wednesday's episode. 'On the other hand, it seems to go against everything Donald Trump has ever believed in,' Hannity continued. 'I mean, I think he's always understood this. And I've been reading the same things you've been reading, and frankly, I just haven't been believing it.' Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Republicans in the White House, Senate and House are drafting a proposal for a new tax bracket of 40% for people making more than $1 million per year. The income tax bracket currently sits at 37% for anyone earning over $626,350. An anonymous White House official told the outlet that Trump is actually open to the idea. Hannity has long supported Trump on a variety of issues — he even once described Trump climbing into a garbage truck with his name on it in 2014 as an 'iconic, epic moment.' On Wednesday, however, the pundit seemed personally affronted by his potential tax hike. Hannity reportedly makes around $45 million per year. His guest, economist Steve Moore, argued a tax hike would 'split our party.' He pointed to the GOP losing 'everything' after former President George H.W. Bush raised taxes in 1990, and then quoted late journalist Robert Novak in a seeming attempt to make his point. 'He used to say the only reason God put Republicans on the earth is to cut our taxes,' said Moore, with Hannity — in continued shock about a 3% tax income increase — replying, 'Pretty unbelievable to be honest.' 'I mean, what Republicans would go forward with a tax increase when they should be making the Trump tax cuts permanent, eliminating tax on tips, Social Security and overtime?' Hannity added. 'Because that's what the president promised.' He continued: 'Why would they go in any other direction?' Wednesday's report suggested one potential reason: to signal that the GOP 'is seriously considering ideas to raise taxes on the rich.' Whether this would even make a dent with critics of their deportation scandals or threats to free speech remains unclear. Trump Torched On Social Media For Comment About Congo: 'I Don't Know What That Is' Bill Maher Says Breaking Bread With President Trump Makes Him A 'Hero' Trump Imposes Trillions Of Dollars In New Taxes On Americans
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Business
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Hannity Breaks With Trump On 1 Convenient Issue: 'Pretty Unbelievable To Be Honest'
Fox News host Sean Hannity is breaking with President Donald Trump on one particular issue — a small tax hike for Americans earning over $1 million annually — and boldly argued earlier this week on 'The Sean Hannity Show' that this would hurt the country. 'I just think it's bad for the economy,' he said during Wednesday's episode. 'On the other hand, it seems to go against everything Donald Trump has ever believed in,' Hannity continued. 'I mean, I think he's always understood this. And I've been reading the same things you've been reading, and frankly, I just haven't been believing it.' Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Republicans in the White House, Senate and House are drafting a proposal for a new tax bracket of 40% for people making more than $1 million per year. The income tax bracket currently sits at 37% for anyone earning over $626,350. An anonymous White House official told the outlet that Trump is actually open to the idea. Hannity has long supported Trump on a variety of issues — he even once described Trump climbing into a garbage truck with his name on it in 2014 as an 'iconic, epic moment.' On Wednesday, however, the pundit seemed personally affronted by his potential tax hike. Hannity reportedly makes around $45 million per year. His guest, economist Steve Moore, argued a tax hike would 'split our party.' He pointed to the GOP losing 'everything' after former President George H.W. Bush raised taxes in 1990, and then quoted late journalist Robert Novak in a seeming attempt to make his point. 'He used to say the only reason God put Republicans on the earth is to cut our taxes,' said Moore, with Hannity — in continued shock about a 3% tax income increase — replying, 'Pretty unbelievable to be honest.' 'I mean, what Republicans would go forward with a tax increase when they should be making the Trump tax cuts permanent, eliminating tax on tips, Social Security and overtime?' Hannity added. 'Because that's what the president promised.' He continued: 'Why would they go in any other direction?' Wednesday's report suggested one potential reason: to signal that the GOP 'is seriously considering ideas to raise taxes on the rich.' Whether this would even make a dent with critics of their deportation scandals or threats to free speech remains unclear. Trump Torched On Social Media For Comment About Congo: 'I Don't Know What That Is' Bill Maher Says Breaking Bread With President Trump Makes Him A 'Hero' Trump Imposes Trillions Of Dollars In New Taxes On Americans
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
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Stephen A Smith v LeBron James turns NBA's narrator into a main character
LeBron James and Stephen A Smith greet each other before a game in 2022. Photograph: MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News/Getty Images Who would win in a fight between LeBron James and Stephen A Smith is a question only Stephen A Smith would think to ask. There has been little avoiding the question since the Los Angeles Lakers superstar confronted ESPN's No 1 personality during a recent game against the New York Knicks. The player was venting his displeasure at Smith for his pointed comments about James's eldest son, and Lakers teammate, Bronny – the 55th pick in last year's NBA draft. Advertisement James approached Smith, a courtside spectator for the game, and appeared to tell him to 'keep my son out of this shit' – a callback to Smith questioning whether Bronny deserved to be on a league roster. Smith went on TV the next day to make clear that he wasn't actually picking on Bronny, the player; he was really calling out LeBron as a bad father for setting a high bar for his son's pro career. Smith would come back to this point often while making the media rounds after signing a $100m ESPN extension. That should have been the end of the argument – but then last week LeBron sat down with Pat McAfee, whose show follows Smith's on ESPN, and dismissed Smith as an ice cream-bingeing, couch-bound fanboy. That set the stage last Thursday for Smith to make his most unhinged ESPN appearance yet. Among other things, he bashed James for skipping the hall of fame induction ceremony for his friend and former teammate Dwyane Wade and for skipping Kobe Bryant's funeral – claims that were made in bad faith, as it turned out. Viewers were quick to remind Smith that James had indeed attended Bryant's funeral, and had a pretty good excuse for missing Wade's ceremony: Bronny had just suffered a cardiac arrest at the time. But the wildest shot by far was the 6ft 1in, 57-year-old Smith saying he 'would have immediately swung on' James if the 6ft 9in, 250lb NBA forward had 'put hands on me.' That was the moment when the sports world realized its narrator had made himself a main character – although Smith did at least have the good sense to admit he would have lost the fight. Smith definitely has main character energy; he's the ESPN omniscient who struts into the arena dressed to the nines while cameras are rolling, just like the players, and cries blasphemy! at the ideas that offend his logic. For a minimum of two hours on weekdays, the native New Yorker can be seen offering up his singular brand of hysterically provocative opinions on ESPN's morning show, First Take. That's when he's not serving up cultural takes on his podcast or entertaining a run for president on The Sean Hannity Show or acting on General Hospital. It's enough to make you wonder if Smith ever sleeps or runs out of steam. I can't knock Smith's hustle. He has been starting arguments as far back as the late-1980s, when he was a scholarship basketball player at Winston-Salem State in North Carolina – a powerhouse historically Black College. Tim Grant, a longtime Winston-Salem hoops assistant, remembers dividing the team between two vans for one far-flung away game, and his boss – the legendary coach Clarence 'Big House' Gaines – picking Smith to ride with him in the one that didn't have a functioning radio. ('He'll talk all the way to Memphis,' Gaines quipped.) While writing for the college paper after his playing career was cut short by a freak knee injury, Smith called for Gaines – who trailed only Kentucky's Adolph Rupp on the NCAA's all-time wins list – to retire. 'But then my dad helped him get his first gig at the Greensboro News & Record, a newspaper,' says Clarence Gaines Jr, a respected former NBA scout. Advertisement Within six years Smith was on the Philadelphia 76ers beat covering Allen Iverson – a close relationship that set the stage for his rise. He broke through at ESPN in 2005 as a talkshow host and NBA analyst, only to wind up out of a job four years later when he and the network couldn't agree on a new contract. He'd spend the next two years in TV wilderness – on CNN one minute weighing in on the government intervention in Wall Street pay practices, on ABC the next playing a bit part as a fixer on America's longest-running soap – before ESPN brought him back as a debate partner for Skip Bayless, another columnist who became a TV blowhard. With Bayless, Smith turned the network from a journalism paragon that once penalized on-air personalities for expressing their political views to the wanton clickbait farm where Smith now measures himself against McAfee – the ex-NFL punter turned $85m show pony who has filled ESPN with frat house energy. Sadly, that includes amplifying dismal rumors about a teenage college student. Still: even within the mad scramble of the sports media hunger games, there's something surreal in seeing Smith – an NBA booster for a TV rights holder – get sucked into a slanging match with the biggest name in the sport. In response to Smith's fighting words, James posted a clip of Smith creakily swinging at a boxing trainer's padded hands. Smith has had many epic rants over the course of long career, but this is the first one that feels truly personal. (Some observers reckon the bad blood goes back to Smith spending years promoting Michael Jordan as the greatest basketball player of all time over James.) It also has James, the most media friendly superstar in sports since he entered the NBA in 2003, acting out of character. The egos in conflict here are unfathomably large. 'I was here before he got here in 2003, and, in all likelihood I'm going to be here when he's gone,' Smith said – as if James isn't also a media mogul in his own right. It's a weird flex coming from a soap opera actor, even if drama is the point. Sport feuds tend not to break out when the athlete and the media star are both at the top of the game. Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell never feuded publicly, but they did have plenty of on-air exchanges full of sharp words and good-natured banter – with Ali getting in the best jabs at Cosell's hairpieces and speaking cadence. And even when Cosell did buck up and say Ali was past his prime as the champ kept on fighting into his late-30s, most saw those blows for what they were: tough love. Advertisement It used to be that if a sports journalist criticized an athlete on the record, they faced them afterward to accept the consequences – so give Smith some credit for making himself available for James's broadside. He could have maintained the higher ground by acknowledging the audacity (to borrow Smith's words) of the most prominent Black man in media calling another Black man who grew up fatherless a bad dad for – checks notes – raising a son who somehow managed to beat the odds and achieve his own NBA dream. Instead, Smith tripled and quadrupled down. Besides, Bronny's rookie struggles don't mean he doesn't belong in the NBA – players often take a while to find their feet. Reed Sheppard and Tidjane Salaun, who went No 3 and No 6 overall in last year's draft, have spent time in the G-League alongside Bronny, and Smith hasn't spent significant airtime interrogating their pro prospects. No, LeBron hooking up his kid with his job isn't the best argument for fair play – even though LeBron has pulled that move before with his high school teammates to gangbusters effect. But the second round of the draft is kind of a crapshoot anyway. The Lakers could've done worse than pick Bronny over a similar caliber player who hasn't been in their orbit for the past six years. And after Bronny's furious run to close the G-league season, who can't say the Lakers were justified in taking the flyer? There's a saying in journalism: never become the story. By beefing with James, Smith shows why his opinions shouldn't be regarded as anything more than an exercise in making television. The longer he runs his yap, the more he ruins the games by making them all about him. Sports discourse overall is poorer for it.
The Guardian
03-04-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Stephen A Smith v LeBron James turns NBA's narrator into a main character
Who would win in a fight between LeBron James and Stephen A Smith is a question only Stephen A Smith would think to ask. There has been little avoiding the question since the Los Angeles Lakers superstar confronted ESPN's No 1 personality during a recent game against the New York Knicks. The player was venting his displeasure at Smith for his pointed comments about James's eldest son, and Lakers teammate, Bronny – the 55th pick in last year's NBA draft. James approached Smith, a courtside spectator for the game, and appeared to tell him to 'keep my son out of this shit' – a callback to Smith questioning whether Bronny deserved to be on a league roster. Smith went on TV the next day to make clear that he wasn't actually picking on Bronny, the player; he was really calling out LeBron as a bad father for setting a high bar for his son's pro career. Smith would come back to this point often while making the media rounds after signing a $100m ESPN extension. That should have been the end of the argument – but then last week LeBron sat down with Pat McAfee, whose show follows Smith's on ESPN, and dismissed Smith as an ice cream-bingeing, couch-bound fanboy. That set the stage last Thursday for Smith to make his most unhinged ESPN appearance yet. Among other things, he bashed James for skipping the hall of fame induction ceremony for his friend and former teammate Dwyane Wade and for skipping Kobe Bryant's funeral – claims that were made in bad faith, as it turned out. Viewers were quick to remind Smith that James had indeed attended Bryant's funeral, and had a pretty good excuse for missing Wade's ceremony: Bronny had just suffered a cardiac arrest at the time. But the wildest shot by far was the 6ft 1in, 57-year-old Smith saying he 'would have immediately swung on' James if the 6ft 9in, 250lb NBA forward had 'put hands on me.' That was the moment when the sports world realized its narrator had made himself a main character – although Smith did at least have the good sense to admit he would have lost the fight. Smith definitely has main character energy; he's the ESPN omniscient who struts into the arena dressed to the nines while cameras are rolling, just like the players, and cries blasphemy! at the ideas that offend his logic. For a minimum of two hours on weekdays, the native New Yorker can be seen offering up his singular brand of hysterically provocative opinions on ESPN's morning show, First Take. That's when he's not serving up cultural takes on his podcast or entertaining a run for president on The Sean Hannity Show or acting on General Hospital. It's enough to make you wonder if Smith ever sleeps or runs out of steam. I can't knock Smith's hustle. He has been starting arguments as far back as the late-1980s, when he was a scholarship basketball player at Winston-Salem State in North Carolina – a powerhouse historically Black College. Tim Grant, a longtime Winston-Salem hoops assistant, remembers dividing the team between two vans for one far-flung away game, and his boss – the legendary coach Clarence 'Big House' Gaines – picking Smith to ride with him in the one that didn't have a functioning radio. ('He'll talk all the way to Memphis,' Gaines quipped.) While writing for the college paper after his playing career was cut short by a freak knee injury, Smith called for Gaines – who trailed only Kentucky's Adolph Rupp on the NCAA's all-time wins list – to retire. 'But then my dad helped him get his first gig at the Greensboro News & Record, a newspaper,' says Clarence Gaines Jr, a respected former NBA scout. Within six years Smith was on the Philadelphia 76ers beat covering Allen Iverson – a close relationship that set the stage for his rise. He broke through at ESPN in 2005 as a talkshow host and NBA analyst, only to wind up out of a job four years later when he and the network couldn't agree on a new contract. He'd spend the next two years in TV wilderness – on CNN one minute weighing in on the government intervention in Wall Street pay practices, on ABC the next playing a bit part as a fixer on America's longest-running soap – before ESPN brought him back as a debate partner for Skip Bayless, another columnist who became a TV blowhard. With Bayless, Smith turned the network from a journalism paragon that once penalized on-air personalities for expressing their political views to the wanton clickbait farm where Smith now measures himself against McAfee – the ex-NFL punter turned $85m show pony who has filled ESPN with frat house energy. Sadly, that includes amplifying dismal rumors about a teenage college student. Still: even within the mad scramble of the sports media hunger games, there's something surreal in seeing Smith – an NBA booster for a TV rights holder – get sucked into a slanging match with the biggest name in the sport. In response to Smith's fighting words, James posted a clip of Smith creakily swinging at a boxing trainer's padded hands. This article includes content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click 'Allow and continue'. Smith has had many epic rants over the course of long career, but this is the first one that feels truly personal. (Some observers reckon the bad blood goes back to Smith spending years promoting Michael Jordan as the greatest basketball player of all time over James.) It also has James, the most media friendly superstar in sports since he entered the NBA in 2003, acting out of character. The egos in conflict here are unfathomably large. 'I was here before he got here in 2003, and, in all likelihood I'm going to be here when he's gone,' Smith said – as if James isn't also a media mogul in his own right. It's a weird flex coming from a soap opera actor, even if drama is the point. Sport feuds tend not to break out when the athlete and the media star are both at the top of the game. Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell never feuded publicly, but they did have plenty of on-air exchanges full of sharp words and good-natured banter – with Ali getting in the best jabs at Cosell's hairpieces and speaking cadence. And even when Cosell did buck up and say Ali was past his prime as the champ kept on fighting into his late-30s, most saw those blows for what they were: tough love. It used to be that if a sports journalist criticized an athlete on the record, they faced them afterward to accept the consequences – so give Smith some credit for making himself available for James's broadside. He could have maintained the higher ground by acknowledging the audacity (to borrow Smith's words) of the most prominent Black man in media calling another Black man who grew up fatherless a bad dad for – checks notes – raising a son who somehow managed to beat the odds and achieve his own NBA dream. Instead, Smith tripled and quadrupled down. Besides, Bronny's rookie struggles don't mean he doesn't belong in the NBA – players often take a while to find their feet. Reed Sheppard and Tidjane Salaun, who went No 3 and No 6 overall in last year's draft, have spent time in the G-League alongside Bronny, and Smith hasn't spent significant airtime interrogating their pro prospects. No, LeBron hooking up his kid with his job isn't the best argument for fair play – even though LeBron has pulled that move before with his high school teammates to gangbusters effect. But the second round of the draft is kind of a crapshoot anyway. The Lakers could've done worse than pick Bronny over a similar caliber player who hasn't been in their orbit for the past six years. And after Bronny's furious run to close the G-league season, who can't say the Lakers were justified in taking the flyer? There's a saying in journalism: never become the story. By beefing with James, Smith shows why his opinions shouldn't be regarded as anything more than an exercise in making television. The longer he runs his yap, the more he ruins the games by making them all about him. Sports discourse overall is poorer for it.
