Jedediah Louisa Bila is an American TV host, commentator, and author. She has also worked as a radio presenter and columnist. She is best known as being a former co-host on the TV program The View, as well as being an anchor on Fox & Friends’ weekend editions.
In April 2020, she announced that she and her husband had contracted coronavirus and that they were recovering from the illness. They recovered and are well as of December 2020.
Early Life and Education
Jedediah was born on 29 January 1979 in Brooklyn, New York, US. Her mother taught acting classes at home, while her father worked in a coin and stamp shop.
She attended Wagner College and graduated with a major in Spanish and a minor in Business Administration. After her bachelor’s degree, she enrolled at Columbia University for a Masters degree in Spanish.
Career
Bila began her career as a teacher in 2005 in New York. She taught Spanish, creative writing, and improvisation to students in high school, middle school, and college. She also worked as an academic dean in NYC at a private school.
Bila changed her career path from education to television commentary in 2009. That year she wrote a review of the book ‘Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto’ by Mark Levin on her blog. This review was read on air by radio host Levin, which in turn prompted Fox News TV host Sean Hannity to send out an invite to her to appear on his show ‘Hannity.’
In 2013, Jedediah began working as a contributor at Fox News. In 2014, she began making appearances as a panelist on ‘Outnumbered’, a daytime talk show. She also made regular appearances on Fox News talk show ‘The Five’.
In 2016, Bila left Fox News and joined ABC to become a permanent co-host on the daytime talk show ‘The View’. Most of the co-hosts were liberals and she was presented as the conservative commentator on the show. She, along with her co-hosts, got a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for it in 2017. She left the show in September 2017.
Bila joined Fox News once again in November 2018 as a contributor. She was announced as a permanent co-host of the TV show ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ in April 2019.
Personal Life and Trivia
- Jedediah dated Jeremy Scher for a long time, before getting engaged in 2017, and finally getting married in February 17, 2018. The wedding ceremony was conducted in Huntington, New York; it was a private affair and only 60 guests were invited to the occasion.
- The couple became parents to a boy in November 2019.
- She has authored two books, the first one in 2011 titled ‘Outnumbered: Chronicles of a Manhattan Conservative’ and the second in 2018 named ‘#DONOTDISTURB: How I Ghosted My Cell Phone to Take Back My Life’.
- She is 5 feet 5 inches and has described herself as being more inclined towards libertarian politics.
- Her nickname is Jeddy. As of 2020, her net worth is around $1.5 million.
- She has been an ardent supporter of Trump. She supported him even when he mocked a disabled person on stage; she was heavily criticized for her support.
- She has contributed to columns on varied media platforms like Breitbart.com, The Daily Caller, etc., on different topics such as media, politics, music, fitness, and culture.