Kat Timpf

{{short description|American television personality (born 1988)}}

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| name = Kat Timpf

| image = Kat Timpf (51250642134) (cropped).jpg

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| caption = Timpf in 2021

| birth_name = Katherine Clare Timpf

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1988|10|29|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

| party = Independent / Libertarian{{cite news |last= |first= |title=Fox News' Kat Timpf on Trump, Harris and how binary thinking ruins politics |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/09/08/fox-news-kat-timpf-trump-harris-binary-thinking-politics/74921458007/ |work=USA Today |date=September 8, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2025}}

| alma mater = Hillsdale College (BA)

| occupation = Television personality

| known_for = Gutfeld!, Fox News Specialists

| children = 1

| parents =

| spouse = {{marriage|Cameron Friscia|2021}}

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Katherine Clare Timpf ({{IPAc-en|t|ɪ|m|f}}; born October 29, 1988)Timpf, Kat (July 1, 2021). "[https://mobile.twitter.com/KatTimpf?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Kat Timpf Twitter]." Twitter. Retrieved on July 1, 2021.Timpf, Kat (June 30, 2021). "[https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dems-republicans-defund-the-police-problem-kat-timpf Kat Timpf: Dems blaming Republicans for 'defund the police' is sure sign of bigger problem]." Fox News. Retrieved on July 1, 2021. is an American libertarian columnist, television personality, reporter, and comedian. She is a regular panelist on Fox News Channel's Gutfeld! and appears as a contributor on various other Fox News shows. In 2017, Timpf co-hosted Fox News Specialists alongside Eric Bolling and Eboni K. Williams. Beginning in 2019, she has hosted the Fox Nation show Sincerely, Kat.{{Cite web|url=https://wwnc.iheart.com/content/2025-02-26-fox-news-anchor-reveals-surprising-cancer-diagnosis/|title=FOX News Anchor Reveals Surprising Cancer Diagnosis|website=News Radio 570 WWNC|date=February 26, 2025}}

Early life and education

Timpf is from Detroit, Michigan. She graduated magna cum laude in 2010 from Hillsdale College with a B.A. in English.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tfas.org/NovakFellowships/past-fellowship-winners|title=America's Future Foundation {{!}} Great Opportunity for Journalists: Novak Fellowship|website=americasfuture.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117015454/http://www.tfas.org/NovakFellowships/past-fellowship-winners|archive-date=November 17, 2015|access-date=October 24, 2015|df=mdy-all}}

Career

Timpf worked for the Leadership Institute's CampusReform.org in Arlington, Virginia. She has worked as a digital editor for The Washington Times, as the news anchor for NASA's Third Rock Radio, and as a producer and reporter for Total Traffic Network in Santa Ana, California.{{better source|date=March 2025}} Timpf was a 2012 Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program grant award recipient through The Fund for American Studies, and completed a project titled, “As California Goes, So Goes the Nation: The Consequences of Following Golden State Policy.”

Timpf has appeared on television and radio programs, including America Live with Megyn Kelly, Your World with Neil Cavuto,{{Cite web|title = This Fox News Reporter Called Millennial Women "F**king Morons"|url = http://mic.com/articles/119018/this-fox-news-reporter-called-millennial-women-f-king-morons#.ZZLQNJBVF|website= Mic| date=May 22, 2015 |access-date = November 9, 2015}} Fox and Friends, Red Eye,{{Citation|title = Red Eye : FOXNEWSW : June 11, 2014 12:00am-1:01am PDT: Free Streaming|date = June 11, 2014|url = https://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20140611_070000_Red_Eye?q=red+eye#start/900/end/960|access-date = November 13, 2015}} Stossel, Gutfeld!,{{Cite web|title = How did millennials watch the second GOP debate?|url = http://video.foxnews.com/v/4497792062001/how-did-millennials-watch-the-second-gop-debate/?#sp=show-clips|website=Fox News|date = September 20, 2015|access-date = November 12, 2015}} The Five, Outnumbered, The Big Weekend Show and The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.{{Citation|title = The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore : COM : April 9, 2015 9:53am-10:24am PDT: Free Streaming|date = April 9, 2015|url = https://archive.org/details/COM_20150409_165300_The_Nightly_Show_With_Larry_Wilmore?q=timpf#start/1380/end/1440|access-date = November 13, 2015}} Timpf has been a contributor to Orange County Register, Investor's Business Daily, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, International Business Times, and The Washington Times, and a comedian on the morning drive radio show on Baltimore's 98 Rock.

In November 2015, Timpf said that she received death threats after making satirical remarks about the Star Wars fandom.{{Cite web|last=Towers |first=Andrea |url=https://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/25/fox-news-star-wars |title=Fox News contributor gets death threats for mocking 'Star Wars' fans |publisher=EW.com |date=November 25, 2015 |access-date=March 18, 2016}}

In 2016 and 2017, she contributed to the Barstool Sports website.{{Cite web|last1=Portnoy|first1=Dave|title=Oh No...That's Kat Timpf's Music!|url=http://www.barstoolsports.com/boston/oh-no-thats-kat-timpfs-music/|website=Barstool Sports}} She hosted a weekly podcast called The Kat Timpf Show, in which she talks to a guest about random subjects, including her personal life.{{Cite web|title=The Kat Timpf Show|url=http://www.podcastone.com/the-kat-timpf-show|website=podcastone}}

On May 1, 2017, Timpf became a co-host for Fox News Channel's afternoon show called Fox News Specialists with co-hosts Eric Bolling and Eboni K. Williams.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/fox-news-specialists-eric-bolling-1202402701/|title= Fox News Launches New 'Specialists' Show at 5 P.M.|date=April 28, 2017|website=variety.com|access-date=May 5, 2017}} Fox News Specialists was canceled on September 8, 2017, after Bolling was fired by the network for alleged sexual misconduct.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/business/media/fox-news-ousts-eric-bolling-after-probe-into-lewd-text-messages.html|title=Fox News Ousts Eric Bolling After Probe Into Lewd Text Messages|last=Steel|first=Emily|date=September 8, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 8, 2017}}

Timpf co-hosted the weekly Fox News Radio podcast Tyrus and Timpf with professional wrestler Tyrus from 2018 through 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://radio.foxnews.com/podcast/tyrus-and-timpf/|title=Tyrus and Timpf|website=FOX News Radio|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-24}}

On February 8, 2023, Timpf announced on Gutfeld! that she had written a book titled You Can't Joke About That. The book was released on April 18, 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/KatTimpf/status/1623546107434356736?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet|title=Twitter}} It became a New York Times Bestseller,{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2023/05/07/hardcover-nonfiction/|title=Hardcover Nonfiction Books - Best Sellers - Books - May 7, 2023 - The New York Times|work=The New York Times |via=NYTimes.com}} as did Timpf’s second book, I Used to Like You Until…, which came out September 10, 2024.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dvyEAAAQBAJ|title=I Used to Like You Until...: (How Binary Thinking Divides Us)|first=Kat|last=Timpf|date=September 10, 2024|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-6680-6729-1 |via=Google Books}}{{better source|date=March 2025}}

Timpf served as a regular host of the weekend comedy show Fox News Saturday Night June 2023 through December 2023.{{Cite web |date=2023-08-20 |title=Kat Timpf: This seems too terrible to be true {{!}} Fox News Video |url=https://www.foxnews.com/video/6334724977112 |access-date=2023-08-21 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}}

In 2023, Timpf was selected for the New Power New York List by Variety.{{Cite web |date=2023-09-28 |title=The New Power of New York List 2023 |url=https://variety.com/lists/new-power-new-york-list-2023/ |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}

In 2024, Timpf partnered with the charity Tunnels to Towers to sell shirts to benefit families of veterans killed in the line of duty.{{Cite web |date=2024-05-17 |title=Kat Timpf teams up with Tunnel to Towers to help families of fallen heroes {{!}} Fox News Video |url=https://www.foxnews.com/video/6353088444112 |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}} In the same year, Timpf went on her “I Used to Like You” comedy tour, which included a stop at the Scherr Forum Theatre in Thousand Oaks, California.{{Cite web |last=Lerman |first=Ali |date=2024-09-12 |title=Kat Timpf on battling trolls, embracing pregnancy and writing a book about being written off for her views |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-09-12/kat-timpf-new-book-i-used-to-like-you-until-scherr-forum |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}

Ideology

Timpf is a libertarian and believes in limited government, no involvement in economic policy, and allowing social decisions to be made by the individual. According to Timpf, “there is something about me for everyone to hate, but there is also something about me for everyone to agree on.”{{Cite news |url=http://www.hillsdalecollegian.com/2015/10/katherine-timpf-qa-palapala-palington/ |title=At Homecoming with Fox News' Katherine Timpf |work=The Hillsdale Collegian |date=October 29, 2015 |access-date=December 30, 2015}}

Personal life

Timpf lives in Manhattan. She was raised as a Roman Catholic and remained a devout Catholic until the age of 17, when she moved away from the faith.{{Cite web |website=Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/KatTimpf/status/1299185857061163009 |title=Katherine Timpf on her faith as a teenager. |date=August 28, 2020 |access-date=March 29, 2023}}

In 2024, Timpf revealed that she has been romantically involved with women as well as men.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/fox-news-kat-timpf-book-i-used-to-like-you-until-1236133025/|title=Fox News Pundit Kat Timpf Embraces the Hate, Slams Binary Thinking and Talks Being Sexually Fluid|website=variety.com|first=Tatiana|last=Siegel|date=September 6, 2024}}

Timpf announced her engagement to Cameron Friscia in August 2020,{{Cite web |website=Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/ajwimsatt/status/1289753066955091968/ |title=Fox News' Katherine Timpf Engaged. |date=August 1, 2020 |access-date=August 1, 2020}} and they were married on May 1, 2021. They met on the dating app Raya.Jackson, Dory (May 3, 2021). "[https://people.com/tv/fox-news-kat-timpf-marries-cameron-friscia-photos/ Fox News' Kat Timpf Marries Cameron Friscia: 'It's the Best Feeling in the World']." People. Retrieved on May 4, 2021.

On July 31, 2024, Timpf announced that she and Friscia were expecting their first child.{{Cite web |last=Roberts |first=Andrew |date=2024-12-08 |title=Pregnant Fox News Personality Suffers Broken Hip |url=https://popculture.com/celebrity-parents/news/fox-news-personality-kat-timpf-suffers-broken-hip-amid-pregnancy/ |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=PopCulture.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Siegel |first=Tatiana |date=2024-09-06 |title=Fox News Pundit Kat Timpf Embraces the Hate, Slams Binary Thinking and Talks Being Sexually Fluid |url=https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/fox-news-kat-timpf-book-i-used-to-like-you-until-1236133025/ |access-date=2025-01-29 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Timpf |first=Kat |date=2024-07-29 |title=My mom died 10 years ago this Election Day and I'm pregnant with my first child |url=https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/my-mom-died-10-years-ago-election-day-im-pregnant-my-first-child |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}} Timpf announced the birth of their first child, a boy, on February 25, 2025. She also shared that 15 hours before she gave birth, she was diagnosed with Stage 0 breast cancer. Timpf has stated that she is planning to undergo a double mastectomy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/02/26/fox-news-kat-timpf-breast-cancer-first-baby/80450613007/|title=Fox News' Kat Timpf received breast cancer diagnosis, had her first baby hours later|first=Taijuan|last=Moorman|website=USA TODAY|date=February 26, 2025}}

Books

You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together (2023), Broadside Books
I Used to Like You Until...: (How Binary Thinking Divides Us) (2024), Threshold Editions