Former Fox News host and US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth recently faced calls to resign when it came out that he had been sharing military secrets in a Signal group chat with his wife, former Fox News producer Jennifer Rauchet. To make matters worse, Hegseth is in hot water again after a third group chat including Rauchet, chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, and former Fox News producer Tami Radabaugh was uncovered.
Meanwhile, Radabaugh made headlines twice in two weeks, after she reportedly suggested her former colleague Hegseth install a make-up room in the Pentagon to prep for TV appearances.
In response to a CBS News article titled “Hegseth orders make-up studio installed at Pentagon”, Hegseth took to X (formerly Twitter) on April 24, writing: “Totally fake story. No ‘orders’ and no ‘make-up’ – but whatever.”
So who is Tami Radabaugh? Here’s everything to know.
She’s a TV news producer
Tami Radabaugh graduated from the College of New Rochelle in New York with a degree in communication arts and political science.
She was a senior executive producer at Fox News from 2019 to 2023, during which she oversaw the popular morning show Fox & Friends and, according to her LinkedIn bio, was “responsible for more than 15 hours of live programming each week”. Before that, she held other producer roles at Fox, having first joined in early 2015.
Prior to her years at Fox, Radabaugh worked for a string of media organisations including CBS News and CNN.
