Noelle Inguagiato: what the reporting actually established

Noelle Inguagiato, known during her marriage as Noelle Watters, worked at Fox News in marketing and promotions and hosted the network’s fashion web series iMag Style. She married the Fox host Jesse Watters in 2009, had twin daughters in 2011, and filed for divorce in October 2017.

The sequence of what happened next is well documented in contemporaneous reporting. It is also misstated on most pages ranking for her name, including one that says her husband filed.

Noelle Inguagiato: quick facts

The timeline most pages get wrong

Here is the documented order of events, from reporting in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Daily News in March 2018.

1. October 2017. Noelle Watters files for divorce.
2. November 2017. Jesse Watters notifies Fox News human resources that he has been in a relationship with Emma DiGiovine, a 25-year-old associate producer on Watters’ World. That disclosure comes after the divorce papers, not before.
3. November 2017. DiGiovine is transferred to The Ingraham Angle. No disciplinary action is taken against either employee.
4. March 2018. The story becomes public.
5. Spring 2018. DiGiovine leaves Fox.
6. March 2019. The divorce is finalised by out-of-court agreement.
7. August and December 2019. Watters becomes engaged to DiGiovine and marries her.

Now compare that to what is currently ranking. One page states that Jesse Watters filed for divorce in October. He did not; she did. Another says she filed in 2018, a year late. A third describes it only as a marriage that “faced a serious crisis” in 2017, which manages to say nothing at all.

The order matters. In the corrected version she is not a woman who was left. She filed first, and the network found out afterwards.

Her Fox News career

Before the marriage became the story, she had a job there.

Inguagiato worked in Fox News’s advertising and promotions department. In 2009 she appeared on The O’Reilly Factor as a style guide, and from 2011 she hosted iMag Style, the network’s fashion and style web series.

Her own LinkedIn profile, as described in reporting, lists her as an experienced lifestyle video producer, writer and editor, an online content creator and on-air talent. That is a media production career, not a “fashion stylist” career, which is how most pages label her.

She stepped back from the work after her daughters were born in November 2011.

That is worth noting against how she is usually described. Hosting a network web series and producing lifestyle video is a media career built inside a newsroom, not a styling gig acquired through marriage. She was working at Fox before she married a host there.

The counsellor claim

Three pages ranking for this name describe her as a licensed mental health counsellor.

That is a specific professional licence, issued by state boards and searchable in public licensing databases. None of the three cites anything. No interview, no practice, no state, no licence number.

It is also difficult to square with mainstream coverage. When Nicki Swift ran a “what happened to her” piece in 2024, it concluded that little is known about how she currently spends her time. A working entertainment outlet could not establish a career. Three aggregators later assert a clinical licence.

Treat it as unverified. Asserting that someone holds a professional licence is not a harmless embellishment.

What she actually did in the divorce

One documented detail is worth more than all the “grace and strength” prose on the competing pages.

During proceedings she filed a motion asking the court to require Jesse Watters to pay her legal fees. Reporting on the case noted it. Whether it succeeded was never made public.

The settlement terms stayed confidential. The daughters remained with her. She gave no interviews at any point, during the divorce or since, which is the single most consistent fact about her.

What isn’t verified about Noelle Inguagiato

1. Her exact date of birth. 5 May 1976 appears on several pages. Nothing supports the day.
2. Her ethnicity. Two pages describe her as Scottish-Irish. Inguagiato is an Italian surname.
3. Her height. One page says 5 ft 8 in, another 5 ft 6 in. Both publish a weight.
4. A net worth of $1 million. No source for her net worth. She has no public business or disclosed income.
5. Where she lives. New York, Washington DC and “the United States” all appear. One page hedges the last one, which tells you how much anyone knows.
6. Whether she reverted to her maiden name. One outlet says she has. Another, writing later, says it is unclear.
7. The mental health counselling licence. See above.
8. A second degree from Long Island University. Appears on two pages with nothing behind it.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Noelle Inguagiato?

A former Fox News marketing and promotions employee who hosted the network’s iMag Style web series and was married to Jesse Watters.

Who filed for divorce?

She did, in October 2017. Watters disclosed his relationship with a producer to Fox HR the following month.

When was the divorce finalised?

March 2019, by out-of-court agreement. The terms were kept confidential.

What did she do at Fox News?

She worked in advertising and promotions, appeared on The O’Reilly Factor as a style guide in 2009, and hosted iMag Style from 2011.

Does she have children?

Twin daughters, born in November 2011.

Is she a licensed counsellor?

Several pages say so. No source, licence or practice has ever been identified.

What is her net worth?

Unknown. The $1 million figure online has no source behind it.

Final words

The pages competing for this name reach two thousand words on a woman who has never given an interview. They do it with a height, a weight, an invented ethnicity, a professional licence nobody can find, and several paragraphs about her quiet dignity.

The documented version is shorter and considerably more pointed. She had a media job. She hosted a show. She filed first, in October 2017, and asked the court to make her husband cover her legal bills. Then she stopped talking to anyone about any of it, and has kept that up for nine years.

Jackson Padilla

JacksonPadilla is a writer at Around Celebrities, covering celebrity families, relationships, biographies, and the stories behind the stars. With a focus on clear and engaging storytelling, Kole helps readers discover the people and connections beyond the spotlight.