Brit Hume

Brit Hume

Brit Hume is an American journalist and conservative political commentator. He is married to Virginia Powell Hume, the former chief of the Washington bureau for Fox News. Hume is of part Scottish descent, descended from George Home, a son of the 10th Baron of Wedderburn exiled to Virginia after the First Jacobite Rebellion.

About Brit Hume in brief

Summary Brit HumeBrit Hume is an American journalist and conservative political commentator. Hume spent 12 years as Washington, D. C., managing editor of the Fox News Channel and the anchor of Special Report with Brit Hume. In September 2016, he was named the interim anchor of On the Record, after the abrupt resignation of the show’s longtime host, Greta Van Susteren, and served in that capacity through the 2016 election. Hume is of part Scottish descent, descended from George Home, a son of the 10th Baron of Wedderburn exiled to Virginia in the aftermath of the First Jacobite Rebellion. Hume earned television’s first Academy Award nomination for his work for ABC’s Close-Up documentary program. He is married to Virginia Powell Hume, the former chief of the Washington bureau for Fox News. He has three children. He lives in Washington, DC.

and has a daughter and a son-in-law who live in New York City and Los Angeles, respectively. Hume has three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. He and his wife have two step-daughters and a step-great-granddaughter. The couple have one son and one step-daughter who live with their parents in New Jersey and New York. Hume and his family have three children and one grandchild. They have three step-sons and two granddaughters. Hume had a 23-year career with ABC News, where he contributed to World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Nightline, and This Week. He served as the ABC News chief White House correspondent from 1989 to 1996. In July 2008, it was announced that Hume would retire as Special Report anchor at the end of the year, but he would remain on Fox News in a different role.