Jacqui Heinrich of Fox News fact-checks the story of her own engagement: 'True'

Jacqui Heinrich, elder White House analogous for Fox News, conscionable vetted the communicative of her ain engagement to U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick connected Tuesday. The verdict? It ain’t fake news.

The Pennsylvania Republican asked Heinrich for her manus successful matrimony successful a lavender tract successful Provence, France, according to People. Promoting that story, the writer wrote connected X, “Fact check: true.” Then she tacked connected a mates of appropriately lovey emojis.

“The cooking was the dealmaker. Congrats Jacqui!” Fox News contributor Joe Concha said successful comments. Chief overseas analogous Trey Yingst chimed successful with, “Love this news,” portion Jessica Tarlov, who speaks for Democrats connected “The Five,” wrote, “Ahhhhhh congratulations!!!”

Fitzpatrick popped the question connected June 29, People reported, earlier helium had to hustle backmost to ballot connected the just-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act. His inspiration came from thing Heinrich told the Boston Globe past summer, up of the 2024 election: “I’ve ever dreamed of eating my mode done the French Riviera and Provence, with sun-drenched days astatine the lavender fields punctuated by crisp wines and salty butter.”

So Fitzpatrick, 51, booked a summertime travel to France arsenic a day acquisition for Heinrich, who turns 37 successful November. But the writer was concerned, she told the personage outlet, that her beau would person to chopped the travel abbreviated to ballot against Trump’s bill, which the president signed into instrumentality connected July 4. Did Fitzpatrick privation to postpone the trip, she wondered?

“He was like, ‘We are going. We’re going to the lavender fields. All I privation is to spot the lavender fields astatine sunrise,’” she told People. “All the clip I’ve known this man, helium has ne'er been hopeless to spot a tract of flowers astatine dawn. So I had a feeling that [a proposal] was the goal.”

What was expected to beryllium a 10-day travel was whittled down to lone a mates of days.

After arriving successful Nice, France, they drove 2 hours successful acheronian to drawback the sunrise successful the municipality of Valensole, known for its lavender and truffles. The municipality is built into a elevation overlooking a tiny stream valley, and a lavender festival is held determination annually connected the 3rd Sunday successful July. But the OBBBA waited for nary sweet-smelling shrub, truthful attending the festival was decidedly out.

Fitzpatrick had an agenda. He stopped astatine 1 peculiar lavender tract and suggested Heinrich spell for a stroll portion helium took immoderate photos of her, she told People. As she took successful the view, a lensman and a drone appeared, she said, and Fitzpatrick was asking her to wed him and presenting a ringing helium had procured from her family’s longtime jeweler.

The photos, arsenic seen connected the outlet’s website, are lovely. Heinrich, who has been dating Fitzpatrick since the 2021 Kennedy Center Honors, said yes.

“I emotion his brain,” Heinrich told People of her fiance, a five-term congressman who was antecedently an FBI peculiar cause and national prosecutor. Fitzpatrick was besides embedded with U.S. Special Forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to his biography.

“I emotion the mode helium approaches problem-solving and solving analyzable issues. He’s beardown and a antheral of faith, who brings maine person to God.,” Heinrich said. “He’s saccharine and gentle and benignant — each of the casual qualities successful a idiosyncratic that conscionable marque him a joyousness to beryllium astir and beingness brighter.”

There’s besides a useful small bonus successful this pairing, arsenic revealed connected the congressman’s website: Should Heinrich find herself successful request of an attorney, a certified nationalist accountant oregon an exigency aesculapian technician, she’s decidedly covered, due to the fact that Fitzpatrick is licensed arsenic each three.