Appetizers, awkward exes, and one woman who wanted gas money. Yes, this actually happened on morning TV.
Viewers of Fox & Friends got more than just headlines this week when Ainsley Earhardt and Lawrence Jones took a detour from news into dating disaster territory, live, on air.
What started as a light tease turned into a full-blown oversharing session, complete with eyebrow-raising details and laugh-out-loud reactions from their cohosts.
“Lawrence Shares a Lot” — And His Exes Aren’t Happy About It
It all began when Earhardt playfully called out her cohost.
“Lawrence shares a lot about his dating life,” she said with a grin.
Jones tried to clarify and maybe defend himself.
“Yeah, but I share with you off the record, right? And you have managed to tell maybe three or four stories of my exes on air.”
Turns out, not all of those exes have taken it well.
“I get complaints,” he admitted. “Because people take clips of this and they go, really?”
The Date That Asked for Dinner — and a Full Tank
Earhardt, who is engaged to Sean Hannity, gently nudged Jones to tell one story in particular and it didn’t disappoint.
Jones recalled going on a date with a woman who was anything but low-maintenance.
“She orders four appetizers on a date,” he said. “And she’s wasteful. She doesn’t even eat it all.”
He added that the woman made a point about being “so independent,” but didn’t even make a move toward the check.
“I always take the bill, but I wanted to see her reach for it… She didn’t.”
“Two negatives,” Kilmeade chimed in.
Things only got worse from there.
“She goes, ‘You know, my car is on,’” Jones continued. “I said, ‘OK, I’ll follow you to the gas [station],’ and she wanted me to fill her up.”
Earhardt, stunned, asked the obvious:
“She said, ‘You get out and pump it and pay for it?’”
“That’s right,” Jones confirmed.
But he drew the line somewhere.
“No, I didn’t. I pumped it, but I wasn’t paying for that.”
Live Laughter and a Surprise Punchline
The cohosts were in disbelief, with Brian Kilmeade joking, “That is the worst date ever.”
The hosts joked the woman might even be watching.
“She’s probably listening right now,” Kilmeade said.
Earhardt played along:
“Oh my gosh, that was me,” she said, impersonating the woman.
“That is the worst date ever,” she repeated, cracking up.
The segment quickly transitioned back to headlines, but not before delivering one of the most unexpectedly funny moments of the morning.
Morning TV Meets Real-Life Romance Woes
From awkward ex feedback to gas-pumping drama, the moment showed why fans keep tuning in. Not just for news, but for the unfiltered chemistry between hosts who aren’t afraid to laugh at themselves.
As for the mystery woman? No word yet if she saw the segment… but if she did, she might want to delete her Uber Eats history.