E D Hill
Hill (born Edith Ann Tarbox on July 27, 1961) is an American news anchor who formerly worked for Fox News Channel.
Biography
E.D. William Holcomb Tarbox of Lakeway, Texas.
Hill holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Texas where she was a member of Delta Gamma Sorority.
Hill won a local Emmy Award for Outstanding News Special while working for WHDH-TV in Boston (1990-91), and has also received a Golden Quill Award for live spot news reporting. She also attended the University of Minnesota Duluth and Harvard.
In 1989 she was married to Marc Philip Weill.
They had children and also divorced .
After two years of dating, she married her third husband, venture capitalist Joe Hill, in March 2002. Hill has been married three times, taking her husband's surname professionally each time, and so she has worked in television under four different names:
Edye Tarbox (maiden name)
E.D.
Hill
Career
Hill was a veejay for VH1 in the mid-1980s, under the name Edye Tarbox. to 12:00 noon block of Fox News Live from 2006 until her show America's Pulse was cancelled in 2008.
She had also filled in for Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor.
On Friday June 6, 2008, Hill asked whether a fist bump between then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, and his wife Michelle, after the final 2008 Presidential Democratic primaries was a "terrorist fist jab." Hill, introducing an upcoming discussion before a commercial break, posited that the gesture was either "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab?," but never explained the term when the segment continued after the break. Senior Vice President of Programming at Fox Bill Shine says that he "chose not to renew E.D.'s latest contract" but noted that "Hill has been a valued contributor to the success of FNC over the years, and we wish her all the best".
Books
In November 2005 William Morrow published Hill's first book, a collection of personal profiles entitled Going Places: How America's Best and Brightest Got Started Down the Road of Life.
Hill teased discussion of Obama dap: "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab?"".