‘Morning’ Rush? MSNBC Co-Hosts Got Engaged To Cover Up Their Affair!
May 30 2017, Updated 10:12 a.m. ET
MSNBC Lovebirds Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski started hooking up while married to other people — and RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned the "Morning Joe" co-hosts rushed into an engagement, after a RadarOnline.com investigation threatened to expose their illicit affair!
Scarborough, 54, proposed to his sidekick during a trip to France in early May to celebrate her 50th birthday.
The two have been gushing over each other since announcing their impending nuptials, but the truth behind their on-air chemistry is more controversial!
During a months-long probe, RadarOnline.com discovered Scarborough paid second wife Susan Waren a $150,000 lump sum to end their 12-year marriage in 2013, according to divorce papers.
The former Florida congressman also shells out a whopping $30,000 a month in hush money to Waren, and she even signed a gag order to prevent her from spilling the beans about his cheating!
But insiders have long been aware of the steamy chemistry between the co-hosts.
“Everybody knew about it,” said one well-placed source. “President Trump even tweeted about it!”
On Aug. 22, then-candidate Trump Tweeted: “Some day, when things calm down, I’ll tell the real story of @JoeNBC and his very insecure long-time girlfriend, @morningmika. Two clowns!”
Republican Scarborough and die-hard Democrat Brzezinski may have been sneaking around as early as 2013, when the father of four split from Waren, sources claimed.
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Brzezinski didn’t divorce her husband of 23 years, New York–based investigative reporter James Hoffer, until last summer.
Like her TV partner, Brzezinski — who has two daughters — covered up details of her divorce by making sure the documents were sealed.
For years before their divorces, the duo often hobnobbed together at parties and even sat in front-row seats during a 2013 World Series game at Fenway Park. The sneaky twosome would claim they were promoting their show, which debuted in 2007, on these out-of-town trips.
But insiders insisted the events were excuses to for a romantic rendezvous!
Still, the cagey pair tried to keep their love on the down-low.
"I've seen both of them hundreds of times," Young Song, owner of a grocery store near Brzezinski’s New York home, told RadarOnline.com. “But never together. He usually buys beer."
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