--- title: Kimberly Guilfoyle: Fox News Host in Talks With White House description: Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle told a San Francisco newspaper chain that she's in talks to become a White House spokeswoman. canonical: https://time.com/4781022/kimberly-guilfoyle-white-house-press-secretary-sean-spicer/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-16T17:38:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:57:22.197Z article:section: Politics og:title: Fox News Host Says She's in Talks to Become White House Spokeswoman og:description: "I think it’d be a fascinating job." og:url: https://time.com/4781022/kimberly-guilfoyle-white-house-press-secretary-sean-spicer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf6c060361507df74/6988cd73196cf4cbc1040203/gettyimages-631946056.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Fox Host Kimberly Guilfoyle sits on the panel of Fox News Channel's 'The Five' as pundit Bob Beckel rejoins the show at FOX Studios on January 17, 2017 in New York City. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Fox News Host Says She's in Talks to Become White House Spokeswoman twitter:description: "I think it’d be a fascinating job." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf6c060361507df74/6988cd73196cf4cbc1040203/gettyimages-631946056.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Fox News Host Says She's in Talks to Become White House Spokeswoman by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith May 16, 2017 5:38 PM UTC  Fox Host Kimberly Guilfoyle sits on the panel of Fox News Channel's 'The Five' as pundit Bob Beckel rejoins the show at FOX Studios on January 17, 2017 in New York City. Fox Host Kimberly Guilfoyle sits on the panel of Fox News Channel's 'The Five' as pundit Bob Beckel rejoins the show at FOX Studios on January 17, 2017 in New York City.Roy Rocklin—Roy Rochlin by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith May 16, 2017 5:38 PM UTC Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle [told a San Francisco newspaper chain](http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/16/kimberly-guilfoyle-white-house-press-secretary/) that she’s in talks to become a White House spokeswoman. One of the co-hosts of the Fox News show “The Five,” Guilfoyle said that her becoming press secretary—a job currently held by Sean Spicer—or some other communications post has been “raised by a number of people.” “I’m a patriot, and it would be an honor to serve the country,” she told the Bay Area News Group, which includes the San Jose Mercury News. “I think it’d be a fascinating job, it’s a challenging job, and you need someone really determined and focused, a great communicator in there with deep knowledge to be able to handle that position.” The New York _Times_ [reported](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/us/politics/trump-sean-spicer-sarah-huckabee-sanders.html?%5Fr=1) last week that Trump had mentioned Guilfoyle to allies as a possible press secretary, though Trump had previously [praised him](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/everyone-tunes-in-inside-trumps-obsession-with-cable-tv/2017/04/23/3c52bd6c-25e3-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de%5Fstory.html?utm%5Fterm=.e65b077788f5) as getting “great ratings.” A former prosecutor in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Guilfoyle was married for four years to then-San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, who is now serving as California lieutenant governor. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4781022/kimberly-guilfoyle-white-house-press-secretary-sean-spicer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4781022/kimberly-guilfoyle-white-house-press-secretary-sean-spicer/"},"headline":"Fox News Host Says She's in Talks to Become White House Spokeswoman","datePublished":"2017-05-16T17:38:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:57:22.197Z","description":"Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle told a San Francisco newspaper chain that she's in talks to become a White House spokeswoman.","url":"https://time.com/4781022/kimberly-guilfoyle-white-house-press-secretary-sean-spicer/","keywords":["White House","Donald Trump","fox news","sean spicer"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf6c060361507df74/6988cd73196cf4cbc1040203/gettyimages-631946056.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf6c060361507df74/6988cd73196cf4cbc1040203/gettyimages-631946056.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Fox Host Kimberly Guilfoyle sits on the panel of Fox News Channel's 'The Five' as pundit Bob Beckel rejoins the show at FOX Studios on January 17, 2017 in New York City.","caption":"Fox Host Kimberly Guilfoyle sits on the panel of Fox News Channel's 'The Five' as pundit Bob Beckel rejoins the show at FOX Studios on January 17, 2017 in New York City.","creditText":"Roy Rocklin—Roy Rochlin","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4781022/kimberly-guilfoyle-white-house-press-secretary-sean-spicer/","name":"Fox News Host Says She's in Talks to Become White House Spokeswoman"}}]}] ```