Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Elisabeth DelPadre Hasselbeck (Filarski; born May 28, 1977) is an American television personality and talk show host.

Hasselbeck was born Elisabeth DelPadre Filarski on May 28, 1977, in Cranston, Rhode Island.

She is the daughter of architect Kenneth Filarski and school teacher and lawyer Elizabeth DelPadre.

Her brother, Kenneth Jr., is a practicing attorney.

Their father is of Polish descent and their mother is of Italian descent.

Hasselbeck was raised Catholic and attended St. Mary School in Cranston, followed by St. Mary Academy – Bay View in East Providence, where she graduated in 1995.

She then attended Boston College, where she captained the women's softball team for two seasons, winning consecutive Big East championships.

Hasselbeck started working for Puma in 1998, while attending Boston College.

After graduation, she worked for Puma shoes as a member of its design team before her television career.

With concentrations on large scale paintings and industrial design, Hasselbeck graduated with a BFA in 1999.

Hasselbeck rose to prominence in 2001 as a contestant on the second season of the American version of Survivor, where she finished in fourth place.

She married NFL player Tim Hasselbeck the following year.

In 2001, Hasselbeck (then Elisabeth Filarski) was cast in Survivor: The Australian Outback, and was originally a member of the Kucha tribe alongside Rodger Bingham, Nick Brown, Alicia Calaway, Debb Eaton, Kimmi Kappenberg, Michael Skupin, and Jeff Varner.

Filarski took on a 'cheerleader' role in the tribe, which made many people like her, particularly Bingham as the two formed a close friendship.

Filarski avoided being voted out at the first Tribal Council, which her tribe attended.

The Kucha tribe then went on a winning streak and lost once again on day fifteen.

They voted out Kappenberg.

On day seventeen, Skupin fell into the campfire and had to be medically evacuated.

Skupin's evacuation led to the Kucha and Ogakor tribes merging.

There were five members each.

Filarski lasted almost nine hours in the first individual immunity challenge.

Contestants had to stand on a perch in the water for as long as possible, but lost.

At the first tribal council, former Kucha member Varner was eliminated in a 5–5 tie.

This was due to previous votes cast against him.

This led to another Kucha member Alicia being voted out and sent to the jury.

Filarski was next on the block when the biggest threat in her original tribe, Brown, won immunity.

She swayed the votes of Ogakor members [Tina Wesson] and [Colby Donaldson] her way, and had [Jerri Manthey] voted out.

However the former Ogakor would continue dominating the game when they voted out Brown at the final seven, but she and Bingham managed to survive once again after she convinced the Ogakor alliance to vote out their own member Amber Brkich.

At the final five, her closest ally throughout the entire game, Rodger Bingham, was voted out.

She then became the sole remaining Kucha member and was voted out next on day 39, receiving fourth place and becoming the sixth jury member.

At the final tribal council, Filarski voted for Wesson to win over Donaldson.

Wesson went on to win the season in a 4–3 vote.

She was one of two people who were asked to return for Survivor: All-Stars and declined, the other being Colleen Haskell of Survivor: Borneo.

Hasselbeck was a judge at the Miss Teen USA 2001 pageant.

From 2002 to 2003, she hosted the Style Network's The Look for Less where she helped find stylish clothes for bargain prices.

Hasselbeck was one of a number of women who guest-hosted to replace outgoing The View co-host Lisa Ling, who left the show at the end of 2002.

From 2003 to 2013, Hasselbeck appeared as a co-host on the ABC daytime talk show The View, where she became known for her conservative views on sociopolitical issues.

Although Hasselbeck previously saw herself as a "behind the scenes" kind of person and not interested in a career in television, or playing pundit, her agent was eager to showcase her competitive client and she auditioned for The View in 2003.

With her co-hosts Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepherd, and Barbara Walters, she was awarded the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host during the 36th Daytime Emmy Awards in 2009.

Thereafter, Hasselbeck was a co-host on Fox & Friends from 2013 to 2015, and has since temporarily departed from television.