Fox News Pundit Kat Timpf Talks New Book and Her Sexuality

Working for Fox News entails a lot of of assumptions.

Just ask Kat Timpf. The savvy “Gutfeld!” co-host and Fox News analyst is a one-woman wrecking ball when it comes to shattering those expectations. She’s not MAGA. (“Trump? Mine man I never voted for?”) Nor is she one of those Never Trumpers hankering for a next-gen Bush-Cheney ticket. (“The Department of Defense — more like the ‘War Department Makes Money.’”) And she can’t be labeled straight. In fact, she opens her new book, “I Used to Like You Until …: (How Binary Thinking Divides Us),” with a hilarious revelation about a budding romance with a woman that was thwarted by the woman’s mother. Plot twist: The mother wasn’t a Bible-thumping evangelical Christian, but “a very, very, very feminist gender studies professor” who was horrified that her daughter was locked in the apartment of a popular Fox News personality.

“I don’t want to be graphic, but, uhm, I wasn’t anti-woman“, Timpf says ironically about what happened between the sheets.

Still, on this hot afternoon in late August, the expert and comedian rolls her eyes when asked how her “coming out” (our words) as sexually fluid will play out within and outside the “We report, you decide” crowd.

“That seems dramatic to me,” she says, laughing. “I actually get the creeps thinking about it making headlines. Everyone in my life is like, ‘Yeah, we know. We remember you dating that girl, etc., etc.’ But I’ve never talked about it publicly because I didn’t want the public to make a bigger deal out of it than it was to me.”

Timpf has two due dates coming up. Her book — a sequel to her 2023 New York Times bestseller “You Can’t Joke About That” — comes out Sept. 10. And she’s 17 weeks pregnant with her first child with husband Cameron Friscia. In the meantime, she aims to offer a sobering examination of our compartmentalized, dysfunctional society, a paradigm that’s even more pronounced in an election year.

In the book, she delves into her pariah status. Take her (unnamed) rapper ex-boyfriend, who posted a photo of her wearing his sweatpants in his hotel room on Instagram and then quickly deleted it, fearing someone would associate him with a Fox News figure.

“It’s even happened when I was trying to book theaters for my (comedy) tour. Like, ‘We don’t welcome a Fox person in this theater,’” she says. “It really doesn’t make sense. If you think I’m disgusting because of who I am, that’s one thing. But if it’s just because of where I work and whatever your preconceptions are about where I work, then what — what does that mean? Fox is not an idea. It’s a platform for sharing ideas.”

Plus, the self-proclaimed libertarian has a lot of friends there. And on MSNBC, too.

“Greg (Gutfeld) and I have been close for about 10 years,” she says. “I actually have a lot of friends, from all political backgrounds. So I think it’s really sad that we live in this culture where it’s so common to write someone off because of a certain position or even an association, without getting to know the person and what else you might have in common.”

Perhaps because Timpf doesn’t fit neatly into the algorithm, she gets a lot of hate mail. She’s even found a use for it. “I Used to Like You Until…”: features a photo of a naked Timpf covered in hate mail.

“The idea is to be willing to be vulnerable, even in the face of overwhelming hate, because I think that’s such a huge tool to get us out of this mess,” she says. “That’s why I say binary thinking is the enemy of critical thinking. Because once we pick a side, you don’t have to think anymore — the thinking has already been done for you.”

As for those ride-or-die “sides” in November, Timpf says she’s on Team Neither. She’s not voting for Donald Trump. And she won’t be voting for Kamala Harris. She’ll be voting third party.

“I just know that no matter who wins,” she adds, “the other party will blame me for losing because I didn’t vote for either party.”