After years of discreetly dating long distance, Hannity, 62, proposed to Earhardt, 48, over Christmas week at a church in his home state of Florida.

“We are overjoyed and so thankful to our families for all of their love and support during this wonderful time in our lives,” the two women told Fox News.

The two also mentioned that they have the blessing and support of their children, who “couldn’t be happier.”

Hannity has two children, Patrick and Merri, with ex-wife Jill Rhodes, whom he married in 1993 and divorced in 2019.

Meanwhile, Earhardt has a daughter, Hayden, with her ex-husband, Will Proctor. The former couple married in 2012, separated in 2018, then divorced in 2019. Earhardt, who lives in New York, was previously married to Kevin McKinney from 2005 to 2009.

The pair told Fox News that they “still get along well” with their ex-spouses and “made them aware of this was happening ahead of time.”

Hannity and Earhardt claimed they bonded over their religious convictions, and the church was “the perfect place” to propose, according to the site. They met with their minister soon after the engagement.

Back in June 2020, a source in Hannity and Earhardt’s orbit told PEOPLE that they had “been seeing each other very secretively for years,” despite the couple publicly denying it.

“He’s very private because he’s very famous, and he’s very controversial,” a source told me back then, “but it’s been an open secret that they have been seeing each other.”

“They’re together all the time, but in private… for years, not months,” the person added.

During the COVID-19 outbreak, Earhardt broadcast her Fox & Friends show from a studio in the basement of Hannity’s Long Island estate.

In October 2019, Earhardt told PEOPLE that she was ready to date again and wanted to have more children.

“I would love to find love again, and I want to demonstrate a loving relationship for Hayden one day,” she told me. “But I don’t know when that will occur. If God desires, he will bring the right man into my life in his time.