Tammy Bruce Biography
Tammy Bruce is an American conservative American radio host, author, and political commentator working at FOX News. She joined the network in 2005.
Tammy Bruce Date of Birth / Birthday
Bruce was born on 20th August 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is therefore 59 years old as of 2021.
Tammy Bruce Measurements/Height
Bruce stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches tall.
Tammy Bruce Partner/Lesbian
Bruce is openly a lesbian/gay. She stated that she is technically bisexual and that being lesbian is her choice in a 2006 interview. When she was 19 years old, she was in a relationship with Days of Our Lives actress Brenda Benet whom she has mentioned in her book The Death of Right and Wrong. Brenda committed suicide by locking herself inside the bathroom and shooting a gun in her head. Additionally, it is reported that Tammy Bruce had moved out two weeks prior to Brenda’s suicide and on the day of the suicide, Bruce thought that she would meet Benet for lunch.
Tammy Bruce Kids/Children
Bruce prefers to keep information about whether or not she has any children away from the public hence it is not known if she has any children at the moment. However, we will update the information once it’s available.
Tammy Bruce Relatives/ Family
Bruce was born and raised in the United States. She has managed to keep information about her family away from the public, however, we will update the information once it’s available.
Tammy Bruce Profession
Bruce is an Independent Conservative as well as a radio talk show host, New York Times bestselling author, and columnist. Additionally, she is a lifelong Democrat (until 2008 when she registered as unaffiliated), Ms. Bruce worked on a number of Democratic campaigns in the 1990s. She is now working on making sure her experience as a liberal community organizer is used to expose and help defeat the leftist agenda.
Ms. Bruce’s political history consists of supporting conservatives as well, including President Reagan, both Presidents Bush, and, quite reluctantly, John McCain during the 2008 presidential campaign. She also served on California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Transition Team after his election-by-recall in 2003. It was Donald Trump and his direct and transparent approach personally and on the issues, as well as his love for the country, that impressed her to become an active and vocal supporter, of which she remains.
Bruce is a Second Amendment advocate and free speech. Her show “Tammy Bruce Show” premiered in 1993 in Los Angeles and was nationally syndicated in 2005 enjoying over 200 terrestrial affiliates. Bruce became the first nationally syndicated host in 2009 to shift to online streaming exclusively delivering a popular and successful live program and podcast on political and cultural issues. She also severally guest-hosts for the network’s primetime programming and hosts her own show, “Get Tammy Bruce,” on the Fox Nation streaming platform. Her weekly column on the nexus of politics, culture, and business is published by the Association for Mature Americans (AMAC), accessible by the public-at-large in addition to providing special resources and commentary for their two-million plus membership.
Additionally, she has been profiled, and her editorials and commentaries on significant social issues have been published nationally and internationally, in a wide variety of magazines, newspapers including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Washington Times, The Guardian, the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, and The Advocate among others.
Bruce holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Southern California, from which she graduated cum laude. Ms. Bruce notes her interest in politics and individual liberty was sparked during her childhood in part because of the work of authors Ray Bradbury and George Orwell, both of whom remain her favorite writers.
Tammy Bruce Income
Bruce receives an annual income ranging between $30,000 and $90,000.
Tammy Bruce Net Worth
Through Bruce’s career as a radio host, author, and political commentator, she has been able to accumulate a net worth that ranges between $1million and $1.5 million.
Tammy Bruce Books
Bruce’s first book, “The New Thought Police,” was published by Forum, an imprint of Crown/Random House, in October 2001. An analysis of freedom of expression and the culture wars explores the importance of freedom of expression and personal liberty and how that liberty is under attack by the dangerous rise of Left-wing McCarthyism. Her second book, “The Death of Right and Wrong,” also for Random House (April 2003), addresses the rise of moral relativism in society and quickly became a New York Times bestseller. Ms. Bruce’s latest work, “The New American Revolution,” was published by Harper Collins/Morrow and is now available in paperback. She is currently working on her fourth book exposing the political use of fear to control individuals and society at large.
Tammy Bruce Achievements
Bruce also speaks to a variety of groups nationwide, including college, business, and civic organizations about a variety of topics, including her most requested commentary, “Contrary to Popular Belief: How Conservative Ideas Empower Women, Gays, and Blacks.”
Drawn into feminist activism in the late 1980s, Ms. Bruce focused on women in the workplace, violence against women, and ending international subjugation of women. Just two years after joining the National Organization for Women, with a brand of feminism that places her somewhere between Donna Reed and Thelma and Louise, Ms. Bruce was elected president of the Los Angeles chapter of NOW at the age of 27. Serving in that capacity as well as on their national board of directors exposed her to agendas spurring her to reject liberal and leftist politics.
Tammy Bruce Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
Bruce is active on her social media accounts. She has about 127,000 followers on her Facebook Page, about 535,715 followers on her Twitter account, and around 55,705 followers on her Instagram account.