Background
Tantaros was born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she attended Parkland High School.
Tantaros was born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she attended Parkland High School.
She graduated from Lehigh University with a degree in French and Journalism. She completed her graduate studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, France.
Her family owned a Greek restaurant, Pied Piper Diner, where Tantaros worked. After returning from Paris, Tantaros moved to Washington, District of Columbia where she remains a commentator for Fox News. Tantaros worked as a spokesperson for Massachusetts Governor William Weld, then-Congressman Pat Toomey and former National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Thomas Reynolds.
She started Andrea Tantaros Media, which provided crisis management and media strategy consulting to Fortune 500 companies and political campaigns.
Tantaros joined Fox News Channel in April 2010 as a political contributor. In 2011, she was named one of the co-hosts of The Five.
After only several months airing, The Five consistently beat its competitors on Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company and Cable News Network combined, and by 2013, it was the second-most-watched program in all of cable news. Her popularity led to her being named one of the hosts of Outnumbered in 2014.
She also hosts a nationally syndicated weekday radio show (9 am to 12 pm ET) on the Talk Radio Network.
In 2015, she started dating Jane"s Addiction and former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Dave Navarro.