Tammy Bruce is a conservative and rather bold American radio host, author, and political commentator. Earlier, she has been president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). She is currently an on-air contributor to Fox News Channel and host of Get Tammy Bruce on Fox Nation.
Let’s find out more about her!
Net Worth Of Tammy Bruce, & Her Career
Tammy Bruce is a multi-faceted talent being an author, radio host, and TV show host. She has collected a huge fortune from her professional career. Being a radio host alone earns her about $110,537 per year, according to ziprecruiter.com. She is also a Fox News contributor, in which she earns about $70,000 per year plus a bonus of $4,000.
She held the position of president of the Los Angeles feminist organization, National Organization for Women (NOW), from 1990 to 1996 and served as the board of directors. However, she later became a prominent critic of the organization through one of her books.
Bruce’s first prominent clash with NOW was over the O.J. Simpson case in 1995, when they collided because of the differences in their leftist ideologies. The following year, NOW censured Bruce, citing her comments over the case as “racially insensitive.” She resigned from her post in May 1996.
She was involved in several ‘Democratic" campaigns in the 1990s. In 1992, she supported the senate campaigns of Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein and the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton. She campaigned against the sexually violent content of Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel American Psycho, published by Vintage Books (under the parent company Knopf). She also raised her voice to boycott all the books published by the company.
The Tammy Bruce Show first premiered in 1993 in Los Angeles and was syndicated in 2005. In 1997, she hosted a talk show aired on KFI. She added author profession in her resume in October 2001 when she published her first book named The New Thought Police; it discussed freedom of expression, personal liberty, and how the practice of left-wing McCarthyism is a threat to democracy. Her second book, The Death of Right and Wrong, released in April 2003, was a New York Times Best Seller.
In 2003, Bruce was appointed to serve on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Transition Team. The following year, she supported restricting marriage only to heterosexual couples. She published another book of hers in November 2005 titled The New American Revolution.
For most of the 2000s, Bruce hosted a national radio program titled Tammy Show for Talk Radio Network (TRN). In 2009, Bruce gave a quite unpleasant comment on Barack Obama and his family while moving to the White House. Bruce’s Tammy Show became the number-one radio program on the internet radio hub ‘TalkStreamLive’ for 3 consecutive years.
Bruce made her film debut in 2009 indie dystopian sci-fi feature ‘2081’ as Diana Moon Glampers. Tammy had a supporting role in the 2011 documentary The Undefeated, based on the life of former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin, who was a nominee for the 2008 vice-presidential run.
Tammy Bruce in the show, Get Tammy Bruce (©: Instagram/ Tammy Bruce)
In May 2017, she guest-appeared on the Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight, where she criticized a young autistic boy who has asked for an apology from Vice President Mike Pence, as he had accidentally touched the boy’s face. She later apologized on air.
In December 2018, Bruce condemned a Scottish coffee shop on Fox News for calling “gingerbread men” “gingerbread people.” She believed that the decision restricted free speech.
She has made her appearances in several TV shows, including Face the Nation, E! True Hollywood Story (1996), Fox & Friends (1998), Happening Now (2008), The Five (2011), Fox Files (2012), The Kelly File (2013), Tucker Carlson Tonight (2016), The Story with Martha MacCallum (2017), The Ingraham Angle (2017), and many others.
Bruce is also a Fox News contributor. In 2019, she became the host of Get Tammy Bruce, which is available on the Fox Nation streaming service.
Is Tammy Bruce In A Relationship?
The independent conservative is openly gay. She has not been involved in a romantic relationship with anyone since the death of her partner, Brenda Benet, since 1982.
Bruce was in a relationship with actor Brenda Benet. She was 19 when she served as Benet’s personal secretary. They broke up in early 1982, and a few weeks later, a tragic event occurred for them.
On April 7, 1982, Bruce found Benet locked in her bathroom at her Mandeville Canyon home. She called the police to break the door but, unfortunately, she had already taken her last breath at the time. She had apparently committed suicide by shooting herself with a gun.
In a 2006 interview with C-SPAN, Bruce stated she was technically bisexual and that for her, identifying as a lesbian was a choice. She embraced conservative ideals as time went by and hugely supports and act as an activist of LGBTQ+ rights and marriages.
She regularly talks about the importance of religious and traditional values in the prospects of gay or lesbian relationships. She also advocates the gay rights on her social media and has made her feelings about gay marriage. She tweeted in 2015 that the civil rights victory of gay marriage has to be committed to religious freedom as well.
Who Is Tammy Bruce? Education, Family
Tammy K. Bruce, as in Tammy Bruce, was born on 20 August 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Not much is known about her parents. However, she once revealed in an interview that her mother had conceived her due to an affair with a member of the mobster gang of Bugsy Siegel and Sam Giancana.
Bruce’s father left her mother when she got pregnant with Bruce, so Bruce had not even seen her father’s face. She is of Italian descent.
Talking about her education, she holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Southern California and is pursuing a Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate University. She developed her interest in politics and individual liberty at a tender age because of the work of authors Ray Bradbury and George Orwell.
The 58-year old radio host is 5 ft 9 in tall and weighs around 59 kg.