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FBN's Stuart Varney, a Brit with 'Frontier Mentality' love

By April MacIntyre May 1, 2012, 15:16 GMT

Newsman Stuart Varney is proud to be an American, and equally proud of his English roots.

Newsman Stuart Varney is proud to be an American, and equally proud of his English roots. 

TheRobbReader.com interviewed Fox Business Network's secret weapon in the morning, Stuart Varney. 

Varney' show is one of the more addictive on the network and always features a boisterous panel that dissects the day's headlines and specifically business-related issues that affect the economy.

Stuart Varney, 63, tells the Robb Report about his love affair with the colonies: “I really wanted to see America because that was the last big place I hadn’t been to."

Varney found love with an American wife, and six children and six grandchildren later, has become as American as apple pie himself. But he travels still to other faraway places and has established homes all over.

A farm boy at heart, he tells Robb Report of his love for working the land on his farm and riding a John Deere tractor.

Excerpt from the Robb Report interview:

Tell us about your farm in the Catskills.
Varney: We built it from scratch in 2003. I was involved with the design and build of the structure, and my wife handled the interior design. Up there, I’ve got a gigantic American flag. Every Fourth of July, we winch it up the side of the house on pulleys so it covers the entire house, or at least the front and side of it—which is ironic, is it not, for an Englishman to be flying a gigantic American flag?

Drawn to wide expanses of land and possessing a "frontier" mentality, Varney also shared he has homes in California, Naples and Orlando, Florida and Bergen County, New Jersey. Additionally, he owns a farm in New Zealand and a home in Adelaide, Australia.