Sean Duffy reveals he took a 7-month road trip for reality show while transportation head

Former Fox News contributor Sean Duffy revealed that he spent seven months making a reality show while serving the country as Secretary of Transportation.

In a Friday interview on Fox News, Duffy and his wife, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, announced their new program called "The Great American Road Trip."

"Rachel and I actually met on a road trip on a reality TV show," Duffy told Fox & Friends. "And so over the course of seven months, we just kind of found these moments where I might be able to do some work. I could take the kids with me, do a road trip."

"For the last, I mean, we've been married 27 years," Campos-Duffy said. "We've had dozens of reality TV people come to us and say, we want to do a show with your family. We've always said no."

"And then when the president said to Sean and all the Cabinet members, do something to celebrate America, and Sean said, we're going to do the road trip," she added. "We're going to take the kids. We're going to go see different sites."

According to Campos-Duffy, the couple initially planned to use their iPhones to film a family vacation before it turned into a full-blown reality show.

The Great American Road Trip website indicated that the effort was sponsored by corporations like Boeing, Toyota, Shell, Google, Comcast, and United Airlines.

It was not immediately clear how much the Duffys were paid for their participation in the reality show.