Megyn Kelly

Journalist

Megyn Kelly was born in Syracuse, New York, United States on November 18th, 1970 and is the Journalist. At the age of 53, Megyn Kelly biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Megyn Marie Kelly, Megyn
Date of Birth
November 18, 1970
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Syracuse, New York, United States
Age
53 years old
Zodiac Sign
Scorpio
Networth
$45 Million
Salary
$23 Million
Profession
Autobiographer, Journalist, Lawyer, News Presenter, Photographer, Political Pundit, Politician
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Megyn Kelly Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 53 years old, Megyn Kelly has this physical status:

Height
168cm
Weight
56kg
Hair Color
Blonde
Eye Color
Blue
Build
Slim
Measurements
Not Available
Megyn Kelly Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Tecumseh Elementary School, Bethlehem Central High School, Syracuse University, Albany Law College
Megyn Kelly Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Daniel Kendall ​ ​(m. 2001; div. 2006)​, Douglas Brunt ​(m. 2008)​
Children
3
Dating / Affair
Daniel Kendall (1997-2006), Douglas Brunt (2007-Present)
Parents
Edward Kelly, Linda Kelly
Siblings
Pete Kelly (Older Brother), Suzzane Kelly (Older Sister)
Other Family
Angelo DeMaio (Maternal Grandfather), Antoinette Holzwarth (Maternal Grandmother)
Megyn Kelly Career

In 2003, Kelly moved to Washington, D.C., where she was hired by the ABC affiliate WJLA-TV as a general assignment reporter. She covered national and local events, including live coverage of the confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John G. Roberts, the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and the 2004 presidential election. CNN president Jonathan Klein later said he regretted not hiring Kelly as a reporter at the beginning of her career, as she was "the one talent you'd want to have from somewhere else".

In 2004, Kelly applied for a job at Fox News. She contributed legal segments for Special Report with Brit Hume and hosted her own legal segment, Kelly's Court, during Weekend Live. She appeared in a weekly segment on The O'Reilly Factor and occasionally filled in for Greta Van Susteren on On the Record, where most of her reporting focused on legal and political matters. She occasionally contributed as an anchor, but more often as a substitute anchor on weekends. On February 1, 2010, Kelly began hosting her own two-hour afternoon show, America Live, which replaced The Live Desk. She was a guest panelist on Fox News' late-night satire program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. In 2010, viewership for America Live increased by 20%, averaging 1,293,000 viewers, and increased by 4% in the 25–54 age demographic, averaging 268,000 viewers. In December 2010, Kelly hosted a New Year's Eve special with Bill Hemmer.

Kelly received media attention for her coverage of the results of the 2012 United States presidential election. On election night, Fox News' decision desk projected that Obama would win the state of Ohio along with a second term after part of the results had been released. In response to Karl Rove's opposition to this projection, Kelly walked backstage to the decision desk on camera and spoke with them; she also asked Rove, "Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better? Or is this real?"

Kelly left America Live in July 2013 and took maternity leave. That October she began hosting a new nightly program, The Kelly File. The Kelly File was occasionally the channel's ratings leader, topping The O'Reilly Factor.

In December 2013, Kelly commented on a Slate article on The Kelly File: "For all you kids watching at home, Santa just is white, but this person is just arguing that maybe we should also have a black Santa," adding, "But Santa is what he is, and just so you know, we're just debating this because someone wrote about it." Kelly also said that Jesus was a white man later in the segment. Soon after, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Rachel Maddow, Josh Barro, and others satirized her remarks. Two days later, she said on the air that her original comments were "tongue-in-cheek", and that the skin color of Jesus is "far from settled".

In June 2015, Kelly interviewed Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar of 19 Kids and Counting regarding their son Josh Duggar's alleged molestation of five girls in 2002. She later interviewed two of their daughters, Jill and Jessa. This show's Nielsen national estimates ratings of 3.09 million viewers, above its average 2.11 million, ranked with the 3.2 million for the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shootdown coverage and 7.3 million for the Ferguson riots coverage.

In the Republican Party presidential debate on August 6, 2015, Kelly asked then-presidential candidate Donald Trump whether a man of his temperament ought to be elected president, noting that he has called various women insulting names in the past. Kelly's moderating generated a range of media and political reactions and her professionalism was criticized by Trump. Kelly responded to Trump's criticism by saying she would not "apologize for doing good journalism". Trump declined to attend the Iowa January 28 debate that she moderated. After the debate and off-camera, Ted Cruz said that Kelly had referred to Trump off-camera as "Voldemort", though Fox News denied it. Bill Maher complimented Kelly as being "so much better" than the candidates who attended the January 28 debate and argued that she was a more viable candidate for the Republican nomination.

In an interview with CBS News Sunday Morning, Kelly reflected that she was disappointed with the lack of support she received from coworker Bill O'Reilly and CNN, the latter airing a Trump event the same time as the debate. In April, at her request, Kelly met with Trump at Trump Tower, having "a chance to clear the air". The following month, after interviewing Trump and being met with mixed reception, she expressed interest in doing another one with him. In June, she criticized Trump for his claims against Gonzalo P. Curiel's impartiality. In October, a contentious discussion between Kelly and Newt Gingrich on The Kelly File regarding Trump's sexual comments in a 2005 audio recording gained widespread social media reaction.

In March 2016, it was announced that Kelly would host a one-hour prime time special on the Fox network wherein she would interview celebrities from the worlds of "politics, entertainment, and other areas of human interest". The special aired in May 2016, which was a sweeps month. It acquired 4.8 million viewers, but placed third in the ratings. Gabriel Sherman wrote of the stakes for Kelly as "high", elaborating that with Kelly being in the final year of her contract with Fox and having confirmed her ambitions, "[t]he special was essentially a public interview for her next job."

In July 2016, amid allegations of sexual harassment on the part of Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, Kelly was reported to have confirmed that she herself was also subjected to his harassment. Two days after the report, Ailes resigned from Fox News and his lawyer, Susan Estrich, publicly denied the charge.

During her coverage of the 2016 Republican National Convention, her attire received criticism. In a defense of Kelly, Jenavieve Hatch of The Huffington Post commented, "If you're a woman on national television reporting on a political event from hot, humid Cleveland, wearing a weather-appropriate outfit makes you the target of an endless stream of sexist commentary." In September, it was reported that Kelly would be collaborating with Michael De Luca to produce Embeds, a scripted comedy about reporters covering politics, to be aired on a streaming service. Kelly appeared on the cover of the February 2016 issue of Vanity Fair. In 2016, she was an honoree for Variety's Power of Women for her addressing child abuse.

In late 2016, Kelly was alleged to be actively considering other news networks aside from Fox News, since her contract was a few months from expiring. In January 2017, The New York Times reported that she would leave Fox News for a "triple role" at NBC News, which would include a daytime talk show, a Sunday-night newsmagazine, and becoming a correspondent for major news events and political coverage. She departed Fox News on January 6, 2017, after the last episode of The Kelly File was aired. In January 2017, People quoted an unspecified source that Kelly remained under a non-compete clause with Fox until July 2017 which would prevent her from working for a competitor until the clause expires or is canceled.

On June 2, 2017, Kelly interviewed Russian president Vladimir Putin, first in a panel discussion she moderated at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and later in a one-on-one interview for the premiere episode of NBC's Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly, which aired June 4, 2017. Kelly's daytime talk show, Megyn Kelly Today, premiered in September 2017.

Kelly was being paid reportedly between $15 million and $20 million a year at NBC. After an initial run of eight episodes in the summer of 2017, NBC decided to bring her newsmagazine show Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly back for summer 2018 after a hiatus for football and the Winter Olympics, but only periodically. However, this return never materialized. Instead, Kelly continued to report stories for Dateline NBC during the summer of 2018, continuing her work for the show which she joined in 2017.

On October 23, 2018, Kelly was criticized for on-air remarks she made on Megyn Kelly Today related to the appropriateness of blackface as part of Halloween costumes. She recollected that "when I was a kid, that was okay as long as you were dressing up like a character", and defended Luann de Lesseps's use of skin darkening spray to portray Diana Ross. After receiving backlash for her comments, Kelly issued an internal email apologizing for the remarks later that day. On October 26, 2018, NBC canceled Megyn Kelly Today. It had been reported that Kelly was considering ending the program to focus on her role as a correspondent. Her employment was terminated on January 11, 2019, and she was paid the $30 million due for the remainder of her contract.

Kelly announced the launch of Devil May Care Media, her media production company, on September 10, 2020, with a podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show. Its first episode premiered on September 28.

On July 6, 2021, it was announced that the podcast would move to Sirius XM on September 7, 2021, to broadcast weekdays at 12 noon ET on the talk radio channel Triumph, along with a video simulcast available to Sirius XM subscribers.

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Megyn Kelly explodes as a result of the baby's 'cowardly' decision by a Fulton County judge, who allows Fani Willis to remain as Donald Trump's prosecutor if she defames 'lover' Nathan Wade, who says she will stay as 'lover' Nathan Wade

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 15, 2024
On Friday, journalist Megyn Kelly reacted to the court's decision on the Fani Willis case, arguing that Willis will keep the election interference lawsuit against former president Donald Trump as long as she avoids contact with Nathan Wade, the prosecutor she recruited on the case.

Megyn Kelly retorts his career as a 'a**hole' former CNN host Don Lemon, who said he should have been more thankful' to Twitter billionaire Don Lemon for'resurrecting his career.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 15, 2024
Elon Musk retrenched on the multimillion-dollar contract just hours after the sit-down, where Don Lemon cautioned him about hate speech on Twitter and his opioid use, which Kelly said was a poor idea in the first place. On Thursday, Kelly, a longtime Lemon adversary, spent 12 minutes on her podcast rubbing salt in the wound. Instead of being partisan' with negative questions, Kelly said Lemon should have questioned Musk about "how great X is doing." rather than 'being partisan.'

Megyn Kelly DESTROYS 'hypocrite' George Stephanopoulos over 'rape shaming' Republican Nancy Mace

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 12, 2024
After being found guilty of sexual assault, the South Carolina lawmaker said on Sunday that the ABC anchor was attempting to'shame' and 'bully' her when he attempted to inform her that she endorsed former President Donald Trump after he was found guilty of sexual assault. 'As a rape survivor who has been shamed for years for years due to her rape.' 'You're trying to shame me again,' Mace told Stephanopolous. Kelly also challenged Stephanopolous' line of questioning, calling the anchor "Oscar for Sanctimonious Leftists Pretending They are Better Than You." 'The lifelong Democrat took to his Sunday show yesterday and decided to really press Republican and Trump-endorser Nancy Mace on how on earth she can support a guy who's been found liable of sexual assault, especially when - as he pointed out to Mace - she is a rape survivor!' Kelly said on Monday that she did not appear on Monday. "It's a shame" that you can use a woman's rape against her. What a kind, thoughtful man who genuinely cares about women and their sexual harassment allegations. 'Thank you for being a comrade, George.' Victims will not come forward if they are publicly attacked by their rapist or his defenders, and I can't imagine how worried you are.' Mace was arrested when she was 16 years old and claims that it is what drives her to campaign for women's rights. Stephanopoulos's clip went viral on social media, but ABC is sticking by him.
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