Megyn Marie Kelly (born November 18, 1970) is an American journalist, political commentator, and former defense lawyer. She is the host of her audience, NBC Megyn Kelly Today's morning show. He was a newsreader on Fox News from 2004 to 2017, and is currently with NBC News.
On January 3, 2017, Kelly announced her departure from Fox News and stated that she would join NBC News. On June 4, 2017, he began hosting a Sunday evening news magazine called Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly. From October 2013 to January 2017, during his career at Fox News, Kelly hosted The Kelly File . He previously hosted America Live, and before that, co-hosted the American News Room with Bill Hemmer. From 2007 to 2012, two reporters brought Fox News Channel's New Year's Eve specials, "All American New Year". She is on the 2014 Time list of the 100 most influential people.
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Kelly was born in Champaign, Illinois, to Edward Kelly, who taught at the State University of New York in Albany, and Linda (nÃÆ' Â © e DeMaio), a housewife. He is of Italian and German descent on the side of his mother and of Irish descent in his father. Kelly's father died of a heart attack when he was 15 years old.
Kelly was raised by Roman Catholics.
Kelly attended the Tecumseh Elementary School in DeWitt, New York. When he was 9 years old, his family moved to Albany, New York, a suburb of Delmar, where he studied at Bethlehem High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Syracuse University in 1992 and earned his J.D. degree from Albany Law School in 1995.
Kelly is an associate at the Chicago law firm Bickel & amp; Brewer LLP, during which time he co-authored an article for the American Bar Association, Litigation , called "The Conflicting Roles of Lawyer as Director". He then joined Jones Day for nine years, where one of his clients was an Experian credit bureau.
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Television career
Initial career
In 2003, Kelly moved to Washington, D.C., where she was hired by ABC affiliate WJLA-TV as a public assignment reporter. While there, he covered significant national and local events, including live coverage of a confirmation audience for US Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. and Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts; his retirement Judge Sandra Day O'Connor; the death of Justice William Rehnquist; and the 2004 presidential election. After working as a journalist for WJLA, Kelly then applied for a job at Fox News in 2004. CNN President Jonathan Klein later regrets not hiring Kelly as a reporter early in his career, as he is "the only talent you would want to have from another place ".
Fox News
Kelly contributed to the legal segment for Special Reports with Brit Hume and hosted her own legal segment, Kelly's Court , during Living Weekends . He appeared in the weekly segment on The O'Reilly Factor and occasionally filled in for Greta Van Susteren on On the Record , where most of his reporting focuses on legal and political issues. He sometimes contributes as an anchor, but more often as an alternate anchor on weekends. On February 1, 2010, Kelly started her own two-hour afternoon show, America Live , replacing Fox News 'The Live Desk' earlier show. He has been a guest panelist at Fox News's Rednight witch/Greg Gutfeld program. In 2010, the audience for America Live increased by 20%, an average of 1,293,000 viewers, and increased by 4% in the 25-54 year old demographic, an average of 268,000 viewers. In December 2010, Kelly is confirmed to be hosting a special New Year's Eve with Bill Hemmer.
Kelly received media attention for her coverage of the 2012 United States presidential election. On November 6, 2012 (Fox night's decision table) projected that Obama would win a second term after part of the results had been released. Responding to Karl Rove's rejection of this projection, Kelly goes backstage to the decision table in front of the camera and talks with them, and also asks Rove, "Is this just the math you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better? This is real ? "
Kelly went on to host America Live at the beginning of July 2013 for a maternity leave and re-hosted the new night program The Kelly File on October 7, 2013. For many years, < The> Kelly Files at different times took over the channel's regular number The O'Reilly Factor ranked. However, The Kelly File has also been taken over by Hannity .
In December 2013, comments made by Kelly in reaction to the Slate article invited controversy. On The Kelly File , he said, "For all your kids watch at home, Santa is just white, but this guy is just arguing that maybe we should also have black Santa," adding, " But Santa Claus is like that, and just so you know, we're just debating this because somebody wrote about it. "Kelly also stated that Jesus is a white man in this segment. Soon after, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Rachel Maddow, Josh Barro, and others quipped his remarks. Two days later, he made additional statements in the air, characterizing his original comment as "tongue-in-cheek", and that Jesus' skin color was "far from settled".
In June 2015, Kelly interviewed Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar of Children and Counting about their alleged kidnapping of Josh Duggar against five girls in 2002. She then interviewed two of their daughters, Jill and Jessa. It shows Nielsen estimates national ratings of 3.09 million viewers, above the 2.11 million average, ranking with 3.2 million for 17 Malaysia Airlines flight coverage and 7.3 million for Ferguson unrest coverage.
In a Republican presidential debate on 6 August 2015, Kelly asked whether a man of Trump temperament should be elected president. Kelly's moderator produced various media and political reactions and his professionalism was criticized by the presidential candidate Trump. Kelly responds to Trump's critics by saying he will not "apologize for doing good journalism". Trump refused to attend the moderated January 28 Iowa debate. After the debate and outside the camera, Kelly calls Trump "Voldemort". Bill Maher praised Kelly as "much better" than the candidate who attended the January 28 debate and argued that he was a more viable candidate for the Republican nomination. In an interview with CBS News Sunday Morning, Kelly reflected that he was disappointed by the lack of support he received from colleagues Bill O'Reilly and CNN, who last aired the Trump show at the same time as the debate. In April, at his request, Kelly meets Trump at Trump Tower, having "an opportunity to clear the air". The following month, after interviewing Trump and being greeted with mixed acceptance, he expressed an interest in doing the other with him. In June, he criticized Trump for his claim to the credibility of Gonzalo P. Curiel. In October, the controversial discussion between Kelly and Newt Gingrich on The Kelly File about Trump's sexual commentary in the 2005 audio recording got widespread social media reactions.
In March 2016, it was announced that Kelly would host a special prime time clock on Fox's network, where she would interview celebrities from "politics, entertainment, and other areas of human interest." Special aired in May 2016, which is a sweep month. It acquired 4.8 million viewers, but was ranked third in the rankings. Gabriel Sherman writes about betting for Kelly as "tall", explaining that with Kelly being in the final year of her contract with Fox and has confirmed her ambition, "Particularly basically is a public interview for the next job." In July 2016, amid allegations of sexual abuse by Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, Kelly is reported to have confirmed that he himself was also being harassed. Two days after the report, Ailes resigned from Fox News and his lawyer, Susan Estrich, publicly denied the allegations. During his coverage of the Republican National Convention 2016, his clothes received criticism. In Kelly's defense, Jenavieve Hatch of The Huffington Post commented, "If you are a woman on national television reporting hot and humid Cleveland political events, wearing climate-friendly clothes keeps you targeted from the stream of sexist comments which is endless. "In September, it was reported that Kelly would collaborate with Michael De Luca to produce Embeds , a comedy written about journalists covering politics, to be aired on a streaming service.
NBC News
By the end of 2016, Kelly is accused of actively considering other news networks other than Fox News, as his contracts are in a few months' end. In January 2017, The New York Times reported that he would leave Fox News for "role three" on NBC News where he would anchor and host his afternoon program and an in-depth Sunday night news show. , along with taking part in news coverage of major political and network events. He left Fox News on January 6, 2017, after the last episode of The Kelly File aired. In January 2017, People cited an unspecific source that Kelly remained under a non-competing clause with Fox until July 2017 that would prevent him from working for a competitor until the clause ends or is canceled.
On June 2, 2017, Kelly interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin, first in a panel discussion moderated at the International Economic Forum St. Petersburg and then in one-on-one interviews for the inaugural episode of NBC's Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly , aired June 4, 2017. Kelly's daytime show, Megyn Kelly Today, was aired on September 2017.
Kelly is reportedly paid between $ 15 million and $ 20 million a year on NBC. After the initial run of eight episodes in summer 2017, NBC decided to bring its news magazine event Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly back to summer 2018, after being absent for football and the Winter Olympics but only on a regular basis.
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In February 2016, Kelly signed an agreement with HarperCollins to write an autobiography that is scheduled to be released later that year, in a deal worth over $ 10 million. The book, titled Settle for More , was released on November 15, 2016.
Accolades
In 2009, Kelly received an award from Childhelp for her work as a Fox News broadcaster addressing child abuse issues.
She is on the 2014 Time list of the 100 most influential people.
On September 26, 2015, Kelly was inducted into the Hall of Fame at Bethlehem Central High School, her alma mater.
Kelly appeared on the cover of February 2016 Vanity Fair . In the same year, she is an honorary student of Power of Women for his children's addressing.
Personal life
Kelly married Daniel Kendall, an anesthesiologist, in 2001. Marriage ended in divorce in 2006. In 2008, she married Douglas Brunt, then president and CEO of cybersecurity firm, Authentium, and a writer and writer full-time novel. They have three children, son of Yates (b) 2009, daughter of Yardley (b) 2011, and son of Thatcher (b).
Politically, Kelly identifies himself as an independent, and tells Variety in 2015 that he has chosen both Democrats and Republicans.
On October 12, 2016, Kelly stated in a segment on her show with Fox News commentator Julie Roginsky that she is a lifelong Catholic.
References
External links
- Megyn Kelly on IMDb
- "Megyn Kelly". Fox News . Archived from the original on January 23, 2013.
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