Kelly attended Tecumseh Elementary School in suburban Syracuse, New York. Her father died of a heart attack in 1985 when she was 15 years old.

She is of Italian and German descent on her mother's side and Irish descent on her father's. Kelly was born in Champaign, Illinois, to Edward Francis Kelly, Ed.D., who taught in the School of Education at the State University of New York at Albany, and Linda ( née DeMaio), a homemaker. The show was cancelled in October 2018 after a segment discussing blackface, and she left the network in January 2019. She started hosting the third hour of the morning show Today with her program titled Megyn Kelly Today in September 2017. Kelly left Fox News in January 2017 and joined NBC News. In 2014, she was included in the TIME list of the 100 most influential people. Kelly also hosted The Kelly File from October 2013 to January 2017. From 2007 to 2012, the two reporters hosted Fox News Channel's New Year's Eve specials. She is also active in posting to her Instagram page and YouTube channel.ĭuring her time at Fox News, Kelly hosted America Live and, before that, co-hosted America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer. She was a talk show host at Fox News from 2004 to 2017 and a host and correspondent with NBC News from 2017 to 2018. She currently hosts a talk show and podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, that airs live daily on SiriusXM. Megyn Marie Kelly ( / ˈ m eɪ ɡ ə n/ born November 18, 1970) is an American journalist and media personality.

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