A hot, television host, attorney at law and political commentator Megyn Marie Kelly was once a host of America Live and the co-host of America’s Newsroom and is currently a host in the current affairs television program, The Kelly File on the Fox News Channel. Although she was once in a lot of controversy due to one of her statement regarding the skin color of Santa, Kelly was included in the 2014 Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Born on November 18 1970 in Syracuse, New York, Kelly along with her parents moved to Delmar New York when she was nine years old. Kelly attended the Bethlehem Central High School and there she was keenly interested in playing basketball, field hockey and she also captained her cheerleading squad. Kelly’s father was a staff in the University at Albany; unfortunately he died when she was 15 years old. Kelly passed her high school and soon after that pursued an undergraduate degree in Political Science at Syracuse University. Kelly was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and she later earned a Juris Doctor graduate degree from Albany Law School. There, Kelly served as an associate editor of the Albany Law Review.

Kelly’s first career was that of an attorney. Soon after being graduated from Albany Law School in 1995, Kelly became an associate in the Chicago office of law firm Bickel and Brewer LLP. During her time there, Kelly co-wrote an article for the American Bar Association’s journal, Litigation, called “The Conflicting Roles of Lawyer as Director”. Later Kelly joined Jones Day, an elite international law firm, where she worked for nine long years and served as an attorney for credit bureau Experian. Kelly never knew that her career would leap on to journalism but after she moved to Washington D.C., Kelly was hired by the ABC News affiliate WJLA-TV as a general assignment reporter. While she was at WJLA-TV, Kelly covered several major national and local events very appropriately including foremost national events such as the 2004 presidential election and the Beltway sniper attacks. After that Kelly applied for a job at the Fox Entertainment Group in 2004. Soon this was to be Kelly’s second home. Kelly was appointed as a general assignment reporter located in Washington D.C. where she provided a wall to wall coverage of the confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito. Jr, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts. Kelly also reported on the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and also the death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. Kelly played a vital role in contributing legal segments for Special Report with Brit Hume and also hosted her own legal segments, Kelly’s Court, during Weekend Live. Kelly became more and more decipherable in the political commentating field. Kelly made an appearance on a weekly segment on The O’Reilly Factor and occasionally crammed in for Greta Van Susteren on “On the Record”. There most of Kelly’s reporting focused on legal and political matters. Kelly also sporadically contributed as an anchor , but more frequently as a substitute anchor on weekends. Kelly began hosting her own two hour show, America Live, on February 1 2010; replacing Fox News’ previous show The Live Desk. Kelly has also been a guest panelist on Fox News’ late night satire program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. By the end of 2010, viewers for the America Live augmented by 20% , averaging 1293000 viewers and increased by 4% in the 25-54 age demographic , averaging 268000 viewers.

It was in 2012 that Kelly received media attention for her coverage of the results of the 2012 United States Presidential election. At the night of the election, on November 6 2012 Fox News projected that Obama would win a second term after part of the outcome had been released .

In the beginning of July 2013 Kelly left as host of America Live for a maternity leave and later began hosting The Kelly File hour show on October 7 2013.The Kelly file then became famous but what became more prominent and controversial was Kelly’s statement which she made as a reaction to a Slate article through The Kelly file, where she jibed that “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” and added “But Santa is what he is , and just so you know, we’re just debating this because someone wrote about it”. Kelly later in her statement also stated that Jesus was a white man. Her entire statement spread like fire in forest and satire was made on her remarks and many people criticized her thoughts. Later Kelly cleared her original comment to be a “tongue in cheek”.

Megyn Kelly has been successful in her Journalism career which is clearly depicted by her enormous salary and a net worth of $ 15 million .With a height of 5 feet 6 inches and body measurements of 35-25-36 inches, Megyn was previously married to her boyfriend Daniel Kendall, an anesthesiologist which in 2006 ended up in divorce. Kelly then began dating future second husband Douglas Brunt, President and CEO of Authentium, now a full time writer and novelist, and they got married in 2008. The couple has 3 lovely children.

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