Megyn Kelly is a TV host and a commentator who was born in the United State of America. She currently works at NBC News who left Fox News in 2016. She is one of the highest paid journalists in the American journalism industry. Curious to know more about her net worth and other details. Let's begin!
Megyn Kelly's Net Worth and Salary
Megyn Kelly, a big name in the American media. Gorgeous, intelligent, feminist, experienced, she is one of the richest journalists in the American media. Her estimated net worth is a jaw-dropping $15 million. According to a source, her annual salary was $9 million in 2016.
CAPTION: Megyn Kelly's Net Worth and Salary SOURCE: She is now with NBC, her former employer Fox News’s rival and her salary is estimated to be $18 million. She was already a highly successful woman in American media, however, in 2016, she became even more popular after the worldwide rise of POTUS Donald Trump.
Born in Syracuse, she was raised in Delmar in New York City. She has a mixed ancestry of Italian although she is an American by nationality. Born and raised in a religious family, she follows Christianity and belongs to white ethnicity. A tragic chain of events saw her father pa s s away when she was only 15 years of age.
Megyn Kelly's Married Life
Kelly is a married woman and has also been divorced. Her first husband was an anesthesia doctor named Daniel Kendall, whom she married in 2001. After living together for 5 years, she divorced him in 2006 and didn't have any children together.
CAPTION: Megyn Kelly's Married Life SOURCE: Then in 2008, she married a businessman named Douglas Brunt, who has now become a writer. With Douglas, she has got 3 children and the couple who live together at their home are in a happy and strong relationship.
Hillbilly Elegy actually started from an email @JDVance1 sent his Yale Law School professor and 'Tiger Mom' @amychua #SundayNight pic.twitter.com/kTqyOfZweg
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 25, 2017
As a child, she studied at the Bethlehem Central High School and was an active child both outside and inside the cla s s. She was involved in sports and played hockey and basketball. She was also involved in the cheerleader squad and was the captain was it.
She graduated her high school and worked for some time as article writer in a magazine, which grabbed her attention. She got enrolled at the Syracuse University and studied Political Science, with Law as her major.
Megyn Kelly: Short Bio
She also received a Juris Doctor degree as she completed her Ph.D. from Albany Law School, where she also worked as the a s sociate editor of the student’s magazine Albany Law Review. She graduated from there in 1995.
After graduating, she practiced her law career first as an intern at law firm Bickel & Brewer LLP, which was in Chicago. She wrote an article there, for American Bar Association's journal under the title The Conflicting Roles of Lawyer as Director".
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From there, she worked at the law firm named Jones Day in Ohio and also was the attorney at Credit bureau Experian. After working there for some time, she thought about pursuing a career in Journalism and moved to New York after she got a job at ABC’s WJLA-TV. She worked hard there in her first year and covered some major events, the highlight of them being 2004 presidential election.
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The same year, she quit WJLA-TV and moved to work at Fox Entertainment Group. From 2004, she started to host her own show by the name of America Live, which she hosted after replacing the then ongoing show The Live Desk. She was widely popular for her coverage of the President Election in 2012.
After leaving her ongoing show in 2013, she came up with another show named The Kelly File, which hosted from the October of 2013 to mid-2016.
