Megyn Kelly
Megyn Kelly
Megyn Marie Kelly, formerly known as Megyn Kendall, is an American journalist, former attorney, news pundit, and political commentator on the Fox News Channel. As of 2016, Kelly hosts The Kelly File weekday evenings from the network's New York City headquarters. She previously hosted America Live. Prior to that, Kelly co-hosted America's Newsroom along with Bill Hemmer. From 2007 to 2012, the two hosted Fox News Channel's New Year's Eve specials, All American New Year. She was included in the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth18 November 1970
CitySyracuse, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Megyn Kelly quotes about
If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not.
Reagan Republicans do not criticize the other Republicans
I'm steeped in the news because I enjoy the news - I like reading papers, I like reading the blogs, I love talking to newsmakers and pundits, for that matter, about their opinions. I'm an information gatherer by nature, so that's what attracted me about this industry.
The problem with the law is that it's always there. There wasn't a vacation I took over the nine years I practiced - this was back in the dark ages - when I wasn't having faxes and FedExs literally sent to me on the beach in the Caribbean. I used to go on cruises not because I liked cruises, but because it was the one spot they couldn't get you.
I was brought up in an environment to believe that my opinion was important, that I had something to say, and that it was no less powerful because I was young, a girl, at the time really unattractive, definitely not the smartest kid in the class.
Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.
So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the result of Common Core? And it's not. It's not. Common Core does not deal with social studies. It's basically writing and math.
I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.
In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.
What I don't like is talking points.
I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.
I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I've had laughing fits on-air.
When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that's supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. The test told me that I should be a journalist.
The way we do it on the Fox News Channel is the straight news anchors like us give a hard time to both sides.