Brian Kilmeade Biography
Brian Kilmeade is a Fox News political commentator and television and radio host in the United States. On weekdays, he co-hosts Fox & Friends in the morning and hosts The Brian Kilmeade Show on Fox News Radio.
Brian Kilmeade Age
Kilmeade is 57 years old as of 2021. He was born on 7 May 1964 in New York, New York, United States.
Brian Kilmeade Height
Kilmeade stands at a height of 5 feet and 8 inches(1.78 m).
Brian Kilmeade Family
Kilmeade is the second son of James Kilmeade Junior and Marie Rose D’Andrea. Brian’s father was born in 1931, the son of James Kilmeade Senior, who was born in Longford, Ireland in 1905 and immigrated to the United States in 1925, becoming a citizen in 1930. Marie, Brian’s mother, was born in Ozone Park in 1934 and raised in St. Albans, Queens.
Brian Kilmeade Wife
Brian, Kirstyn, and Kaitlyn Kilmeade are his three children with Dawn Kilmeade (née DeGaetano).
Brian Kilmeade Education
Kilmeade attended LIU Post in Brookville, New York, after graduating from Massapequa High School in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Brian Kilmeade Donald Trump
Kilmeade served as an informal adviser to Trump’s government during his presidency, breaking journalistic ethics. Kilmeade supported the Trump administration’s family separation policy on Fox & Friends on June 22, 2018, saying, “Like it or not, they are not our kids,” referring to children of illegal immigrants who had been taken from their parents and detained. Lesley Stahl was accused of imposing an “agenda” and putting her “point of view” into a climate change discussion with President Donald Trump by Fox News presenter Brian Kilmeade in 2018.
In 2022, he urged Republicans to cease questioning election outcomes and to stop labeling the media as “anti-Trump” for exposing fake electoral plots. He sent letters to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, pleading with him to persuade Trump to condemn the uprising.
Brian Kilmeade Salary
Kilmeade earns an annual salary of $4 Million.
Brian Kilmeade Net Worth
Kilmeade has an estimated net worth of $10 Million.
Brian Kilmeade Career
He started his career as a correspondent for Channel One News, a national high school news program broadcast daily. Later, he worked for KHSL-TV in Chico, California, as an anchor and host. On KLSD, an all-sports radio network, he co-hosted The Jim Brown Show. Kilmeade worked as part of Jim Brown’s announcing team for the first Ultimate Fighting Championship event in 1993, delivering post-fight interviews. In 1994, he became the play-by-play announcer for UFC 2 and UFC 3.
Beginning in 1997, Kilmeade worked as a freelance sports anchor for WVIT (NBC) in Hartford, Connecticut. He worked as a sideline reporter for MSG’s Major League Soccer coverage, focusing on the MetroStars. Later, he worked for Newport as a feature reporter and anchor, hosting Newport Journal, the national sports network’s daily magazine show. Scoreboard Central, a live half-hour general sports program, was also hosted by him. He has ten years of stand-up comedy experience, according to his online biography.
Since 1998, he has co-hosted Fox and Friends with Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt on Fox’s cable morning television show. In April 2006, he took over the Fox News Radio time slot of former Fox anchor Tony Snow, who had departed the network to become the George W. Bush Administration’s White House Press Secretary. He is a regular panelist on FNC’s The Five, which airs nightly at 5 p.m. eastern. He also presents The Brian Kilmeade Show on Fox News Radio and “What Made America Great” on Fox Nation. He will also headline One Nation with Brian Kilmeade on weekends on Fox News beginning in 2022.
Other anchors include Forrest Sawyer, Joan Lunden, Jim Avila, Joan Lunden, Cecily Tynan, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan, Lara Spencer, Ginger Zee, David Muir, Amy Robach, Kendis Gibson, Diane Macedo, Rob Nelson, Paula Faris, and Reena Ninan.
