Neil Patrick Cavuto (born September 22, 1958) is an American television news anchor, executive, commentator, and business journalist for
Fox News
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. He hosts three television programs: ''
Your World with Neil Cavuto'' and ''
Cavuto Live
''Cavuto Live'' is a two-hour weekend news program focusing on the intersection of business and politics on Fox News. It is hosted by Neil Cavuto and debuted on January 20, 2018. The live show replaces the pre-recorded ''The Cost of Freedom'' bl ...
,'' both on
Fox News
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, and ''Cavuto: Coast to Coast'' on sister channel
Fox Business Network.
Early life and education
Cavuto was born in
Westbury, New York, on
Long Island
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, the son of Kathleen T. (Feeley), a
United Nations
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staffer and homemaker, and Patrick "Pat" Cavuto, a can company sales executive. His father was of
Italian descent, while his mother was of
Irish ancestry. He was raised in
Danbury, Connecticut
Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately northeast of New York City. Danbury's population as of 2022 was 87,642. It is the seventh largest city in Connecticut.
Danbury is nicknamed the "Hat Cit ...
, where he attended
Immaculate High School. At 17, he became the manager of a fish and chips restaurant while attending high school. He worked as a
White House
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intern during the
Carter Administration
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. He graduated from
St. Bonaventure University in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in mass communication, and earned a
master's degree
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American University
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.
Career
Before joining Fox, Cavuto was a principal anchor and reporter for
CNBC
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. He co-anchored CNBC's initial broadcast on April 17, 1989. He hosted ''
Power Lunch'' on
CNBC
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, contributed to
NBC's ''
Today'', and worked with the
Public Broadcasting Service
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for 15 years reporting for ''
Nightly Business Report''. He was also a
New York City
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bureau chief.
Cavuto joined Fox News in July 1996, and became host and managing editor of ''
Your World with Neil Cavuto'' when the network launched in October. He became a vice president of FOX Business News in March 2006. He serves all three positions concurrently. ''Your World'' is Fox's main business news program.
He has five nominations for
Cable ACE awards. He is the author of ''More Than Money'' and ''Your Money or Your Life''. Both books were ''New York Times'' best sellers.
A frequent critic of President
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of P ...
, Cavuto has been labeled a "Trump skeptic" by
NPR and ''
The Daily Beast
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It has been characterized as a "high-end tabloid" by Noah Shachtman, the site's editor-in-chief from 2018 to 2021. In a 20 ...
''. In February 2020, Trump dedicated 20 minutes of a rally in
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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to attacking him.
Personal life
Cavuto and his wife, Mary Fulling, whom he married on October 15, 1983, have three children. They live in
Mendham Borough, New Jersey.
Cavuto experiences health problems, saying:
I don't hide that I have had a tough life in many respects. I fought back a near-life-ending cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal b ...
, only to end up with multiple sclerosis
Multiple (cerebral) sclerosis (MS), also known as encephalomyelitis disseminata or disseminated sclerosis, is the most common demyelinating disease, in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged. This ...
years later. Doctors have since told me that the odds of contracting both diseases in the same life are something like two million to one! Yet here I am, marching on, continuing to do my job when doctors who've examined my scans and MRIs tell me I shouldn't be walking or talking.
As reported on June 22, 2016, by
Charles Payne on ''Your World'', Cavuto had undergone, and was recovering from, recent cardiac surgery.
In October 2021, Cavuto tested positive for
COVID-19
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. He had been vaccinated, and said: "Had I not been vaccinated, and with all my medical issues, this would be a far more dire situation. It's not, because I did and I'm surviving this because I did." He subsequently contracted the disease a second time, and was hospitalized with pneumonia. After recovering, he again praised the efficacy of vaccines and advocated their use.
Authored books
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See also
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New Yorkers in journalism
References
External links
Neil Cavuto's Bio on FoxBusiness.com– Cavuto on his first book. 2004-08-31
Neil Cavutoon
The Daily Show
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