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Brian Kilmeade was born May 7, 1964 in Long Island, New York. His mother, Marie, and father James, had two other children: Jim and Steven. Brian was the middle child. When Brian's father, James, died suddenly in 1979, Marie was a single mother who went back to work full time and raised three teenagers. When she died on September 12, 2018, her obituary listed her as "one of America's original soccer moms." Indeed, Brian is a lifelong soccer fan, playing throughout his education and career and currently coaching in his spare time.

Brian graduated from Massapequa High School in 1982 before moving on to Long Island University C.W. Post in Brookville, New York. There he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications with a minor in Political Science in 1986.

Brian's first career position was as a correspondent for Channel One News, a daily national high school television news program. He later served as an anchor and host for KHSC-TV in Ontario, California. He hosted The Jim Brown Show on XTRA-AM in San Diego, an all-sports radio network. In 1993 he was invited to announce the inaugural Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC 1) event. He initially conducted post-fight interviews, but in future years was able to give play-by-play accounts for UFC 2 and UFC 3.

In 1997 Brian moved to Hartford, Connecticut as a freelance sports anchor for WVIT (NBC). He was a sideline reporter for the MSG Network and covered the New York/New Jersey MetroStars, a major league soccer team based in Giants Stadium. Continuing with sports, he worked as a feature reporter and anchor for Newsport TV and hosted a daily magazine show for the national sports network titled Newsport Journal. He anchored Scoreboard Central, a live half-hour program dedicated to general sports. In April 2006, Brian filled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Snow">Tony Snow</a>'s spot on the Fox News Radio. During his sports anchor progression, he also developed ten years of experience doing stand up comedy.

Brian is known for being controversial, saying things which are unpopular and which he sometimes later recants or apologizes for. His show, Fox and Friends, has recently had its highest rated year in the channel's history with 1.5 million viewers. Thus, he's even more of a household face and for some, a target. In early October 2018 Brian was accosted while walking to the subway in midtown Manhattan and Penn Station. The two men, Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler, mocked him for his apparent friendship with <a href="/biography/donald-trump">President</a> <a href="/biography/donald-trump">Trump</a> and political statements. Brian said he "never for a second" felt physically unsafe during the encounter and that he wouldn't be changing his behavior. "I'm going to do the same thing every day", he explained. "I'm going to still take the subway. I'm still taking the train home. That's the quickest way for me to get home. So, I'm doing that, and if people want to yell and scream, they can yell and scream."

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Some of the statements that have drawn Brian criticism include "We keep marrying other species and other ethnics" during a July 8, 2009 discussion. On July 20, 2009, Brian apologized and stated "I made comments that were offensive to many people. That was not my intention, and looking back at those comments I realize they were inappropriate. For that I sincerely apologize." Another occurred on September 20, 2017 when Brian mentioned that <a href="/biography/jimmy-kimmel">Jimmy Kimmel</a> was "pushing politics on the rest of the country" after <a href="/biography/jimmy-kimmel">Kimmel</a> openly referenced his son's congenital heart defect and the need for more accessible healthcare. <a href="/biography/jimmy-kimmel">Kimmel</a> retaliated to Brian's comment calling him a "phony little creep."

Brian has written 5 books, four of which have become New York Times bestsellers. They include "The Games Do Count", "It's How You Play the Game", "George Washington's Secret Six" (based on the Culper ring spies who worked for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington">George Washington</a> during the American Revolution), "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> and the Tripoli Pirates" and "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson">Andrew Jackson</a> and the Miracle of New Orleans" which was co-written with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Yaeger">Don Yaeger</a>. Combined, he has amassed more than 2.5 million readers from all over the world. When asked of his motivations, he stated that he desired to "talk about how our country progressed and how close we came to total annihilation." "People might understand a little bit more about where we came from to appreciate where we are." Specifically, when focusing on the Battle of New Orleans and the War of 1812 in his latest novel, Brian stated "the odds of us winning were so infinitesimal that it was worth explaining how we did it in such an overwhelming way and it leads me back to Jackson, a self-made American-born militia general who inspired these guys to this incredible victory, who was a composite of America: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw">Choctaw Indians</a>, freed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw">men</a> of color, you had regular marines, you had militia, you had Tennessee and Kentucky sharpshooters, everyone from the town from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajuns">Cajuns</a> to pirates, they combined to take out the British."

His next work will focus on Tennessee <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston">figure</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston">Sam Houston</a>, who was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston">protege</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson">Andrew Jackson</a>. When asked why he chose <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston">Sam</a>, Brian answered "I got lucky. I mean I don't want to do the civil war. I just feel it's overdone and I can't bring anything new to it and it's so divisive. So I said, what can I do in between? And then when I found out from reading <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston">Sam Houston</a> biographies ...that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston">Sam Houston</a> is fighting in the Creek battles with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson">Jackson</a> and that he was wounded, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson">Jackson</a> walked over to the wounded guys and says 'I need another surge I got to finish these guys off tonight' and with a bullet in his leg he gets up and fights with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson">Jackson</a>, takes ANOTHER bullet, and thought he was doing to die. And then lives, and then he walks back to Washington as he heals, and sees it burn to the ground. And I go, 'this is a perfect way to pick up where <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson">Jackson</a> left off'.

Brian married Dawn DeGaetano on December 3, 1993 to the song "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and The News. Together they have three children: Brian, Kirstyn, and Kaitlyn. The family resides in Massapequa, New York where Brian was born and raised. They have a Burmanese dog named Duke. Weekday mornings Brian co-hosts Fox's morning show, Fox & Friends with <a href="/biography/steve-doocy">Steve Doocy</a> and <a href="/biography/ainsley-earhardt">Ainsley Earhardt</a>. He also hosts the popular Fox News Radio program Kilmeade and Friends. Brian states that when he's not working, you can still find him on the soccer field watching or coaching.

Brian's Facebook, @Kilmeade, has over 208,000 followers. His Instagram, @kilmeade, has more than 120,000 followers. His Twitter, @kilmeade, has 377,000 followers. His official website can be found at http://www.briankilmeade.com.

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