Who Is Brian Kilmeade’s Wife, Dawn Kilmeade? Explore His Family And Net Worth

Brian Kilmeade is an American radio and television presenter and Fox News-affiliated political commentator.

He is also a co-host for the morning show, Fox & Friends, on the weekdays alongside Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt. On the weekends, the show is hosted by Will Cain, Rachel Campos-Duffy, and Pete Hegseth.

Kilmeade also hosts the Fox News Radio program The Brian Kilmeade Show. Kilmeade also has his weekend show called One Nation with Brian Kilmeade.

One Nation with Brian Kilmeade premiered on January 29, 2022, but Kilmeade is perhaps best known for authoring and co-authoring many fiction and non-fiction books.

He has authored or co-authored seven books. They are:

• The Games Do Count
• It’s How You Play the Game
• George Washington’s Secret Six
• Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
• Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans
• Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers
• The President and the Freedom Fighter

Quick Facts About Brian Kilmeade

Who Is Brian Kilmeade’s Wife, Dawn Kilmeade?

Brian Kilmeade is married to his wife, Dawn Kilmeade, though not much is known about the conservative’s wife.

Kilmeade married Dawn DeGaetano on December 3, 1993, and they have been married.

Dawn DeGaetano was born in New York City on April 17, 1964, like her husband. However, the exact Burrough of the city is unknown.

She seems caucasian, like her husband, and has long, flowing blonde hair. She once had red hair, as evidenced by some pictures of the pair that can be found online.  She seems to be a couple of inches shorter than her husband, who is known to be five feet and ten inches tall.

Also, in every picture of hers online, she seems to have kept in relatively good shape and looks much younger than her current age of 58.

Despite being in enviable shape, Dawn seems to be wary of public life, and aside from accompanying her husband to certain events, she has not made her presence known online, even though her husband is a very popular figure in conservative media.

Dawn does not have much social media presence, and her husband, Brian, does not post about her on his social media.

Kilmeade posts more about his dog than his wife and his children. As such, everything to do about Dawn Kilmeade is a mystery.

How Many Children Does Brian Kilmeade Have?

Conservative pundit Brian Kilmeade and his wife Dawn have three children together.

The three children are a son, Bryan Kilmeade, and two daughters, Kirstyn Kilmeade and Kaitlyn Kilmeade. As with his wife, not much is known about Brian Kilmeade’s children other than their names.

The newsman does not post about them on his social media, and their social media seems to be under wraps, perhaps for fear of retaliation from people who might hold something against Kilmeade for his incendiary views.

However, some pictures of the family are available online, showing them as a loving family. Their son, Bryan, seems to be the oldest. All three children have brunette hair and seem tanned in all available pictures.

Kilmeade’s first-born, Bryan, graduated from Syracuse University in 2018 with a degree in Sports Management.

He also did his minors in Sports Analytics and Economics. According to various sources, young Bryan has a passion for Sports Analytics, salary cap management, and player personnel. The young boy started a job soon after graduating at XFL as their football operations coordinator in October 2018.

XFL is an American football league based in Arlington, Texas, though whether Bryan moved or not has not been revealed to the public.

Unlike Bryan, not much is known about Kilmeade’s two daughters.

However, the youngest has proven to be a talented little girl, as she has an interest in musical theater and has become part of Body Language Dance Studio. The studio is based on Merrick Road in Kilmeade’s hometown of Massapequa, New York.

More About Brian Kilmeade’s Family

Conservative pundit Brian Kilmeade was born in Massapequa, New York, on May 7, 1964.

Kilmeade was born to Marie Rose D’Andrea and James Kilmeade Junior. He was the second son of the couple after they married in 1960.

James Kilmeade Junior was born in 1931 and, in turn, was the son of James Kilmeade Senior, born in 1905 in Longford, Ireland. Kilmeade Senior came to New York in 1925 and subsequently became a citizen of the United States of America in 1930.

Marie Rose D’Andrea, on the other hand, was born in Ozone Park in 1934 and raised in St. Albans, Queens. As such, Brian Kilmeade has a deep connection and history within New York City.

He attended and graduated from Massapequa High School in 1982, and after attended LIU Post in Brookville, New York, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986.

Brian Kilmeade’s Net Worth In 2022

Conservative Pundit Brian Kilmeade has an estimated net worth of $27 million as of 2022.

Kilmeade has made wealth from his television career alongside his many books and publishing. He started his career as a Channel One News correspondent. Channel One News was a daily national high school television news program.

After his success as a Channel One News correspondent, Kilmeade became an anchor and host for Chico, California’s KHSL-TV. He also co-hosted The Jim Brown Show on KLSD, an all-sports radio network.

These early works showed Kilmeade’s versatility in tackling many different topics and projects.

This versatility led to him joining Jim Bown as a member of the inaugural 1993 Ultimate Fighting Championship event’s announcing team. Kilmeade was not only a member but also conducted post-fight interviews.

He saw huge success in this role and moved into the play-by-play role for UFC 2 and UFC 3 in 1994.

Not much is known about his career for the next three years, but beginning in 1997, Kilmeade became a freelance sports anchor for WVIT in the Connecticut city of Hartford. He also became a sideline reporter for the MSG network’s coverage of Major League Soccer.

Kilmeade focused on the MetroStars, now known as the New York Red Bulls. His sports career extended to him as a feature reporter and anchor for Newsport.

While in Newsport, he hosted the channel’s daily magazine show NewSport Journal and anchored Scoreboard Central, a half-hour general sports program filmed live.

When Did Brian Kilmeade Join Fox News?

Brian Kilmeade joined Fox News in earnest in 1998 and has co-hosted their morning television show, Fox and Freinds.

As stated above, he has been co-hosting the show with Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt. His connection with Fox News deepened in April 2016. After Fox News Radio anchor Tony Snow left the network to become the George W. Bush Administration’s official Press Secretary, Kilmeade filled in the time slot.

Kilmeade is also a frequent panelist on The Five, a panel-based talk show. However, most listeners know Kilmeade for his Fox News Radio program, The Brian Kilmeade Show, Fox Nation’s “What made America Great,” and One Nation with Brian Kilmeade.

As of 2022, Kilmeade has deeply entrenched himself into Fox News and conservative culture.

How Did Brian Kilmeade Become Famous?

Of all the Fox-affiliated shows that Kilmeade has been a part of, the one that made his name is Fox and Friends.

The show evolved from Fox X-press, Fox News Channel’s original morning news program. However, after the September 11 attacks, the show had an additional hour attached to it at the beginning of the weekday show. This additional hour then branched off as a Fox and Friends First show.

The show was the first among Fox News shows to air live for the day, starting at 6 AM.

The complicated part is that on July 13, 2008, Fox X-press was discontinued and replaced with an additional hour of Fox and Friends. But then, on March 5, 2012m Fox reintroduced Fox and Friends First as a separate show that again aired before the main program, which was three hours long.

How Rich Is Brian Kilmeade?

Brian Kilmeade is wealthy, with a net worth of over $27 million, but his salary will also surprise the reader.

Kilmeade has an annual salary of $9 million, with a monthly income of over $750,000.

This income makes Kilmdeade one of the most successful and wealthy television anchors in the United States. Kilmeade also has assets worth $16 million, liabilities and loans worth $4 million, and investments worth $15 million.

Besides his $9 million annual salary from Fox News, the news anchor also earns a royalty income of $3 million.

His salary had increased substantially throughout his life, as his first known annual salary was $30,000 back when he was a correspondent on Channel One News.

When he joined Fox News in 1998, he had an annual salary of $100,000, which turned into $6 million after 20 years.

From 2018 to 2022, his salary tripled; it went from $6 million to $ 7 million in 2020, from $7 million to $8 million in 2021, and $8 million to $9 million in 2022.

His salary, too, was almost $9 million lesser in 2018. He had a net worth of $18 million in 2018, which jumped to $21 million in 2019, $24 million in 2020, $26 million in 2021, and currently sits at $27 million.

By this metric, Kilmeade’s net worth and salary are bound to increase substantially next year too, but how much is unknown. Regarding his assets, Kilmeade owns seven real estate properties, five cars, and one luxury yacht.

His cars include an Audi RS Q8 he bought for $600,000 and a Volvo XC90 for $180,000. He owns a Jaguar XE, Range Rover Evoque, and Mercedes-Benz EqC.

His assets portfolio includes cash reserves of over $4 million and an investment portfolio of six stocks valued at $3 million. He owns stores in the following companies:

• Bank of America
• JPMorgan Chase
• Johnson & Johnson, and
• Visa

One impressive thing about Brian Kilmeade is that he hasn’t inherited any generational wealth, which means that he earned his entire net worth by himself over the many decades he has worked on television.

His wise stock market and real estate investments have been earning him a huge amount of income each month.

Brian Kilmeade’s Many Controversies

Despite his immense wealth and fame, Brian Kilmeade has also been mired in many controversies that have made him notorious.

Most of these controversies revolve around Kilmeade’s support for extreme right-wing organizations.

The first occurred when the news anchor faced criticism from the left when he expressed support for the English Defence League, a right-wing group. This group had often been described as an extremist group, and during an interview with their leader, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson, Kilmeade expressed his support.

This sentiment sent shockwaves toward the left. Then on July 8, 2009, when Kilmeade lost his tongue when he and two hosts were discussing a study based on research done in Finland and Sweden about married people being less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. He went on a bizarre tirade about Finns and Swedes marrying their kind and having pure genes, while people in America marry different ethnicities, which he even called different species.

Understandably, people were angry at his remarks, and a couple of weeks later, Kilmeade apologized for his remarks. Kilmeade then infamously stated in 2010 that although not all Muslims are terrorists, all terrorists are Muslims.  He later claimed he misspoke and that he meant the people who attacked America on 9/11.

Most recently, Kilmeade has courted controversy of a different kind by being critical of former president Donald Trump and his actions on the January 6th insurrection.

Some FAQs

Is Brian Kilmeade Married?

Yes, he is married to Dawn DeGaetano Kilmeade

How Many Children Does Brian Kilmeade Have?

He has three children, a son and two daughters

How Much Is Brian Kilmeade’s Net Worth?

He has a net worth of $27 million as of 2022