Her birth name is Zara, but she urged her parents to call her by her middle name Layla after the Derek and the Dominos song.
Layla skipped two grades in the English school system and graduated younger than her classmates [citation needed].
[3] In addition to once hosting MTV2 in Britain and ABC's football halftime show, Kayleigh was once a correspondent for Al Gore's Current TV but was fired after doing an interview and photoshoot with Maxim Magazine.
Kayleigh was also a guest on the Fox News Channel show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.
Kayleigh is a co-host on America's Best Dance Crew on MTV as their on the road correspondent looking for talent in the different cities.
[5] The show, which features Mario Lopez as host premiered on 26 January 2008 with a live casting special and began its first season on 7 February 2008 with Kayleigh as backstage correspondent interviewing the bottom two crews.
On 16 March 2009, episode of Attack of the Show!, Kayleigh announced that she would be leaving G4 due to her pregnancy and going on an indefinite hiatus to be a stay at home mother.