Neil Patrick Cavuto (born September 22, 1958) is an American television news anchor, executive, commentator, and business journalist.
[1] Cavuto was born in Westbury, New York, on Long Island, the son of Kathleen T. (Feeley), a United Nations staffer and homemaker, and Patrick "Pat" Cavuto, a can company sales executive.
[17] On December 19, 2024, it was announced that Cavuto would be leaving Fox News after 28 years on air after declining to accept a new contract from the network.
[18][19] Cavuto has experienced numerous health problems,[20] saying: "I don't hide that I have had a tough life in many respects.
I fought back a near-life-ending cancer, only to end up with multiple sclerosis years later.
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.
"[21] As reported on June 22, 2016, by Charles Payne on Your World, Cavuto had undergone, and was recovering from, recent cardiac surgery.