NEIL Cavuto is a steady figure on Fox News, but the anchor has faced his fair share of health issues over the years. The 63-year-old New York native is the host of three different television programs: Your World with Neil Cavuto, Cavuto Live, and Cavuto: Coast to Coast. What happened to Neil Cavuto? Despite his […]
NEIL Cavuto is a steady figure on Fox News, but the anchor has faced his fair share of health issues over the years.
The 63-year-old New York native is the host of three different television programs: Your World with Neil Cavuto, Cavuto Live, and Cavuto: Coast to Coast.
Despite his busy schedule, Neil Cavuto has been dealing with health concerns for most of his career.
In 1987, Neil was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer that attacks the body’s immune system.
He was diagnosed just a few years into his career after he graduated from St. Bonaventure University with a Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication in 1980.
Neil went on to receive radiation and chemotherapy.
Ten years after his initial diagnosis, the television personality began experiencing symptoms again.
“I was stumbling and falling,” the Fox News Channel anchor remembers of the summer of 1997, as he explained to People in 2002.
“I would wake up prickly. My legs felt like stilts.”
He was then diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative neurological disease.
“For three or four days I was silent,” he continued at the time.
“I didn’t want to talk to anyone. I was very angry at the world. What the hell did I do? Was I a Nazi stormtrooper in a prior life?”
Neil Cavuto has maintained his career despite his diagnosis – however, he has not been seen on TV since January of 2022.
“When it’s really bad, my shoulders can’t move, my head is spinning, I can’t feel my arms or my legs,” Neil previously said, according to Health.com.
“I’m not a cause and I’m not a statement,” he continued. “I want to be judged on what I do, not the disease I have.”
“It sucks, but life doesn’t suck,” he said.
On Monday, January 17, 2022, Charles Payne tweeted he would be guest-hosting Your World with Neil Cavuto.
On Thursday, January 20, 2022, America Reports co-anchor Sandra Smith hosted the program. She also hosted the show on Thursday, January 27.
Payne returned as guest host of the program on Monday, January 24.
During the week of January 24, Fox Business host Jackie DeAngelis guest-hosted Cavuto: Coast to Coast.
She also guest-hosted his weekend program, Cavuto Live, on Saturday, January 29.
Throughout February, his shows have seen Payne and Smith continue their posts.
David Asman has also joined the roster of guest hosts.
In 2021, the host – who shares three kids with his wife, Mary Fulling, whom he married in October 1983 – went on vacation and has since resumed hosting his shows.
Some viewers were less than thrilled when he came back.
In late May of last year, he returned to Your World from vacation and opened the show by reading off some angry emails he had received.
“Welcome, everybody. I’m Neil Cavuto and this is Your World, and a lot of you preferred having Your World with someone else doing the show, apparently,” he joked at the time.
“D**n, you’re still alive?!! I kept looking in the obituaries but I knew something was up when I couldn’t find you,” the first email said.
He replied: “Sorry to keep disappointing you.”
One particular email actually referenced his difficult health issues, but Neil took it in stride.
“I know you deal with a lot of health issues, so I figure I won’t have to put up with you forever, right?” the email read.
Neil, after a look at the camera, responded, “Well, you know what? Just for that, yeah, forever, alright? Deal with that.”
On October 19, 202, Cavuto revealed that he had been diagnosed with Covid-19.
The same afternoon, he was missing from his usual news show. He was present on “Your World” the previous Monday: October 18.
“While I’m somewhat stunned by this news, doctors tell me I’m lucky as well,” Cavuto said in a statement shared by Fox News Media.
“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.”
Adding: “I hope anyone and everyone gets that message loud and clear. Get vaccinated, for yourself and everyone around you. Everyone wins, except maybe my wife, who thought I was back in the city for good for live shows. Maybe not so fast now.”
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