NEIL Cavuto is a steady figure on Fox News, but the anchor has faced his fair share of health issues over the years, including a recent Covid-19 diagnosis.
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.
But despite his busy schedule, he has been dealing with health concerns for most of his career.
The Fox News host is still around but often deals with quite a bit of pain while he’s filming his TV shows.
In 1987, Neil was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It’s 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 degree in mass communication in 1980.
He received radiation and chemotherapy, but ten years later, the television personality began experiencing worrying 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.”
But the symptoms were not actually due to the lymphoma. Instead, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative neurological disease.
“For three or four days I was silent,” he told People.
“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 hasn’t let his diagnosis defeat him. He told the viewers of Your World with Neil Cavuto what was going on, and kept working.
“When it’s really bad, my shoulders can’t move, my head is spinning, I can’t feel my arms or my legs,” he told People.
But he’s determined to keep doing his job and moving forward.
“I’m not a cause and I’m not a statement,” Cavuto told the outlet. “I want to be judged on what I do, not the disease I have.”
“It sucks, but life doesn’t suck,” he said.
“You can look see blind spots. My hand would feel at the bad news and forget the good or you can balance them.”
Now, Neil hosts three shows on Fox News and Fox Business Network and doesn’t seem to have plans to stop anytime soon.
On August 2, 2021, Fox Business correspondent Jackie DeAngelis tweeted she was filling in for Cavuto on his Fox Business show, Cavuto: Coast to Coast that day.
Another Fox network contributor, Charles Payne, filled in for Cavuto on Monday on Fox News’ Your World with Neil Cavuto.
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, he returned to Your World from vacation, and opened the show by reading off some angry emails he had received upon his return.
“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.
“Damn, 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 he read said, and Cavuto 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, Cavuto revealed that he had been diagnosed with Covid-19.
That Tuesday afternoon, he was missing from his usual news show. He was present on “Your World” 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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