Bill O’Reilly completed his elementary education from the Westbury High School before joining the Chaminade High School. After graduating from there, he then joined to Marist College, at New York and studied history. At that time, Bill played for the National Club Football Association as a punter and was also a writer for the school newspaper, The Circle. Later, he enrolled at Boston University and earned a Master of Arts degree in broadcast journalism. Correspondingly, Bill also received a mid-career master of public administration degree from the Harvard’s University.
Talented Bill started his career as a news anchor and reporter at a television station, WNEP-TV in Dallas where he reported the weather and news. With his incredible talent, later Dallas Press Club awarded him for his excellence investigating reporting. He then joined the KMGH-TV, where he won the local Emmy Award for covering the news of skyjacking.
Bill is considered as one of the conservative commentators of the current time and has registered as a member of the Independence Party of New York. Likewise, he is also the author of books like Culture Warrior, A Bold fresh Piece of Humanity, The no-spin zone, Pinheads and Patriots, Who’s looking out for you, etc. Recently, Bill has written the books Old School: Life in the Sane Lane, The Day the World Went Nuclear: Dropping the Atom Bomb and the End of World.
At least seven women who worked for him accused Bill O’Reilly of sexual harassment. Currently, Fox News and Bill had paid more than $13 million to settle lawsuits. On April 19, 2017, after investigating the sexual harassment, Fox News Company terminated the O’Reilly.
Moving towards his personal life, Bill was found to be married to his wife Maureen E. McPhilmy since November 2, 1996. The couple married at St.Brigid of Westbury. After 14 years of their marriage, when Maureen came to know that his husband was cheating her. Thus, she decided to be separate with him. Nevertheless, the couple finalized their divorce on September 1, 2011. The couple has a daughter and son named Madeline O’Reilly and Spencer O’Reilly respectively. Moving towards his nationality and ethnicity, Bill is white American.
Political commentator, Bill has earned huge amount of money by his multi-professions. According to 2017, his net worth is estimated to around $85 million.
