Clinton Kelly (TV personality)

Clinton Kelly
Kelly at a fashion event in 2006
Born	(1969-02-22) February 22, 1969 (age 48) Panama City, Panama
Alma mater	Boston College Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism
Occupation	Fashion consultant
Years active	1993-present
Spouse(s)	Damon Bayles (m. 2009)
Website	www.clintonkelly.com

Clinton Kelly (born February 22, 1969) is an American fashion consultant and media personality known for his role as co-host on What Not to Wear, a reality program that featured fashion makeovers. He shared on-air duties with Stacy London. Kelly started his career as a freelance writer for several fashion magazines. Although he still continues to write, he has since expanded into fashion consulting and designing. In 2011, Kelly joined the cast as the moderator of ABC's daytime cooking show The Chew.

Kelly was born in Panama City, Panama, of Irish and Italian ancestry, and raised in Port Jefferson Station, Long Island, New York. He graduated from Comsewogue High School in 1987. He attended Boston College and graduated with a degree in communications in 1991; he was president of Boston College's University Chorale. After college, he attained his master's degree in journalism, specializing in magazine publishing, from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1993.

Before joining What Not to Wear as co-host, Kelly hosted a program in the mid-90s on the short-lived QVC spin-off network Q2, and worked as a freelance writer and editor at several publications in New York. Kelly was an editor at Marie Claire and a deputy editor at Mademoiselle, where he contributed under the pseudonym "Joe L'Amour". He later became the executive editor of the Daily News Record, a New York-based weekly men's fashion and retail trade magazine.