Clinton Kelly (TV personality)

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Clinton Kelly
Born	(1969-02-22) February 22, 1969 (age 55) Panama City, Florida
Website	http://www.clintonkelly.com/

Clinton Kelly (born February 22, 1969) is an American fashion consultant, media personality, and co-host on the makeover reality program What Not to Wear with Stacy London.

Kelly hails from Long Island and was raised in Port Jefferson Station. He graduated from Comsewogue High School in Port Jefferson Station, New York in 1987. During his undergraduate years, Kelly attended Boston College as a Communications major, graduating in 1991. While a student at Boston College, he was the president of the University Chorale. Kelly also has a master's degree in journalism (MSJ), specifically in magazine publishing, from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, which he was awarded in 1993. Before becoming co-host of What Not to Wear, Kelly worked as a freelance writer and editor at several publications in New York. He was the executive editor of Daily News Record, a New York-based weekly men's fashion and retail trade magazine. Before that, he was an editor at Marie Claire and a deputy-editor at Mademoiselle, where he was also a contributor under the pseudonym "Joe L’Amour".^[1][2]

It was while he was working at Daily News Record that What Not to Wear decided to recast its male lead and reached out to Kelly. After three auditions and two short weeks, Kelly became the new co-host, alongside Stacy London, of What Not to Wear.

A man whose biggest fashion pet peeve is “the pajamification of America,” Kelly advocates that “If you don’t have fit, you don’t have anything,” stressing the importance of learning the basics: shoulder seams should sit on your shoulders, your jackets should always close, your buttons shouldn’t pull, and your pants should hang about a half-inch from the ground.^{[citation needed]}

• Official Site
• Clinton Kelly at IMDb