HOST Greg Gutfeld opened up about his ‘selfish’ life before becoming a father at 60 years old.
Gutfeld, known for his bold humor on his late-night show on Fox News, examined his lifestyle before having children and how parenthood altered his priorities.
Reflecting through a personal piece, the freshly minted parent shared that his focus on self-interest had been key to his achievements but acknowledged the need for a change now that he has a child.
“Becoming a parent at this stage of my life is urging me to grasp concepts that many grasp in their 20s, 30s, or 40s – the realization that your thoughts should extend beyond yourself. Adapting to this truth is proving to be a challenge for me,” he confessed in his essay on Fox News.
“Once you have a kid, you can’t regret anything you did before that because to change the past would erase the possibility of that child.”
Gutfeld said his “entire home has changed” since his wife Elena Moussa, 42, gave birth to their daughter Mira in December.
The host and his wife quite literally changed homes in July 2024 when they bought a $10.5 million loft in SoHo, New York, which has more than enough room for their growing family, Realtor.com reported.
In his essay, he praised his wife’s resilience during childbirth, comparing it to a “nine-month tour of duty” that ends with “exhaustion and hormones.”
“And for that reason, we should treat moms like conquering heroes,” he wrote.
When discussing fatherhood on The Five, the host said he’s “terrible at everything.”
“I give emotional support, but you know, Elena is kind of, like, pretty hands-on and keeps me away from it,” he said.
“She said to me that I’m terrible at everything, like, she says, I’m very clumsy.”
The comedian announced the birth of his daughter in a comical post on X.
“See, that’s how you keep a secret,” he posted on December 10.
“Thank you all for the nice words! See you in a few!”
Gutfeld first met Moussa during a business trip to Portugal in 2004.
The comedian was an editor at Maxim UK at the time, and his wife worked as a photo editor for Maxim Russia, People reported.
During an appearance on the Club Random podcast hosted by Bill Maher, the political pundit said he knew Moussa was his wife from the second he saw her.
Greg Gutfeld’s statement on his newborn
During his absence on The Five, Gutfeld’s co-host Dana Perino shared a statement from the comedian on his newborn daughter:
“It is with great joy that my wife Elena and I have welcomed a baby girl into the world. Mira is healthy with a real set of lungs. She has Elena’s beautiful eyes and my rock-hard abs. We are hard at work teaching her three languages and putting her through rigorous workout routines. She is already very observant and has asked if Jesse (Waters) wears a toupee. I told her that he definitely wears a wig.'”
“I met her and I go, ‘Oh, that’s my wife.’ I just knew it,” he recalled.
“And then I spent three days in Portugal trying to talk to her.”
The couple were married only five months after knowing each other, and despite their public careers, they’ve kept most of their relationship relatively private.
The couple proudly displayed their french bulldog Gus all over social media.
Gus joined their family in October 2022. and has since become a star on the comedian’s Instagram, making weekly appearances.
Aside from their adoption of Gus, the couple made also headlines in 2022 when Gutfeld announced, in support of his wife and her family, that he would adjust his show’s regular schedule to allow for more coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war.
Moussa was born in Russia but moved to the US with her husband, however, the rest of her family relocated to Ukraine.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Gutfeld worked with his Fox News coworkers to rescue Moussa’s mother from the country.
Moussa and her mother reunited in an emotional video where the designer embraced her mother and whispered, “Thank God” in Russian.
Gutfeld thanked his Fox News peers reporting from Ukraine, calling them “unbelievably awesome” and “heroes.”
GUTFELD’S CAREER
The comedian first joined Fox News in 2011 after working as editor-in-chief at of Stuff and Maxim magazine in the U.K.
He frequently contributed to the Huffington Post and became known for his “inspired, lunatic ridicule of his leftwing fellow Huffers.”
The editor later joined Fox News as a co-host on the roundtable talk show, The Five, and has since amassed a dedicated following.
Four years after joining the network, Gutfeld started his own late-night show called Gutfeld!, which airs weeknights at 10 pm.
On his late-night talk show, Gutfeld, along with other panelists such as Kat Timpf, parodies current events and comedically discusses current events.
