Jessica Tarlov

Jessica Tarlov (born March 9, 1984) is an American political strategist for the Democratic Party who is a rotating co-host of The Five on Fox News.

Background Tarlov was raised in Tribeca, Manhattan, the daughter of Judith (née Roberts), a screenwriter, and Mark Tarlov, an attorney and film producer. She is of Jewish descent.

Career

Tarlov is Vice President of Research & Consumer Insights at the Bustle Digital Group.

She was on Boris Johnson's 2008 London mayoral campaign.

In 2008, she served as research assistant for political analyst and regular Fox News contributor Douglas Schoen who encouraged the network to put her on the air. She officially was named contributor in 2017.

In January 2022, Tarlov was named co-host on The Five, where she serves as a rotating co-host along with Harold Ford Jr.

In October 2024, Tarlov told The New York Times that her goals at Fox News include presenting to its viewers "a reasonable and data-driven representative of the left," while also demonstrating to the majority of American people, "[except for] MAGA die-hards", that "ideological foes can get along". He was an attorney and movie producer, who died from cancer in 2021.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tarlov began dating her next-door neighbor, hedge-fund executive Brian McKenna. She announced her engagement to McKenna on the Kennedy program on the Fox Business Network in April 2021. The two married weeks later, and Tarlov gave birth to her daughter Cleo in December 2021. On January 10, 2024, she announced on Fox News' The Five that she was expecting her second child, a girl, in April. On April 15, 2024; Tarlov's second daughter was born, named Teddy.

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