Clayton Morris | |
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| Born | (1976-12-31)December 31, 1976 (age 48) |
| Alma mater | University of Pittsburgh |
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| Children | 3 |
| Website | www |
Clayton Morris (born December 31, 1976[2]) is an AmericanYouTuber,real estate investor, and former television news anchor. He co-hostsRedacted News on the video platformRumble and on his eponymous YouTube channel and a podcast onInvesting in Real Estate.
After co-hostingThe Daily Buzz andGood Day Philadelphia on Fox'sWTXF-TV, he was a co-host ofFox & Friends Weekend onFox News Channel from 2008 to 2017. He covered consumer technology for Fox and hosted weekly technology segments forFox News Radio and Fox News. On September 4, 2017, he left Fox News.[3] His real estate ventures have been the subject of several lawsuits, including one filed by the state of Indiana.
Morris was born inPhiladelphia[4] and attendedWilson High School inSpring Township in Berks County (todayWest Lawn, Pennsylvania), during which time he briefly hosted a comedy show on the local Berks Community Televisionpublic access channel.[5] He graduated with a bachelor's degree from theUniversity of Pittsburgh in 1999.[6]
In 2000, Morris appeared in a low-budget thriller film entitledDeception.[6] His television career began when he was a producer forGood Day LA atKTTV, the Fox-owned television station inLos Angeles.[7]
Morris then went on to reporting and anchoring positions atWVVA inBluefield, West Virginia, and later with theMontana Television Network as a political reporter in the state capital,Helena.[2] He went on to work forThe Daily Buzz, a syndicated television morning show, as news correspondent[8] and later host.[9]
In January 2007, Morris was hired byWTXF-TV, the Fox TV station in Philadelphia, to host its morning show,Good Day Philadelphia.[10] He announced in October 2007 that he would leave the station at year's end.[11] Morris then co-hostedFox & Friends Weekend for Fox News Channel from 2008 to 2017.[12][3]
In 2012, Morris won the seventh annual "New York's Funniest Reporter" contest, which benefits the Humane Society of New York.[13][14]
Morris hosts theInvesting in Real Estate podcast and Morris Invest YouTube channel, and he developed the Financial Freedom Academy, an online financial planning service.[15] Morris and his wifeNatali Morris co-authored a book,How to Pay Off Your Mortgage in 5 Years.[6][15] They also co-host a daily YouTube show on theirRedacted channel.[16]
In March 2019, investors filed more than two dozen lawsuits inIndiana andNew Jersey, claiming that Morris was running aPonzi scheme involving the sales of some houses in C- and D-class neighborhoods that were marketed through his investment company, Morris Invest, inIndianapolis. The investors claimed they were sold rental properties which Morris Invest promised to rehabilitate and rent out, earning them rental income. These properties belonged to Bert Whalen. Some investors claimed that they later discovered the properties they received rental income from for several months were boarded up and vacant, and they began receiving city code and country health department violations. Others found they had purchased vacant lots, small shacks or buildings that were falling down. Morris denied responsibility, asserting he referred investors to Whalen and that Whalen was responsible for managing the properties, even though many investors believed they were dealing directly with Morris.[17] In November 2019, Whalen was indicted by a federal grand jury for defrauding investors; the indictment did not name Morris.[18] Whalen pleaded guilty in March 2022.[19]
Morris sued HoltonWiseTV in federal court in October 2019 for $7.2 million, alleging copyright infringement; the case stemmed from HoltonWiseTV's production of a three-hour documentary investigating the alleged involvement of Morris in various real estate scams. In March 2020, Morris lost the suit.[18][20]
In May 2020, the state of Indiana filed a civil lawsuit against Clayton Morris, among others, for violating Indiana's deceptive sales and home loan acts in real estate deals involving more than 150 properties inMarion County.[21]
He and his wife,Natali,[22][23] have three children and lived inMaplewood, New Jersey,[24] until 2019. They initially planned to move to Pennsylvania in early 2019[25] but moved toPortugal later that year, with Natali Morris citing the "collective soul challenge" in their business as a reason to leave the country.[26] The family at the time had moved to the country on temporary visas to allow their children to attend schools overseas.[25] The move to Portugal drew criticism from investors suing Morris at the time, who worried that his relocation could make it harder for them to retrieve damages if courts found in their favor.[26] As of 2025, Morris and his family live in Colorado.[27]
Back in the day, I produced a little - and I do mean little - comedy show on Berks Community Television. It was called "Late Nite with Clayton Morris" and you knew it was hip because we spelled nite incorrectly on purpose and we used words like hip. At the time, Clayton and I were students at Wilson High School.
'One day I randomly walked into a Home Depot and thought, LED — when did that happen?' said Clayton Morris, 36, a host ofFox & Friends Weekend, who was buying the bulbs in Vauxhall as part of his project to slowly replace the incandescent light bulbs in his Maplewood home.