Gillian Turner, the current FOX News journalist, was born to American parents. She spent most of her youth in Cape Town, South Africa, as well as the remainder of New York City, New York.

Her mother, according to the sources, is a novelist. Turner spent her whole life as a ballet dancer before becoming a writer. She has been a member of the Pennsylvania Ballet since she was eight years old.

Turner, meanwhile, is an American-South American citizen with a white ethnic heritage.