Background
DeCaro grew up in Little Falls, New Jersey, and graduated in 1980 from Passaic Valley Regional High School in Little Falls.
DeCaro grew up in Little Falls, New Jersey, and graduated in 1980 from Passaic Valley Regional High School in Little Falls.
The New York-born DeCaro is the author of The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: A Resurrection of Recipes From More Than 145 Stars of Stage and Screen (Human Computer Interaction Books, 2011), its sequel, "The Dead Celebrity Cookbook Presents Christmas in Tinseltown: Celebrity Recipes and Hollywood Memories from Six Feet Under the Mistletoe" (Human Computer Interaction, 2012), Unmistakably Mackie: The Fashion and Fantasy of Bob Mackie (Universe, 1999), and A Boy Named Phyllis: A Suburban Memoir (Viking 1996). A 1984 graduate of Northwestern University"s Medill School of Journalism, in the 1980s, DeCaro was a media critic writer for the Detroit Free Press and later the Detroit News. He came into the public eye with his recurring commentary Out at the Movies on The Daily Show, doing movie reviews, with his characteristically flamboyant gay style, from 1996 to 2003.
During those years, he co-wrote and hosted five Oscar preview specials for Comedy Central.
He was a panelist on a short-lived remake of the classic television game show I"ve Got a Secret, on GSN. A journalist whose column on classic television appears in Columbia Broadcasting System"s Watch! Magazine, DeCaro has written for the New York Times Arts & Leisure, Home and Styles sections. Foreign several years, he wrote the funny-but-chic "Style Over Substance" column for that paper.
His writing has appeared in myriad publications including The New York Times Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Vogue and Martha Stewart Living. Beginning in 2004, he was the host of a live daily radio show with producer/co-host Doria Biddle for SIRIUS XM OutQ 109, the Frank DeCaro Show, which aired its last broadcast on February 10, 2016.
He was also a frequent guest on The Jason Ellis Show on Sirius Faction.
His many television appearances include National Broadcasting Company"s Dateline, Cable News Network"s Showbiz Tonight and various programs for the Logo and Here! networks. DeCaro did a cameo role for the 2012 feature film BearCity 2: The Proposal.