Des Kelly

Kelly is the lead reporter and interviewer for British broadcaster, BT Sport. He is part of the live broadcast team for the channel's Champions League, Premier League, Europa League and FA Cup coverage. He has been nominated as SJA Broadcast Journalist of the Year for 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 - and highly commended in 2017 and 2018.

Kelly lives in Bristol. Born in London of an Irish family, he was educated at Wimbledon College and has a University of Surrey BA (Hons) in English and History from Froebel College in Roehampton, London. He is married to dress designer Paulina. Their engagement was announced in The Times on 26 December 2014. They married on 17 June 2015 at the Bristol Planetarium. TV presenter Carol Vorderman is a former girlfriend. They lived together in central London from early 2001 and split in December 2006. They rekindled the relationship in October 2007 but split again in 2010.

Kelly previously presented over 150 editions of a live, late-night sport/entertainment show on BT Sport called Follow the Football with Des Kelly previously known as Life's A Pitch with Des Kelly. He was also executive producer of the programme, which originally launched on 5 August 2013 and was nominated for SJA Television Show of the Year in 2013. Kelly simultaneously presented SportsHUB, BT Sport's sports news programme, from Monday to Thursday, until the show closed in 2015.

Des has made television appearances on the BBC's Match of the Day 2 and was the first journalist to appear as a pundit on either show. He has also guested on Channel 4's Clive Anderson's Sports Talk Show, Sky Sports' Hold the Back Page show and one of his first assignments was to provide live reports for Sky News from England's 3–0 win over Poland in 1989. He has been a contributor to a number of programmes, including BBC's The Noughties... Was That It? and Britain's Most Annoying People as well as GMTV and others.

In 2012 Kelly was named among the top 10 most influential sportswriters in Britain by the trade publication, UK Press Gazette.

Kelly was a long-standing presenter on talkSPORT, the commercial national radio station which broadcasts from London across the United Kingdom. He is the former host of The Press Pass, a show introduced on the first weekend of the Premier League season in August 2011. It was twice nominated as SJA Sports Radio Programme of the Year. He quit in August 2014 to concentrate on his BT commitments, but is still an occasional presenter and contributor.

Kelly was part of the BBC1's Inside Sport presenting team, which was hosted by Gabby Logan between 2007 and 2009. His contributions included interviews with Michael Schumacher, Arsène Wenger, Petr Čech and a piece on GB Blind Football.

He has completed two London Marathons, the Network Q Rally of Great Britain twice, the Arctic Rally, the Belgium Bianchi Rally and others. He took part in the world's first two-seater F1 race with Fernando Alonso at Donington Park. He completed in the 2007 Isle of Wight Round The Island race on board an Extreme 40 sailing boat, made a parachute jump for MENCAP, has run with the bulls in Pamplona and climbed Kilimanjaro as part of a Football League team raising funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care in the summer of 2011.

Kelly was a sports columnist on the Daily Mail for nearly a decade, having joined the paper in 2004.

Previously, Kelly was the Acting Editor and Deputy Editor of the Daily Mirror. Kelly replaced Piers Morgan after he was sacked for publishing faked photos of Iraqi prisoners being "tortured" by British troops and edited the paper in the wake of that controversy. Kelly was also 'forced out' of the Mirror later in 2004 when Richard Wallace was handed the position.

Desmond "Des" Kelly (born 19 February 1965) is a British journalist and broadcaster.