Des Kelly | |
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 Kelly presents pitchside at the 2019 UEFA Champions League Final | |
| Born | Desmond Kelly 19 February 1965 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, broadcaster |
Desmond Kelly (born 19 February 1965) is a British journalist and broadcaster.
Kelly was the Chief Reporter and interviewer for British broadcaster BT Sport for a decade. He was part of the live broadcast team mainly for the channel's Champions League and Premier League coverage. He was nominated as SJA Broadcast Journalist of the Year for 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 - and highly commended in 2017 and 2018.[1]
Kelly presented 136 editions of Life's A Pitch with Des Kelly, a live, late-night sport/entertainment show on BT Sport. It was rebranded Follow the Football with Des Kelly for the new season in 2014. Kelly 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.[2] Kelly simultaneously presented SportsHUB, BT Sport's sports news programme, from Monday to Thursday, until the show closed in 2015. He left when BT Sport transitioned to TNT Sports.
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 in 2011 and 2012. Kelly quit in August 2014 to concentrate on his BT commitments, but is still an occasional contributor.
- ^ "Media release: Winners at the British Sports Journalism awards". Sports Journalists' Association. 26 February 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
- ^ "Des Kelly presents Life's a Pitch".