Des Kelly (born 1965) is a British journalist. This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

A sports journalist, and former deputy editor of the Daily Mirror, he replaced the disgraced Piers Morgan temporarily as Acting Editor in the wake of the faked photos of Iraqi prisoners fiasco [1] Alternate newspaper: The Daily Mirror (Australia) The Daily Mirror is a popular British tabloid daily newspaper. ... Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (born 30 March 1965 in Newick, East Sussex) is a former editor of British tabloid newspapers the News of the World (1994 – 1995) and the Daily Mirror (1995 – 2004). ...

Kelly is currently a sports columnist for the Daily Mail, a pundit on BBC1's Inside Sport alongside Gabby Logan, an Executive Consultant for the PR agency Hill & Knowlton [2] and director of the internet company Fast Web Media. The Daily Mail is a British tabloid newspaper first published in 1896. ... BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest United Kingdom, and indeed, the world. ... Gabby Logan (born Gabrielle Nicole Yorath on 24 April 1973) is a British television presenter and former Welsh international gymnast. ... // Hill & Knowlton Who are they? One of the world’s five largest public relations firms, was founded in 1927 by former journalist John Hill. ...

Biography

Born in London of an Irish family, he was educated at Wimbledon College and Froebel College in Roehampton, London. Kelly has a BA (Hons) in English and History from the University of Surrey. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Wimbledon College is a state-maintained voluntary-aided Roman Catholic (Jesuit) secondary school for boys aged 11 to 18. ... Froebel College is one of the four constituent colleges of Roehampton University. ... Roehampton is a place in south London, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ... The University of Surrey received its charter on September 9, 1966, and was at that time situated near Battersea Park in south-west London. ...

Kelly is a former Assistant Editor and Head of Sport of the Daily Express, Football Editor of the Sunday Express and the Chief Sports Reporter of the now defunct Today newspaper. A past winner of the Sports Columnist of the Year award, Kelly has been nominated as Sports Writer of the Year and highly commended twice more since 1999 for his articles.^{[citation needed]} For other uses, see Daily Express (disambiguation). ... The Daily Express is a British newspaper, currently tabloid, and it is owned by Richard Desmond. ... Today was a national newspaper in the United Kingdom. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Kelly is a regular contributor to BBC Radio Five Live on Sportsweek and Fighting Talk. He has made television appearances on the BBC's Match Of The Day 2 - and remains the only journalist to appear as pundit on either Match Of The Day programme. He has also guested on Channel 4's Clive Anderson's Sports Talk Show, Ant and Dec's Family Fortunes on ITV, 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 v 0 win over Poland in 1989. He was previously a columnist for The Sunday Times, has written for GQ, appeared in the German newspaper Bild and also L'Equipe in France. BBC Radio Five Live is the BBCs radio service providing live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries. ... Fighting Talk is a topical sports show broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live during the English football season. ... hello im gary linekar and this is my segment for match of the day Match of the Day (sometimes abbreviated as MotD) is the BBCs main football television programme. ... hello im gary linekar and this is my segment for match of the day Match of the Day (sometimes abbreviated as MotD) is the BBCs main football television programme. ... It has been suggested that Channel Four Television Corporation be merged into this article or section. ... Clive Anderson (born 10 December 1952) is a British former barrister (specialising in criminal law) turned comedy writer and television presenter. ... Ant (left) and Dec appearing in an ITV 1 ident. ... Family Fortunes is a long-running British game show, based on the American game show Family Feud. ... It has been suggested that Channel 3 (UK) be merged into this article or section. ... Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of 9 channels. ... Sky News is a British television News which was founded in February 1989 as part of the four channel Sky Television network. ... The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. ... GQ can refer to several things: Gentlemens Quarterly, a mens magazine The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Equatorial Guinea GQ, a replacement Quake 1 game engine This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same... The Bild-Zeitung (lit. ... LÉquipe (French for the team) is a French nationwide newspaper devoted to sports. ...

At Hill and Knowlton he has been Master of Ceremonies at various corporate nights alongside supermodel Jerry Hall, football manager Arsene Wenger, the BBC Match Of The Day team and chef Antony Worrall Thompson. Jerry Faye Hall (born July 2, 1956 in Gonzales, Texas) is an American supermodel and actress known for being Mick Jaggers long-time companion and possibly wife (in 1990, the two were married in Bali but the legal validity of the marriage has since been questioned). ... Ars ne Wenger (b. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion (US$7. ... hello im gary linekar and this is my segment for match of the day Match of the Day (sometimes abbreviated as MotD) is the BBCs main football television programme. ... Antony Worrall Thompson (born 1 May 1951 in Stratford upon Avon, England) is a British celebrity chef and television presenter who went to school at The Kings School, Canterbury. ...

Kelly is a judge for the Football League Awards and the Laureus World Sports Awards.^{[citation needed]} The Football League is an organisation representing 72 professional football clubs in England and Wales, and runs the oldest professional football league competition in the world. ... The Laureus World Sports Awards are awarded annually to sportspeople who have been outstanding during the previous year. ...

Personal life

His ex- girlfriend is TV presenter Carol Vorderman. After meeting at a Christmas party in 1999, they lived together in London from 2001. The couple also used Kelly's house in Glandore, West Cork, which was sold in the summer of 2006. After more than 5 years together, Vorderman and Kelly separated in December 2006, announcing the amicable split in January 2007.^[1] Carol Jean Vorderman MBE (Born in Prestatyn, North Wales is a Welsh television personality best known for being a long-standing co-presenter of Channel 4 game show Countdown. ...

Trivia

Kelly has completed two London Marathons, competed in the Network Q Rally of Great Britain twice, the Arctic Rally on two occasions, the Belgium Bianchi Rally, Welsh Bulldog rally, and scored the winning goal at Wembley in one of the old stadium's last matches, part of a charity tournament sponsored by Littlewoods. He has also completed a parachute jump for the charity MENCAP. Kelly is one of the few to have been driven at racing speed by two Formula One world champions - Michael Schumacher at Ferrari's test track in Maranello and Fernando Alonso during the world's first two-seater F1 race held at Donnington Park. Runners surge out of the Blackfriars Bridge underpass onto the Victoria Embankment; two miles to go The London Marathon is a road marathon that has been held each year in London since 1981, usually in April. ... Wembley, until 1965 a borough in its own right, forms the northern part of the London Borough of Brent. ... Mencap is a UK charity. ... Michael Schumacher (pronounced / /, born January 3, 1969, in Hürth Hermülheim, Germany)[1] is a former Formula One driver, and seven-time world champion. ... Fernando Alonso Díaz (born on July 29, 1981 in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain) is a Spanish Formula One racing driver and reigning, two-time, world champion. ...

Quotes

• "David Beckham is curing his broken foot by sleeping in an oxygen tent. Great, that's just what he needs. More air in his head."^{[citation needed]}

• "A statement from Chelsea football club has about as much worth as a Rover warranty."^{[citation needed]}

• "Our footballers are leading the kind of lavish casino-and-Ferrari littered existence that would make The Great Gatsby look like the Barely- Adequate Gatsby if he rolled up the gravel drive today."^{[citation needed]}

• "There are a number of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. Richard Nixon, Jeffrey Archer, Piers Morgan, to name but a few."^{[citation needed]}

• "Zara Phillips looks like the kind of girl who drinks pints."^{[citation needed]}

• "The title of the book is My Defence, but if one thing is rendered patently clear throughout every single snivelling word of this extraordinarily ill-advised work, it is that Ashley Cole doesn't have one. There is no defence for his vanity, no defence for his wage demands, no defence for his apparent deceit in the Chelsea transfer sham, no defence for the attacks on the Arsenal board and no defence whatsoever for his bizarre complaints about a lack of support from Gunners fans."^{[citation needed]}

• "England must stop playing Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard together. They are talented in their own right, but put Steve and Frank together and it makes Stank. And they do."^{[citation needed]}

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References

1. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6298567.stm

External links

1. Independent interview ^ http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article332625.ece
2. Daily Mail column archive ^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/columnists/archive.html?in_page_id=1951&in_author_id=344&in_article_id=434119