10 Facts About Barbara Kelly

Barbara Kelly was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1923.

Barbara Kelly's father, an Irishman, was a lorry driver in Vancouver.

Barbara Kelly made her television debut at this time, appearing in The Stage Show.

Barbara Kelly made regular appearances on her husband's show, Bedtime with Braden, in 1950.

Barbara Kelly continued to star in her husband's shows throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and in 1968 appeared in the sitcom B-And-B, along with her husband and daughter.

Barbara Kelly was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1978 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Tower Hotel, London.

However, although Braden himself was publicly circumspect about the decision, Barbara Kelly was forthright in condemning it and was plainly hostile towards Rantzen.

At the turn of the 21st century, Barbara Kelly weighed into a spat in the press between Rantzen and her stepdaughter Cassandra Wilcox, as a result of which she received a large number of supportive letters from members of the public, who recalled her husband's usurpation by Rantzen.

Barbara Kelly placed these in a folder marked "Hate Rancid File".

Braden died in 1993, and Barbara Kelly died from cancer in 2007, aged 83, at a hospice in Hampstead, London.