26 Facts About Des Kelly

Desmond Kelly was born on 19 February 1965 and is a British journalist and broadcaster.

Des Kelly is part of the live broadcast team mainly for the channel's Champions League and Premier League coverage.

Des Kelly has been nominated as SJA Broadcast Journalist of the Year for 2015,2016,2017,2018,2019 and 2021 - and highly commended in 2017 and 2018.

Des Kelly was executive producer of the programme, which originally launched on 5 August 2013 and was nominated for SJA Television Show of the Year in 2013.

Des Kelly simultaneously presented SportsHUB, BT Sport's sports news programme, from Monday to Thursday, until the show closed in 2015.

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Des Kelly was a long-standing presenter on talkSPORT, the commercial national radio station which broadcasts from London across the United Kingdom.

Des Kelly is the former host of The Press Pass, a show introduced on the first weekend of the Premier League season in August 2011.

Des Kelly quit in August 2014 to concentrate on his BT commitments, but is still an occasional contributor.

Winner of the SJA Sports Columnist of the Year award, Des Kelly was nominated as UK Press Gazette Sports Writer of the Year and commended on four separate occasions by the Sports Journalists' Association for his articles.

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

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

Previously, Des Kelly was the Acting Editor and Deputy Editor of the Daily Mirror.

Des 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.

Des Kelly was 'forced out' of the Mirror later in 2004 when Richard Wallace was handed the position.

Des 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.

Des Kelly was previously a columnist for The Sunday Times and had a column in the London Evening Standard.

Des Kelly has has written for GQ, German newspaper Bild and L'Equipe in France.

Des Kelly was part of the BBC1's Inside Sport presenting team, which was hosted by Gabby Logan between 2007 and 2009.

Des Kelly's contributions included interviews with Michael Schumacher, Arsene Wenger, Petr Cech and a piece on GB Blind Football.

Des Kelly 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.

Des Kelly has been a contributor to a number of programmes, including BBC's The Noughties.

Des Kelly is patron of the Great Britain Blind Football team and opened the new Royal National College for the Blind Paralympic Centre in Hereford.

Des Kelly was a member of the Jaguar Sports Academy and on the judging panel for the Laureus World Sports Awards.

Des Kelly has completed two London Marathons, the Network Q Rally of Great Britain twice, the Arctic Rally three times, the Belgium Bianchi Rally and others.

Des Kelly took part in the world's first two-seater F1 race with Fernando Alonso at Donington Park.

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Des Kelly completed in the 2007 Isle of Wight Round The Island race on board an Extreme 40 sailing boat, made a solo 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.