18 Facts About Richard Keys

Richard Keys was born on 23 April 1957 and is an English sports presenter who has worked for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky, Talksport, Al Jazeera, Fox Sports, ESPN Star Sports and BeIN Sports; he has presented many top-level football matches.

Richard Keys's career started in London in 1976 when he began working for the Fleet Street Sports Agency Hayter's until 1978, when he moved to Liverpool and worked at Radio City as a football commentator.

In 1984 Keys moved back to London, where he joined the ITV network as one of the main anchors of breakfast show TV-am.

Richard Keys was one of the presenters for the Sports Channel on British Satellite Broadcasting in spring 1990.

Richard Keys presented TV-am for the last time on 28 December 1990 before leaving for Sky Sports.

Richard Keys presented Sky Sports coverage of Premier League football since the league's inception in 1992.

Richard Keys was the presenter of the flagship Super Sunday and presented Sky's Monday Night Football, which coincided with Sky gaining rights for the UEFA Champions League.

In 2008, Richard Keys presented the UEFA Euro 2008 for Al Jazeera Sports.

In January 2011, Richard Keys left Sky Sports after making derogatory comments about female assistant referee Sian Massey.

Richard Keys later joined talkSPORT radio, where he presented on Saturday evenings.

Later in 2011, Richard Keys returned to television broadcasting launching the boxing channel BoxNation with boxing promoter Frank Warren.

Since 2013, Richard Keys has maintained a blog on his personal website that is often referenced in sports media.

Richard Keys was educated at the now-defunct Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School, where he was head boy.

Richard Keys married his first wife Julia in 1982 and they had two children together.

In November 2000, Richard Keys was heard to make a racially motivated comment about footballer David Johnson while broadcasting live on a Sky test channel.

In June 2023, Richard Keys married Lucie Rose, a lawyer 32 years his junior.

In 2002, Richard Keys received an honorary doctorate from Coventry University for outstanding services to sports broadcasting.

Richard Keys is a patron of the Willow Foundation, a charity for people with special needs, founded by the former Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson in memory of his late daughter.