Des Kelly

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Des Kelly (born 1965) is a British journalist.

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]

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.

1 Biography
2 Personal life
3 References
4 External links

[edit] 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.

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 SJA Sports Columnist of the Year award, Kelly has been UKPG nominated as Sports Writer of the Year [3] and highly commended twice By the Sports Journalists' Association more since 1999 for his articles.

Kelly is a regular guest on GMTV, BBC Radio Five Live shows Sportsweek and Fighting Talk and the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. 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 show. 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.

At Hill and Knowlton he has been Master of Ceremonies at various corporate nights alongside supermodels Jerry Hall and Petra Nemcova, football manager Arsene Wenger, the BBC Match Of The Day team, Cilla Black and chef Antony Worrall Thompson.

Kelly is a judge for the Football League Awards and is on the judging panel for the Laureus World Sports Awards.

He has completed two London Marathons, the Network Q Rally of Great Britain twice, the Arctic Rally, the Belgium Bianchi Rally and others. He took part in the world's first two-seater F1 race with Fernando Alonso at Donnington Park. He completed in the 2007 Isle of Wight Round The Island race on board an Extreme 40 sailing boat.

[edit] Personal life

His partner was TV presenter Carol Vorderman. After meeting at a Christmas party in 1999, they lived together in London from 2001. They separated in December 2006, ^[1]. They are said to be back together in Bristol, according to reports. ^[2] ^[3]