Dougie Donnelly
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Douglas "Dougie" Donnelly (born June 7, 1953 in Glasgow) is a British television broadcaster best known for presenting sports coverage for BBC Scotland.
Donnelly started his career with Radio Clyde in Glasgow in the 1970s, where he was twice voted Scottish Radio Personality of the Year. He joined BBC Scotland's Sports Department in the late 1970s, where he has been their anchorman ever since, presenting programmes such as Sportscene Live (which includes events such as the Scottish Cup Final and Scotland internationals), Afternoon Sportscene, and the network's rugby union coverage.
Donnelly is known outside Scotland by his involvement in the BBC's networked output of golf (a sport for which he has a strong passion), darts, snooker and bowls. International exposure also saw Donnelly serve as commentator/presenter for the World's Strongest Man during the 1980s on BBC television. He has also covered the Commonwealth Games, and Summer and Winter Olympic Games, where, in the 2002 event at Salt Lake City, he commentated on the British Women Curlers' Gold victory.
As well as sport, Donnelly has also hosted quiz shows and has appeared on Ready Steady Cook, Banzai and The Games. In addition, he provides a voice over on the Sky One science entertainment show Brainiac: Science Abuse; solely for the "Brianiac Golf" sketch when a caravan is blown up; detonated by a fuse triggered by a professional golfer's putting stroke.
Donnelly is a graduate of the University of Strathclyde Law School.[citation needed] He is a fan of Scottish First Division club Clyde F.C..
He has also been involved in TV advertising. He featured in an advert for Inverurie based car dealer I&K Motors (eventually being replaced by former snooker World Champion Dennis Taylor) but is more remembered for his appearances in the adverts for the furniture store Sterling, based in Tillicoultry, near Stirling.
