Des Kelly

Desmond "Des" Kelly (born 1965) is a British journalist and broadcaster.

He presents a live, late-night sport/entertainment show on BT Sport called Follow the Football with Des Kelly. Kelly is also executive producer of the programme, which originally launched as Life's a Pitch on 5 August 2013. Kelly also presents SportsHUB, BT Sport's sports news programme, from Monday to Thursday.

Kelly is a presenter on talkSPORT commercial national radio station, which broadcasts from London across the United Kingdom. He is the former host of The Press Pass, a show introduced on the first weekend of the Premier League season in August 2011. He quit in August 2014 to concentrate on his BT commitments, but is still an occasional co-presenter on Jim White's mid-morning show from 10 am to 1 pm.

He has a column in the London Evening Standard every Monday.

A past winner of the SJA Sports Columnist of the Year award, 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 Kelly was named among the top 10 most influential sportswriters in Britain by the trade publication, UK Press Gazette.

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

A contributor to Sky News and BBC Breakfast, he is also a regular member of the BBC Radio Five Live Fighting Talk panel show and has appeared on Sportsweek and the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.

Previously, Kelly was the Acting Editor and Deputy Editor of the Daily Mirror. 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. Kelly was also 'forced out' of the Mirror later in 2004 when Richard Wallace was handed the position.

He 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. He was previously a columnist for The Sunday Times, has written for GQ, appeared in the German newspaper Bild and also L'Équipe in France.

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