Des Kelly
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For the well known Ceylonese musician see Desmond KellyDes Kelly (born 1965) is a
British journalist.
A former 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 now a newspaper columnist for
The Daily Mail, an Executive Consultant for the PR agency
Hill & Knowlton [
2] and director of the internet company Fast Web Media.
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 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 former a winner of the Sports Columnist of the Year award, Kelly has been nominated as Sports Writer of the Year and highly commended twice more since
1999 for his articles.
Kelly is a regular contributor to
BBC Radio Five Live. He has also made television appearances on the BBC's
Match Of The Day 2,
Channel 4's
Clive Anderson's Sports Talk Show and
Ant and Dec's
Family Fortunes on
ITV. He has previously been a columnist for The
Sunday Times, written for
GQ and appeared in the
German newspaper
Bild.
His partner is TV presenter
Carol Vorderman. They have houses in central London and
West Cork,
Republic of Ireland.
