Des Kelly

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Des 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.

[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 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.

[edit] Personal life

His girlfriend is TV presenter Carol Vorderman. They have houses in central London and West Cork, Republic of Ireland.