Going For Gold presenter Henry Kelly has died aged 78, his household has mentioned.
The Dublin-born author and broadcaster died “peacefully” on Tuesday “after a period of ill health”.
“Henry will be sorely missed by his friends and family, including his partner Karolyn Shindler, their son Alexander, Henry’s daughter Siobhan and her mother Marjorie,” they added in an announcement.
Kelly started his profession in journalism within the Sixties whereas in Dublin – radio and TV presenting gigs adopted from the Nineteen Seventies when he moved to England.
Whereas at College School Dublin, he wrote theatre evaluations for The Irish Instances, graduating with an English diploma in 1968.
Kelly joined BBC Radio 4 present affairs programme The World Tonight as a reporter and presenter when he moved to London in 1976.
He was a presenter on the ITV leisure present Recreation For A Chuckle from 1981 – and went on to host BBC One sport present Going For Gold for 10 seasons from the late Nineteen Eighties to the mid-Nineties.
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Recreation For A Chuckle’s Nineteen Eighties presenters (L-R) Matthew Kelly, Sarah Kennedy, Henry Kelly and Jeremy Beadle. Pic: ITV/Shutterstock
The unique present noticed folks from completely different international locations competing in opposition to one another for a money prize via answering questions. The present’s theme tune was composed by future multi-award profitable composer Hans Zimmer.
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Kelly (left), with Anneka Rice and Nick Owen at a BAFTA social gathering to have a good time the twentieth anniversary of TV-am in 2003. Pic: PA
Kelly additionally appeared in Victoria Wooden sitcom Dinnerladies, had a stint on morning programme TV-am, and discuss present After Darkish.
He was a founding presenter on Basic FM the place he hosted a day by day breakfast present from 1992 to 2003 – and gained a Sony Radio Award in 1994 when he was voted nationwide broadcaster of the yr.
His later radio profession noticed him have the Henry Kelly Present on LBC for some time, in addition to current on BBC Radio Berkshire from 2005 to 2015.
He additionally wrote books together with the 1972 work How Stormont Fell, in regards to the occasions which hit the Northern Irish parliament, and he co-authored the Nineties assortment Basic FM Musical Anecdotes, Notes And Quotes with John Foley.
