TV presenter and journalist Henry Kelly dies
Journalist and TV presenter Henry Kelly has died aged 78, his family has announced.Kelly was a journalist who later pivoted to light entertainment, hosting TV gameshow Game For A Laugh in the 1980s. He also presented programmes on BBC Radio 4, LBC and Classic FM.In a statement, Kelly's family said he "died peacefully" on Tuesday "after a period of ill health".
"Henry will be sorely missed by his friends and family," it continued, "including his partner Karolyn Shindler, their son Alexander, Henry's daughter Siobhan and her mother Marjorie."Kelly started his journalistic career in newspapers, working for The Irish Times in the 1970s during the start of civil unrest and The Troubles in Northern Ireland. He left the newspaper and joined the BBC in 1976, working for Radio 4's The World Tonight.But in 1980, aged 34, he left journalism to become a light entertainment presenter. He went on to front Game for a Laugh, lunchtime quiz show Going For Gold, breakfast show TV-AM and the first iteration of Good Morning Britain.Kelly later became one of the launch presenters of Classic FM and also hosted shows on speech station LBC and BBC Radio London.
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