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'''Desmond Kelly''' (born 19 February 1965) is a British journalist and broadcaster.
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Kelly was a long-standing presenter on [[talkSPORT]], the 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. It was twice nominated as SJA Sports Radio Programme of the Year in 2011 and 2012.
==Journalism==
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In 2012 Kelly was named among the top 10 most influential sportswriters in Britain by the trade publication, UK Press Gazette.<ref name = "UKPG Names Top Sports Journalists">In 2012 Samuel was named top in a UK Press Gazette poll of Britain's best sports journalists.</ref>
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Kelly was part of the [[BBC1]]'s ''[[Inside Sport (TV series)|Inside Sport]]'' presenting team, which was hosted by [[Gabby Logan]] between 2007 and 2009. His contributions included interviews with [[Michael Schumacher]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/inside_sport/7694331.stm|title=Inside Sport: Michael Schumacher|work=BBC Sport|date=28 October 2008}}</ref> [[Arsène Wenger]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/inside_sport/7325569.stm|title=Inside Sport: Arsene Wenger interview|work=BBC Sport|date=April 2008}}</ref> [[Petr Čech]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/inside_sport/7412813.stm|title=Inside Sport: Petr Cech|work=BBC Sport|date=21 May 2008}}</ref> and a piece on GB Blind Football.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/inside_sport/7404705.stm|title=Inside Sport: Des Kelly tries blind football|work=BBC Sport|date=16 May 2008}}</ref>
==Outside journalism==
Kelly is patron of the Great Britain Blind Football team and opened the new [[Royal National College for the Blind]] Paralympic Centre in [[Hereford]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.herefordtimes.com/sport/4474740.State_of_the_art_facility_makes_an_impressive_bow/|title=State-of-the-art facility makes an impressive bow|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.herefordtimes.com/sport/other/4456480.BBC_personality_Des_Kelly_launches_thePoint4/|title=BBC personality Des Kelly launches thePoint4|publisher=}}</ref> He
Kelly has also been an Executive Consultant for the PR agency [[Hill & Knowlton]] and director of the internet company [[Fast Web Media]]. At Hill and Knowlton he was Master of Ceremonies at various corporate nights involving supermodels [[Jerry Hall]] and [[Petra Nemcova]]
He has completed two [[London Marathon]]s, the Network Q [[Rally of Great Britain]] twice,<ref>[http://www.rallybase.nl/index.php?type=result&rallyid=68 RallyBase<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.djames.org.uk/2000/GB/entry.html|title=Network Q Rally of Great Britain 2000 Entry List|publisher=}}</ref> the Arctic Rally three times, the [[Belgium]] Bianchi Rally and others. He took part in the world's first two-seater F1 race with [[Fernando Alonso]] at [[Donington Park]]. He completed in the 2007 Isle of Wight Round The Island race on board an [[Extreme 40]] sailing boat, made a solo parachute jump for MENCAP, has run with the bulls in Pamplona and climbed Kilimanjaro as part of a Football League team raising funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care in the summer of 2011.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}
==Personal==
Kelly lives in [[Bristol]]. Born in London of an Irish family, he was educated at [[Wimbledon College]] and has a University of Surrey BA (Hons) in English and History from [[Froebel College]] in [[Roehampton]], London.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=5484&inst_id=50&nv1=search&nv2=|title=AIM25 collection description|publisher=}}</ref>
He is married to dress designer Paulina. Their engagement was announced in The Times on 26 December 2014. They married on
==References==
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