{"id":23924,"date":"2025-02-26T13:47:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/tv-presenter-and-journalist-henry-kelly-dies\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:47:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:47:57","slug":"tv-presenter-and-journalist-henry-kelly-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/tv-presenter-and-journalist-henry-kelly-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"TV presenter and journalist Henry Kelly dies"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Henry Kelly started out as a journalist but later became a light entertainment presenter<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Journalist and TV presenter Henry Kelly has died aged 78, his family has announced.<\/b><\/p>\n

Kelly was a journalist who later pivoted to light entertainment, hosting TV gameshow Game For A Laugh and Going For Gold in the 1980s and 90s.<\/p>\n

He also presented programmes on BBC Radio 4, LBC and Classic FM.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Kelly’s family said he “died peacefully” on Tuesday “after a period of ill health”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“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.”<\/p>\n

Born in Dublin on April 17 1946, Kelly started his journalistic career in newspapers.<\/p>\n

He worked for The Irish Times in the 1970s during civil unrest and The Troubles in Northern Ireland. <\/p>\n

He left the newspaper and joined the BBC in 1976, working as a reporter and presenter for Radio 4’s The World Tonight.<\/p>\n

But in 1980, aged 34, he left journalism to become a light entertainment presenter. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He went on to front ITV’s Game for a Laugh, breakfast show TV-AM and the first iteration of Good Morning Britain.<\/p>\n

Kelly also fronted lunchtime quiz show Going For Gold for 10 seasons from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n

The theme tune for Going For Gold was composed by Hans Zimmer, who went on to become a hugely successful film and TV composer.<\/p>\n

Kelly later became one of the launch presenters of Classic FM and also hosted shows on speech station LBC, BBC Radio London and BBC Radio Berkshire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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