Journalist and TV presenter Henry Kelly has died aged 78, his household has introduced.
Kelly was a journalist who later pivoted to mild leisure, internet hosting TV gameshow Recreation For A Giggle and Going For Gold within the Nineteen Eighties and 90s.
He additionally offered programmes on BBC Radio 4, LBC and Traditional FM.
In a press release, Kelly’s household mentioned he “died peacefully” on Tuesday “after a interval of sick well being”.
“Henry will likely be sorely missed by his family and friends,” it continued, “together with his associate Karolyn Shindler, their son Alexander, Henry’s daughter Siobhan and her mom Marjorie.”
Born in Dublin on April 17 1946, Kelly began his journalistic profession in newspapers.
He labored for The Irish Instances within the Nineteen Seventies throughout civil unrest and The Troubles in Northern Eire.
He left the newspaper and joined the BBC in 1976, working as a reporter and presenter for Radio 4’s The World Tonight.
However in 1980, aged 34, he left journalism to turn out to be a lightweight leisure presenter.
He went on to entrance ITV’s Recreation for a Giggle, breakfast present TV-AM and the primary iteration of Good Morning Britain.
Kelly additionally fronted lunchtime quiz present Going For Gold for 10 seasons from the late Nineteen Eighties to the mid-Nineties.
Kelly later turned one of many launch presenters of Traditional FM and likewise hosted exhibits on speech station LBC and BBC Radio London.
