Desmond Kelly (born 19 February 1965) is a British journalist and broadcaster. Kelly is the Chief Reporter and interviewer for British broadcaster, BT Sport. He is part of the live broadcast team mainly for the channel's Champions League and Premier League coverage. He was nominated as SJA Broadcast Journalist of the Year for 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 - and highly commended in 2017 and 2018. Kelly presented 136 editions of Life's A Pitch with Des Kelly, a live, late-night sport/entertainment show on BT Sport. It was rebranded Follow the Football with Des Kelly for the new season in 2014. Kelly was also executive producer of the programme, which originally launched on 5 August 2013 and was nominated for SJA Television Show of the Year in 2013. Kelly simultaneously presented SportsHUB, BT Sport's sports news programme, from Monday to Thursday, until the show closed in 2015. 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. Kelly quit in August 2014 to concentrate on his BT commitments, but is still an occasional contributor. Journalism A winner of the SJA Sports Columnist of the Year award, Kelly was nominated as UK Press Gazette Sports Writer of the Year and commended on four occasions by the Sports Journalists' Association for his articles. In 2012 Kelly was named among the top 10 most influential sportswriters in Britain by the trade publication, UK Press Gazette. Kelly was a sports columnist on the Daily Mail for nearly a decade, having joined the paper in 2004. Previously, Kelly was the Acting Editor and Deputy Editor of the Daily Mirror. Kelly replaced Piers Morgan after he was sacked for publishing faked photos of Iraqi prisoners being "tortured" by British troops and edited the paper in the wake of that controversy. Kelly was also forced out of the Mirror later in 2004 when Richard Wallace was handed the position. A contributor to Sky News and BBC Breakfast, he is also a regular member of the BBC Radio Five Live Fighting Talk panel show and has appeared on Sportsweek and the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.