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Revision as of 03:22, 2 January 2012 by 85.210.170.232 (talk) (Undid revision 469046831 by 76.248.147.199 (talk))(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Danny Kelly (born 22 December 1957) is a music journalist, sports presenter and internet publisher. He is the former editor of the music weekly New Musical Express.
Danny Kelly was born in Islington and attended Our Lady of Sacred Heart in Eden Grove and then St Aloysius College, Highgate. Kelly has worked in print and radio journalism for over twenty years. He began writing for New Musical Express in about 1983 and was its editor from the late 1980s to 1992. After that he edited the British music monthly, Q, and was awarded the title British Magazine Editor of the Year for his work there. He also launched the sports monthly Total Sport. He often works in partnership with fellow sports fan and radio journalist Danny Baker, who is also an NME alumnus, having broadcast in both local/national commercial and BBC radio.
In the mid-1990s Kelly hosted Under the Moon, a live late-night television sports chat and entertainment show that often ran for three or more hours. In 1997 he founded the 365 Corporation, best known for the leading UK football website, Football365.
In 2006 he helped launch Videojug, a video up/download service that seeks to demonstrate all human knowledge on film. He also launched The Times' first weekly podcast, The Game. He currently presents an award-winning radio sports show on BBC London and hosted a weekly football podcast with Danny Baker. The football podcast ended in December 2007. He has appeared in two films: Divorcing Jack and The Football Factory.
Kelly spent a period of time commencing December 2007 as stand-in presenter for Hawksbee & Jacobs, Evening Kick-Off and George Galloway on talkSPORT radio. He joined the station to front Euro Kick-Off during Euro 2008 between 19:00-22:00 (BST/GMT) every weekday. Kelly signed a permanent contract with Talksport in early August to front the same slot during the regular football season. Stan Collymore now co-hosts the KicPk-Off show on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and co-commentates whenever Talksport has a live game to broadcast.
Danny Kelly referred to Rafael Benitez as a "Nonce" live on air during a Talk Sport broadcast on 8 January 2011. OFCOM received 130 complaints about the comments. Kelly is a Tottenham Hotspur fan and appears in the June 2010 issue of Hotspurs Magazine as the celebrity fan.
Kelly is currently presenting Channel 4's coverage of American football over the course of the 2011 season, where he replaced Gary Imlach.
Danny is known to support Industry in the Phillipines. All his polo shirts are made there and imported to the UK. Each one of his shirts takes 2,300 man hours to make and he single handedly reduces the unemployment rate of the country by 2%. He set up a foundation to support the country's sweatshop workers as half of them had their homes washed away in flooding.
In desperation, a family of 14 Phillipinos made homeless in the floods, made a shelter with one of Danny's shirts. It has more rooms than their old house.
During a broadcast of American Football on Channel 4, Danny's co-host Mike Carlson was tied down to his chair after Danny's gravitational pull from being so massive started to pull Mike in orbit.
Danny is well known for his love of KFC. He recently consumed a meal for twenty people during a Talksport broadcast. It consisted of 40 pieces of chicken, 20 hot wings. 20 portions of fries, and three gallons of baked beans, coleslaw and gravy. His doctor advised him that he was eating too much KFC and he has now switched to eating nothing but Babybel
During NFL coverage, Danny is known to pull pies out from under his enormous shirts and stuff his face before the next game break. He can sometimes be seen with crumbs on his belly and gravy on his nose.
During the Christmas Day American Football Live presentation, Danny came dressed as a Pig in Blanket. He did not have enough bacon to go around his belly however, so he smeared stuffing over the gap. He also had slices of turkey to cover his nipples and a yorkshire pudding over his genitals. During the broadcast, he ate away at the costume until only the Yorkshire Pudding was left.
In the final show of the 2011 season on Channel 4, Danny hid a suckling pig roasting on a spit under the central table. The smoke coming from the fire caused the building to be evacuated. Danny ensured that he carried the pig out of the building. He had finished eating the pig before the London Fire Brigade let him and Mike back in the building. There were traces of pig juice on his striped green shirt that could be seen during the third and fourth quarters of the game. By overtime, ants were starting to crawl on him.
Danny Kelly's NFL co host Mike Carlson has demanded danger money added on to his salary for fear of being eaten by Kelly during the commercial breaks
Bibliography
- Baker, Danny (October 1, 2009). Classic Football Debates Settled Once and For All: Volume 1. Ebury Press. ISBN 9780091928513.
References
- "Danny Kelly C.V.". Noel Gay. Retrieved on 25 February 2008.
- "Danny Kelly quits 365 Corp". Independent (London), December 26, 2001. Retrieved on 25 February 2008.
- http://www.allmediascotland.com/press_news/28473/media-in-the-press
- Pike, Nick (1 September 2011). "Danny Kelly joins Channel 4". NFL UK. NFL Enterprises LLC. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
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| Preceded byAlan Lewis | Editor of the NME 1988?–1992 |
Succeeded bySteve Sutherland |
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