Lorraine Kelly
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Lorraine Kelly (born 30 November 1959 in Glasgow) is a Scottish television presenter and journalist best known as a presenter for GMTV, the ITV morning television station.
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Early life
Kelly attended John St Secondary School in Bridgeton, Glasgow and Claremont High School in East Kilbride. On leaving school, she first worked for the East Kilbride News, and joined BBC Scotland as a researcher in 1983. She moved to TV-am as an on-screen reporter covering Scottish news in 1984.
Career
In July 1989 she presented TV-am's Summer Sunday programme with chief reporter Geoff Meade, and in February 1990 she became a main presenter of Good Morning Britain alongside Mike Morris.
In April 1991 she was awarded the TRIC Diamond Jubilee Award for New Talent of the Year. She helped launch GMTV in January 1993, and presented a range of programmes, including the main breakfast show with Eamonn Holmes. She was also the national spokeswoman for the United Kingdom during the collation of votes at the Eurovision Song Contest in both 2003 and 2004, replacing the long-serving Colin Berry.
She writes weekly columns for The Sun and The Sunday Post. Kelly is also an avid Dundee United F.C. supporter and has been in attendance at matches. Between 2004 and 2007, she served a period as Rector of the University of Dundee. She currently resides near Dundee with her family when she is not working in London. She also has a home in Berkshire.
She has made several notable appearances on Have I Got News For You? and has presented it once herself. She also claims to have an in-built "bullshit detector". She also made a cameo appearance in the BBC Scotland soap opera, River City.
She currently presents her show LK Today which airs every morning on GMTV. From 2003, she co-presented This Morning with Phillip Schofield, on Mondays and Fridays, to allow Fern Britton to spend more time with her family, but she left in March 2006.
Kelly acted as the guest host for two shows in 2006. Firstly for an episode in the second series of The Friday Night Project for Channel 4 in January and then later, on 25 October for The Paul O'Grady Show. She did so again on for Paul O'Grady on 30 November 2006, her 47th birthday.
Kelly is lined up to be the host of new ITV programme Secrets Revealed - DNA Stories, made by SMG Productions.
Personal life
She is married to Steve Smith, then cameraman when she was covering Scotland for TV-am in 1985. They have a daughter, Rosie, who was born in June 1994. Lorraine returned from maternity leave in late 1994 to present her own show, Nine O'Clock Live, which was later retitled Lorraine Live and then, at the start of 2000, LK Today.
On 5 September 2006, on GMTV, she examined her own family tree.
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| NAME | Kelly, Lorraine |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Television Presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 30 November 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glasgow |
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