Lorraine Kelly

In early October 1984, Kelly joined TV-am as Scotland Correspondent. On the back of her coverage of the Pan Am Flight 103 disaster in Lockerbie, in July 1989, Kelly presented TV-am's Summer Sunday programme with chief reporter Geoff Meade. Throughout the rest of 1989, provide cover for the presenters on the main weekday programme. On 31st January 1990, she became a main presenter of Good Morning Britain alongside Mike Morris.[4]

In January 1993, Kelly helped launch GMTV by presenting a range of programmes. Her first job was presenting the new Top of the Morning. In March, when Fiona Armstrong walked out of the main GMTV show, Kelly moved to the main breakfast show with Eamonn Holmes.[5][6] In June 1994, Kelly went on maternity leave, but shortly afterwards she was sacked from the main presenting roles, she returned in November 1994 to do a mother and baby slot.[7] This led to her becoming the presenter of Nine O'Clock Live. The show proved so popular that it was moved to the earlier 08:35 slot, retitled Lorraine Live.

In Autumn 2000, as GMTV rebranded to GMTV Today, Kelly's show changed its name to LK Today. As part of the later rebrand that took place in 2009, the show again changed its title to GMTV with Lorraine, to coincide with GMTV Today changing back to GMTV. Lorraine moved for the first time into the main GMTV studio, instead of Kelly having her own part of the studio to host from. In April 2010, to make GMTV's programming more consistent, GMTV with Lorraine began airing all year round, instead of breaking during school holidays, with guest presenters.

According to the Sunday Mirror, in 2007, Kelly was prevented from appearing in an advertising campaign for Asda as GMTV managing director Clive Crouch felt that such a move would create more bad publicity for GMTV, which had recently been fined £2 million by broadcasting regulator Ofcom for its misuse of premium-rate phone lines.[8]

In November 2009, ITV plc took full control of the broadcaster after purchasing The Walt Disney Company's 25% share.[9] On 9 July 2010, as well as the announcement that GMTV had been axed to make way for Daybreak, it was also revealed that Kelly's new programme Lorraine would replace GMTV with Lorraine[10] On 15 July 2010, Kelly presented her last show before leaving.

On 6 September 2010, GMTV ended with ITV Breakfast taking over. Lorraine launched with a brand new look, alongside Daybreak.

In 2011, Kelly presented the ITV series Children's Hospital,[11] and was a guest presenter on the BBC Two series Never Mind the Buzzcocks in series 25.[12] She provides voice-over and narration on the CBeebies show Raa Raa the Noisy Lion.[13]

On 4 May 2012, it was confirmed that Kelly would take over from Christine Bleakley as presenter on Lorraine's sister programme Daybreak.[14][15] She debuted on 3 September 2012.[16] She co-hosted the programme with Aled Jones[17] from Monday to Thursday, with Kate Garraway co-hosting on Fridays.

In February 2014, Kelly announced that she would leave Daybreak to focus on Lorraine which she began hosting five days a week from 28 April 2014.[18] Daybreak was replaced by Good Morning Britain in April 2014. Lorraine would occasionally report for GMB whenever her show wasn't aired.

In 2014, Kelly made a cameo appearance in an episode of Birds of a Feather.[19] On 19 September 2014, Kelly reported from Dundee on Good Morning Britain on the Scottish independence result. On 13 April 2016, Kelly guest presented an episode of This Morning with Rylan Clark-Neal.

Kelly presented a four-part series for Channel 5 called Penguin A&E with Lorraine Kelly. The series began airing on 10 May 2016.[20] In 2018, Kelly co-presented Wedding Day Winners with Rob Beckett. The show aired on Saturday nights on BBC One.[21]

Kelly hosted the annual Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards in 2005[22] and 2006 for STV.[23]

Since 2011, Kelly has hosted STV's Children's Appeal annually with Sean Batty, she also hosts STV Appeal Stories on the channel and her 2016 Show Lorraine & Friends.

Kelly hosted the 2014 and 2015 Hogmanay Party which aired on New Year's Eve just before midnight and after Midnight. Hogmanay Party didn't continue in 2016 instead Kelly hosted Lorraine Kelly's Hogmanay.

Lorraine made two appearances of the STV Glasgow talk show The Riverside Show and one appearance on the late-night talk show The Late Show which runs across all STV channels.

During 1994/1995 Kelly also presented Carlton magazine programme After 5. She appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank in 2001.[24]

Kelly presented Liquid News,[25] the spin-off Liquid Eurovision[26][27] and became 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.[28]

She has made several appearances on Have I Got News for You including appearances as guest presenter.[29][30]

From 2004, Kelly co-presented This Morning with Phillip Schofield, on Mondays and Fridays,[31] to allow Fern Britton to spend more time with her family,[32] but she left in March 2006.

Kelly guest hosted an episode of The Friday Night Project on Channel 4.[29] She also guest hosted The New Paul O'Grady Show[29] and returned three other times from 2006 to 2008, owing to sheer popularity.[33]

Kelly also hosted the annual Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards in 2005[22] and 2006 for STV.[23]

In 2006, Kelly filmed an ITV documentary programme Secrets Revealed – DNA Stories, made by STV Productions,[34] and broadcast on Sky Real Lives. A second series was shown on the channel in 2008.[35]

In 2010, Kelly filmed a six-part documentary series Lorraine Kelly's Big Fat Challenge shown on Bio.[36] The series featured Kelly and a team of experts putting 'Britain's fattest family', the Chawner family through their paces to lose weight and transform their lives.[37] Daughter Emma Chawner is best known for her unsuccessful appearances on The X Factor.[37]

In 2010, in conjunction with the Missing People charity,[38] Sky and STV[39] produced a new documentary series hosted by Kelly, about missing mothers.[40] This series followed the success of Sky's previous successful missing person series Missing Children: Lorraine Kelly Investigates.[41]

Kelly has also made acting appearances in the Scottish sitcom Still Game and the soap opera River City.

Kelly writes weekly columns for The Sun[42] and The Sunday Post.[43] She was announced as the first Agony Aunt for the Royal Air Force's fortnightly RAF News on 7 October 2009.[44]

Guest appearances

• Cluedo (1992)
• Surprise Surprise (1993–1995)
• The Mrs. Merton Show (1995)
• Shooting Stars (1997)
• Timmy Towers (1997)
• An Audience with the Spice Girls (1997)
• Harry Hill (1998)
• Late Lunch (1999)
• It's Only TV ... But I Like It (1999)
• Lily Savage's Blankety Blank (2001)
• The Weakest Link: Celebrity Special (2001)
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (2003)
• The Xtra Factor (2006)
• Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong (2008)
• The Marriage Ref (2011)[70]
• Piers Morgan's Life Stories (2013)[71]
• Birds of a Feather (2014)
• Tipping Point: Lucky Stars (2014)[72]
• The Jonathan Ross Show (2014)[73]
• Mel and Sue (2015)[74]
• Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule (2017)
• Murder in Successville (2017)
• Catchphrase: Celebrity Special (2017)