TV presenter and journalist Henry Kelly dies

Journalist and TV presenter Henry Kelly has died elderly 78, his circle of relatives has introduced.

Kelly used to be a journalist who later pivoted to gentle leisure, web hosting TV gameshow Sport For A Snort and Going For Gold within the Eighties and 90s.

He additionally introduced programmes on BBC Radio 4, LBC and Vintage FM.

In a observation, Kelly’s circle of relatives mentioned he “died peacefully” on Tuesday “after a length of unwell well being”.

“Henry can be sorely neglected via his family and friends,” it persisted, “together with his spouse Karolyn Shindler, their son Alexander, Henry’s daughter Siobhan and her mom Marjorie”.

Born in Dublin on 17 April 1946, Kelly began his journalistic occupation in newspapers.

He labored for The Irish Occasions within the Nineteen Seventies right through civil unrest and the Troubles in Northern Eire.

He left the newspaper and moved to London to sign up for the BBC in 1976, running as a reporter and presenter for Radio 4’s The International This night.

However in 1980, elderly 34, he left journalism to develop into a mild leisure presenter.

He went directly to entrance ITV’s Sport For A Snort, and the primary iteration of Excellent Morning Britain on TV-am, along Toni Arthur.

Sport For A Snort in large part concerned sensible jokes and elaborate set-ups, continuously on participants of the studio target audience or filmed on location on unsuspecting participants of the general public.

Kelly additionally fronted lunchtime quiz display Going For Gold for 10 seasons from the overdue Eighties to the mid-Nineteen Nineties.

The theme track for Going For Gold used to be composed via Hans Zimmer, who went directly to develop into a massively a hit movie and TV composer.

The display noticed contestants from other Eu nations compete towards every different to reply to inquiries to win prizes.

Going For Gold used to be in short revived within the overdue 2000s via Channel 5, introduced via John Suchet.

Kelly later turned into one of the crucial release presenters of Vintage FM and in addition hosted displays on speech station LBC, BBC Radio London.

He hosted a display on BBC Radio Berkshire for 10 years from 2005.

Talking to Problem TV about his reminiscences of Going for Gold, Kelly – who virtually neglected the web hosting audition as he used to be making plans to play golfing – famous how “the entire level” of the display “used to be that it used to be Pan-Eu”.

“We have been the one other people on this nation on the time, and almost definitely since, who have been truly Eu, and so we had contestants from in all places Europe,” he mentioned.

Recalling one instance of comedic go cultural confusion on episode one of the crucial new display, he added: “The query for the entire contestants used to be, what’s the title of the piece of least price on a chessboard?

“Bang, is going [Swedish contestant] Ida-Britt, and checked out me and mentioned: ‘the farmer’.

“‘Proper, I feel no longer’ [he replied]. However we checked, best to find that during Sweden, a pawn is within the form of a bit of Swedish farmer. So she used to be proper!”

Kelly additionally gave the impression in Victoria Wooden’s comedy display Dinnerladies, and hosted journalistic communicate display After Darkish.

In 1994 he used to be voted nationwide broadcaster of the 12 months within the Sony Radio Awards.

Further reporting via Paul Glynn.