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Lorraine Kelly (born 30 November 1959) is a Scottish television presenter. She has presented various television shows for ITV and STV, including Good Morning Britain (1988–1992), GMTV (1993–2010), This Morning (2003–2005, 2016), Daybreak (2012–2014), The Sun Military Awards (2016–present), STV Children's Appeal (2016–present), and her eponymous programme Lorraine (2010–present).
Between 2004 and 2007, Kelly was Rector of the University of Dundee. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to charity and was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting, journalism and charity.
Throughout the rest of 1989, Kelly provided cover for the presenters on the main weekday programme. On 31 January 1990, she became a main presenter of Good Morning Britain alongside Mike Morris.
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.
Kelly also had a stint in radio, with her own daily programme broadcast on air by then new British phenomenon of Talk Radio (precursor of Talksport) around 1997–99. 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 GMTVs 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. 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. On 15 July 2010, Kelly presented her last show before leaving.
On 4 May 2012, it was confirmed that Kelly would take over from Christine Bleakley as presenter on Lorraine's sister programme Daybreak. She debuted on 3 September 2012. She co-hosted the programme with Aled Jones 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. Daybreak was replaced by Good Morning Britain in April 2014. Lorraine would occasionally report for GMB whenever her show wasn't aired. In 2024, Kelly faced significant criticism on social media for her frequent absences on Lorraine and the show's perceived overreliance on relief presenters Christine Lampard and Ranvir Singh. An account on X, tracking her attendance of her own show, has gained more than 10,000 followers. In 2014, Kelly made a cameo appearance in an episode of Birds of a Feather. 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.[1] In 2018, Kelly co-presented Wedding Day Winners with Rob Beckett. The show aired on Saturday nights on BBC One. In May 2019, she made a cameo in Coronation Street. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she hosted her programme in the Good Morning Britain studio. "Good Morning Britain with Lorraine" had a more news-focused style to it, yet still featured interviews with celebrities, Hollywood updates from Ross King, and medical advice on the pandemic with Dr Hilary Jones. She returned to the Lorraine studio on 13 July.
Since 2011, Kelly has hosted STV Appeal annually with Sean Batty, she also hosts STV Appeal on the channel and her 2016 Show STV Appeal. Kelly hosted the Lorraine Kelly's Hogmanay in 2016, welcoming viewers into the New Year from HM Frigate Unicorn in Dundee in a pre-recorded show. In 2019, she presented the gameshow The Cash Machine. Lorraine made two appearances of the STV Glasgow talk show STV Glasgow and one appearance on the late-night talk show The Late Show with Ewen Cameron which runs across all STV channels.
She was parodied by Dawn French in the TV sitcom Absolutely Fabulous as a stereotypical daytime TV news reporter for series 1 in 1992; this role was reprised for the film in 2016. She has made several appearances on Have I Got News for You including as guest presenter. Joan Collins to present news quiz BBC News, 22 November 2005 From 2004, Kelly co-presented This Morning with Phillip Schofield, on Mondays and Fridays, Lorraine Kelly to host 'This Morning' Digital Spy, 1 July 2004 to allow Fern Britton to spend more time with her family, Holly Willoughby says Phillip Schofield is a 'TV slut' STV, 18 January 2010 but she left in March 2006.
Kelly guest hosted an episode of The Friday Night Project on Channel 4. Lorraine: The hurt behind my smiles Irish Independent, 23 August 2008 She also guest hosted The New Paul O'Grady Show and returned three other times from 2006 to 2008, owing to sheer popularity. Full cast and crew for "The New Paul O'Grady Show" Internet Movie Database Kelly also hosted the annual Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards in 2005 and 2006 for STV. In 2006, Kelly filmed an ITV documentary programme Secrets Revealed – DNA Stories, made by STV Productions, Lorraine Kelly to front DNA show for ITV Broadcast, 1 November 2005 and broadcast on Sky Real Lives. A second series was shown on the channel in 2008. Lorraine Kelly series to launch Real Lives HD Digital Spy, 18 August 2008
In 2010, Kelly filmed a six-part documentary series Lorraine Kelly's Big Fat Challenge shown on Bio. Lorraine Kelly's Big Fat Challenge Sky TV, January 2010 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. Lorraine Kelly's Big Fat Challenge on Bio Biography Channel, January 2010 Daughter Emma Chawner is best known for her unsuccessful appearances on The X Factor. Also in 2010, in conjunction with the Missing People charity, "Lorraine Kelly Seeks Families of Missing Mums" , Missing People, 21 December 2009 BSkyB and STV "Lorraine Kelly and STV search for missing mums" , STV, 20 July 2010 produced a new documentary series hosted by Kelly, about missing mothers. Missing Children Sky One Online This series followed the success of Sky's previous successful missing person series Missing Children: Lorraine Kelly Investigates. "Lorraine Kelly's 'Families of Missing Mums'" , Sky Real Lives
Kelly has also made acting appearances in the Scottish sitcom Still Game and the soap opera River City. In 2021, Kelly interviewed Gurdeep Pandher. In 2024, Kelly appeared on the fifth series of The Masked Singer. She was unmasked as "Owl" in the fifth episode, and later appeared a guest panellist in the seventh episode.
Kelly is also a patron of the Human Rights advocacy, information and advice charity POhWER. About being a patron, Kelly commented: 'I am proud to be a Patron of POhWER, a charity which helps people to find their voice, make their case, get the care and support they need and see wrongs put right'. Kelly is also a patron of the British charity Help for Heroes. Kelly is an Honorary Patron of The Courtyard, Herefordshire's Centre for the Arts.
In 2011, Kelly was among the celebrities to take part in the BT Red Nose Desert Trek which took place in the Kaisut Desert for Comic Relief and raised £1,375,037. She has been an ambassador and presenter for STV Children's Appeal since its creation in 2011. Kelly also became an ambassador for the charity Sightsavers in 2011. Sightsavers News; summer 2011, pp. 4–5
Kelly was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to charity and the armed forces and was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting, journalism and charity.
On 16 November 2014, Kelly received a special Scottish BAFTA award honouring her 30-year television career. In 2024, Kelly received a special BAFTA award.
Kelly has been described by Attitude as "one of Britain's cult following ". In 2015, she was given the " Gay Award" at the 2015 Attitude Awards for her support for the LGBT community.
Since June 2009, she has been an Honorary Colonel in the Black Watch Army Cadet Force. Since November 2019, she has been National Honorary Colonel of the Army Cadet Force.
Kelly has one daughter, born in 1994, The Alan Titchmarsh Show, 19 January 2012 who teamed up with her mother on The Cube in December 2021, playing for MS Therapy Centre.
Kelly is an outspoken critic of Catholic schools in Scotland and has called for an end to them saying they were a cause of trouble in society and prolonged the "scandal of sectarianism".
Kelly has been a fan of the Scottish football team Dundee United since 1987, after being taken to a game by her now-husband. She was made an honorary patron of the club in 2018.
In 2018, Kelly spoke of her experiences with the menopause and encouraged other women to speak about it.
On 3 May 2025, Kelly revealed that she had undergone a salpingectomy and a bilateral oophorectomy as a preventative measure.
Writing
Kelly writes weekly columns for The Sun and The Sunday Post. Lorraine Kelly Sunday Post Online She was announced as the first Agony Aunt for the Royal Air Force's fortnightly RAF News on 7 October 2009. New Agony Aunt , RAF News, 7 October 2009
Charity work
Kelly is a celebrity patron of Worldwide Cancer Research. Lorraine supreme – Lorraine Kelly The Scotsman, 19 August 2008
Awards and honours
In April 1991, Kelly was awarded the TRIC Diamond Jubilee Award for New Talent of the Year. In 2004, she was elected as the first female rector of the University of Dundee, being formally installed to office on 28 April 2004. She held this position until 2007. Lorraine Kelly interview: Everyone's cup of tea The Scotsman, 25 February 2009 On 20 June 2008, she was awarded an honorary degree Doctor of Laws from the university for her services to charity. University honour for TV host Kelly This is Gloucestershire, 20 June 2008 On 28 June 2018, she was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Arts from Edinburgh Napier University.
Commonwealth honours
OBE CBE
Scholastic
Rector
Honorary degrees
Honorary military appointments
Honorary Colonel National Honorary Colonel
Personal life
Between 1993 and 2005, Kelly lived in Cookham Dean, Berkshire, on the Thames west of London, with her husband, Stephen "Steve" Smith, a television cameraman, whom she married on 5 September 1992, at Mains Castle in Dundee. Between 2005 and 2010, she lived in Coupar Angus, Perthshire. Kelly previously lived in Broughty Ferry, Dundee and stayed in her flat in Westminster during the week, until she moved in December 2017. Kelly and her husband then decided to sell their Broughty Ferry home and moved to Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, to be closer to Lorraine's work and so they could spend more time together. Kelly has described herself as an 'adopted Dundonian' and despite moving away, she considers Dundee to be a place that she will always call home.
Filmography
Television
ITV GMTV (GMTV with Lorraine) ITV Herself BBC One Narrator Team Captain Herself Channel 4 Herself ITV BBC One Presenter ITV BBC One BBC Scotland BBC Two ITV Food Presenter ITV Children's Hospital Lorraine CBeebies STV ITV Hogmanay Party STV Occasional reporter ITV Penguin A&E with Lorraine Kelly Channel 5 STV Lorraine Kelly's Hogmanay The Sun Military Awards Forces TV 2017 Carnage Herself (cameo role) BBC iPlayer 2018 Wedding Day Winners Co-presenter BBC One 2019 Coronation Street Herself/Presenter ITV STV RuPaul's Drag Race UK Special guest
Series 1, Episode 4: "Snatch Game"BBC Three 2020 Good Morning Britain with Lorraine Presenter ITV The Last Leg Stand-in Presenter Channel 4 2021 RuPaul's Drag Race UK Guest Judge
Series 2, Episode 4: "Morning Glory"BBC Three Return To Dunblane With Lorraine Kelly Herself/Presenter ITV 2022 Queens for the Night Host 2023 Return To Lockerbie With Lorraine Kelly Herself/Presenter 2024 The Masked Singer Contestant ("Owl")
Guest panellist2026 Lorraine Kelly's Norwegian Odyssey Presenter Channel 4
Film
Cat (voice) Narrator (voice)
Bibliography
External links
Categories: 1959 Births, British Women Television Journalists, Scottish Lgbtq Rights Activists, Living People, Commanders Of The Order Of The British Empire, People Associated With Dundee, People Educated At Claremont High School, People From East Kilbride, People From Gorbals, Rectors Of The University Of Dundee, Scottish Columnists, Scottish People Of Irish Descent, Scottish Television Journalists, Scottish Women Television Presenters, Scottish Women Columnists
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