Lorraine Kelly Biography

Lorraine Kelly OBE, is a Scottish presenter and journalist. Kelly has presented on TV-am, GMTV, ITV Breakfast, Daybreak and on her eponymous Lorraine. She was a main female presenter of ITV’s Daybreak, which she co-hosted from Monday to Thursdays with Aled Jones. Since 2011, she has hosted the annual STV Children’s Appeal. She also hosts the telethon and sister series such as STV Appeal Stories and Lorraine & Friends.

Lorraine Kelly Age

Lorraine Kelly was born in Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland on 30th November 1959. She is 59 years as of 2018.

Lorraine Kelly Family

Kelly was born in the Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland. She is of Irish ancestry. Her father, John, worked as a television repairman. She was born to a Catholic mother and a Protestant father. She 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”.

She spent the first few years of her life in Glasgow before the family moved to East Kilbride where she attended Claremont High School. She turned down a university place to study English and Russian in favor of a job on the East Kilbride News, her local newspaper. Later she then joined BBC Scotland as a researcher in 1983. She moved to TV-am as an on-screen reporter covering Scottish news in 1984.

Lorraine Kelly Husband

Kelly is a married woman, she lives in Berkshire, outside London, with her husband, television cameraman Steve Smith. They got married in 1992. Previously, she lived in Broughty Ferry, Dundee until December 2017 as she found commuting back and forth was not working, she and her husband then decided to sell their Broughty Ferry home to be closer to Lorraine’s work, and so they could spend more time together.

Additionally, she has described herself as an ‘adopted Dundonian’ and despite moving away, she considers Dundee to be a place that she will always call home. She has been a fan of the Scottish football team Dundee United since 1987 after being taken to a game by her now-husband.

In 2019, she won a tax case over £1.2m, with the judge deeming that Kelly is a “self-employed star”, rather than an employee of ITV.

Lorraine Kelly Net Worth|Lorraine Kelly Salary

Earlier this year, Lorraine made headlines, after a judge ruled that she is a “self-employed star”, rather than an employee of ITV. In her journalism career, she has amassed a huge fortune over the years. She has an estimated net worth of $6 million. Any advances on it will be updated.

Lorraine Kelly Career

1984–1993: TV-am

In early October 1984, Kelly joined TV-am as Scotland Correspondent. On the back of her coverage of the Pan Am Flight 103disaster in Lockerbie, in July 1989, Kelly presented TV-am’s Summer Sunday program with chief reporter Geoff Meade. In February 1990, she became the main presenter of Good Morning Britain alongside Mike Morris.

1993–2010: GMTV

In January 1993, Kelly helped launch GMTV by presenting a range of programs. 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. In June 1994, Kelly went on maternity leave, but shortly afterward she was sacked from the main presenting roles, Lorraine returned in November 1994 to do a mum and baby slot. 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 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.

In November 2009, ITV plc took full control of the broadcaster after purchasing The Walt Disney Company’s 25% share. 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 program Lorraine would replace GMTV with Lorraine On 15 July 2010, Kelly presented her last show before leaving.

2010–present: Lorraine, Daybreak and other projects

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, and was a guest presenter on the BBC Two series Never Mind the Buzzcocks in series 25. She provides voice-over and narration on the CBeebies show Raa Raa the Noisy Lion.

On 4 May 2012, it was confirmed that Kelly would take over from Christine Bleakley as a presenter on Lorraine’s sister program Daybreak.^[13][14] She debuted on 3 September 2012. She co-hosted the program 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.^[16] Daybreak was replaced by Good Morning Britain in April 2014.

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. In 2018, Kelly co-presented Wedding Day Winners with Rob Beckett. The show aired on Saturday nights on BBC One.

STV

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

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.

Additionally, she hosted the 2014 & 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.

Other television work

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

Kelly presented Liquid News, the spin-off Liquid Eurovision 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.

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

From 2004, Kelly 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 guest hosted an episode of The Friday Night Project on Channel 4. She also guest hosted The New Paul O’Grady Show and returned three other times from 2006 to 2008, owing to sheer popularity.

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 and broadcast on Sky Real Lives. A second series was shown on the channel in 2008.

In 2010, Kelly filmed a six-part documentary series Lorraine Kelly’s Big Fat Challenge shown on Bio. 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. Daughter Emma Chawner is best known for her unsuccessful appearances on The X Factor.

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

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

Writing

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

Lorraine Kelly Charity Works

Kelly is a celebrity patron of Worldwide Cancer Research.

Also a patron of the advocacy charity POhWER (People of Hertfordshire Wants Equal Rights). 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’.

A patron of the British charity Help for Heroes.

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. She also became an ambassador for the charity Sightsavers in 2011.

Lorraine Kelly Awards and honors

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 the office on 28 April 2004. She held this position until 2007. On 20 June 2008, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University for her services to charity. On 28 June 2018, She was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Arts from Edinburgh Napier University.

In a survey, Kelly was voted the celebrity most people would like to buy a car from. She 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.

On 16 November 2014, Kelly received a special Scottish BAFTA award honoring her 30-year television career.

Kelly has been described by Attitude as “one of Britain’s cult gay icons”. In 2015, she was given the “Honorary 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 cadets.

Lorraine Kelly Diet|Lorraine Kelly Weight Loss

Lorraine Kelly, who hosts the self-titled show Lorraine, spends much of her time interviewing celebrities but has become a star in her own right.

Many of her fans take an interest in how she maintains her figure.

Lorraine always gets complimented for her impeccable style on her Instagram page, where she shares her outfit with her 268,000 followers.

And the TV presenter has previously spoken out about how she keeps looking fabulous.

The 59-year-old embarked on a weight loss transformation which saw her loose 2st without going on a strict diet.

During an interview on This Morning, she admitted she does not weigh herself but has been getting fit with Maxine Jones, of Maxicse TV.

Lorraine said: “Over the last couple of years I’ve been going to exercise classes with my friend Maxine just over the road in a wee church hall in Mile End.

“It only costs a fiver. We get hot and sweaty and that actually gives me energy!

“Plus, it clears my head when I’m stressed or feeling overwhelmed.”

She also credited moving more in general as the key to her weight loss.

The TV presenter also released a fitness DVD called Brand New You. She insists people don’t need to cut out the food they enjoy to lose weight.

Lorraine told Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby: “I really look forward to my classes, and with the new DVD we wanted to show what a class was like.

“It’s great going to keep fit but mentally it also makes me feel better.”

Lorraine also said she doesn’t believe diets work, and that it’s “all about portion control”.

She continued: “My husband cooks for me and sometimes I ask ‘how many people are coming round?’ Portion control and not snacking so much are important, as well as being sensible.”

The Lorraine presenter is adamant strict eating plans “do not work”, and dieters should be able to have a treat now and again. Lorraine admitted she has a stash of chocolate bars hidden at come in case she feels like indulging

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