Broadcasting
Kelly was part of the BBC1's Inside Sport presenting team, which was hosted by Gabby Logan between 2007 and 2009. His contributions included interviews with Michael Schumacher, Arsène Wenger, Petr Čech and a piece on GB Blind Football.
Des has made television appearances on the BBC's Match of the Day 2 and remains the only journalist to appear as a pundit on either show. He has also guested on Channel 4's Clive Anderson's Sports Talk Show, Sky Sports' Hold the Back Page show and one of his first assignments was to provide live reports for Sky News from England's 3-0 win over Poland in 1989. He has been a contributor to a number of programmes, including BBC's The Noughties... Was That It? and Britain's Most Annoying People as well as GMTV and others.
On BBC Fighting Talk, Kelly is nicknamed "The Fonz" and "The Fruit Machine". He is known as "The Fruit Machine" in honour of a popular fancy dress anecdote. His "Fighting Talk" theme tunes are Happy Days and a traditional Irish reel.
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