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Henry Kelly Dies

Henry Kelly

Journalist and TV presenter Henry Kelly has died aged 78, his family has announced. 

Kelly was a journalist who later pivoted to light entertainment, hosting TV gameshow Game For A Laugh and Going For Gold in the 1980s and 90s. 

He also presented programmes on BBC Radio 4, LBC and Classic FM. 

In a statement, Kelly's family said he "died peacefully" on Tuesday "after a period of ill health". 

"Henry will be sorely missed by his friends and family," it continued, "including his partner Karolyn Shindler, their son Alexander, Henry's daughter Siobhan and her mother Marjorie". 

Born in Dublin on 17 April 1946, Kelly started his journalistic career in newspapers. 

He worked for The Irish Times in the 1970s during civil unrest and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. 

He left the newspaper and moved to London to join the BBC in 1976, working as a reporter and presenter for Radio 4's The World Tonight. 

But in 1980, aged 34, he left journalism to become a light entertainment presenter. 

He went on to front ITV's Game For A Laugh, breakfast show TV-AM and the first iteration of Good Morning Britain. 

Game For A Laugh largely involved practical jokes and elaborate set-ups, often on members of the studio audience or filmed on location on unsuspecting members of the public. 

Kelly also fronted lunchtime quiz show Going For Gold for 10 seasons from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.

26 February 2025                                          

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