Going For Gold presenter Henry Kelly has died aged 78, his family has said.
The Dublin-born writer and broadcaster died “peacefully” on Tuesday “after a period of ill health”, his family said.
“Henry will be sorely missed by his friends and family, including his partner Karolyn Shindler, their son Alexander, Henry’s daughter Siobhan and her mother Marjorie,” they said in a statement.
Kelly began his career in journalism in the 1960s while in Dublin – Radio and TV presenting gigs followed from the 1970s when he moved to England.
While at University College Dublin, he wrote theatre reviews for The Irish Times, graduating with an English degree in 1968.
He went on to become the newspaper’s northern editor, based in Belfast in the 1970s – where he covered the height of The Troubles.
Kelly joined BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme, The World Tonight, as a reporter and presenter when he moved to London in 1976.
He was a presenter on the ITV entertainment show Game for a Laugh from 1981 – and went on to host BBC 1 game show Going for Gold for 10 seasons from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.
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