Lorraine Kelly (born Glasgow, 30 November 1959) is a British television presenter and journalist best known as a presenter for GMTV, the ITV morning television station.

She attended John St Secondary School in Bridgeton, Glasgow and Claremont High School in East Kilbride. On leaving school, she first worked for the East Kilbride News, and joined BBC Scotland as a researcher in 1983. She moved to TV-am as an on-screen reporter covering Scottish news in 1984. In February 1990, she became a main presenter of Good Morning Britain alongside Mike Morris.

She joined GMTV in January l993, and presented a range of programmes, including the main breakfast show with Eamonn Holmes.

Her daughter, Rosie, was born in June 1994. She returned from maternity leave in late 1994 to present her own show, Nine O'Clock Live, which was later retitled Lorraine Live and then, at the start of 2000, Lorraine.

She was national spokeswoman for the United Kingdom during the collation of votes at the Eurovision Song Contest in both 2003 and 2004, taking over from the long-serving Colin Berry.

She writes weekly columns for The Sun and The Sunday Post. Lorraine is also an avid Dundee United F.C. supporter and has been in attendance at matches.

External link

• GMTV biography of Lorraine Kelly (http://gm.tv/index.cfm?articleid=442)
• IMdb entry (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0446607/)