{"id":72,"date":"2025-02-28T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72"},"modified":"2025-03-01T20:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T20:49:23","slug":"going-for-gold-presenter-henry-kelly-dies-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Going For Gold presenter Henry Kelly dies at 78"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Journalist and TV presenter Henry Kelly has died aged 78, his family has announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rema - Baby (Is it a Crime) [Official Video]\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MsZhYgo9MoA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He also presented programmes on BBC Radio 4, LBC and Classic FM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, Kelly&#8217;s family said he &#8220;died peacefully&#8221; on Tuesday &#8220;after a period of ill health&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Henry will be sorely missed by his friends and family,&#8221; it continued, &#8220;including his partner Karolyn Shindler, their son Alexander, Henry&#8217;s daughter Siobhan and her mother Marjorie&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Dublin on 17 April 1946, Kelly started his journalistic career in newspapers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He worked for The Irish Times in the 1970s during civil unrest and the Troubles in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He left the newspaper and moved to London to join the BBC in 1976, working as a reporter and presenter for Radio 4&#8217;s The World Tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in 1980, aged 34, he left journalism to become a light entertainment presenter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He went on to front ITV&#8217;s Game For A Laugh, and the first iteration of Good Morning Britain on TV-am, alongside Toni Arthur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelly also fronted lunchtime quiz show Going For Gold for 10 seasons from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme tune for Going For Gold was composed by Hans Zimmer, who went on to become a hugely successful film and TV composer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The show saw contestants from different European countries compete against each other to answer questions to win prizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going For Gold was briefly revived in the late 2000s by Channel 5, presented by John Suchet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelly later became one of the launch presenters of Classic FM and also hosted shows on speech station LBC, BBC Radio London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He hosted a show on BBC Radio Berkshire for 10 years from 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to Challenge TV\u00a0about his memories of Going for Gold, Kelly \u2013 who almost missed the hosting audition as he was planning to play golf \u2013 noted how &#8220;the whole point&#8221; of the show &#8220;was that it was Pan-European&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We were the only people in this country at the time, and probably since, who were really European, and so we had contestants from all over Europe,&#8221; he said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn04y7dg68ko\">(BBC)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[111,109,108,107,110,112,113],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bbc","tag-gameshow","tag-going-for-gold","tag-henry-kelly","tag-light-entertainment","tag-radio","tag-television"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Going For Gold presenter Henry Kelly dies at 78 - Tona Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Journalist and TV presenter Henry Kelly has died aged 78, his family has announced. Kelly was a journalist who later p\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Going For Gold presenter Henry Kelly dies at 78 - Tona Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Journalist and TV presenter Henry Kelly has died aged 78, his family has announced. Kelly was a journalist who later p\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tona Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-28T08:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-01T20:49:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/tona.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Henry-Kelly.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tona.Today\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tona.Today\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/?p=72#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/?p=72\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Tona.Today\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/76420356652545dc8fd331a11f052477\"},\"headline\":\"Going For Gold presenter Henry Kelly dies at 78\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-28T08:30:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-01T20:49:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/?p=72\"},\"wordCount\":413,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/?p=72#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/Henry-Kelly.webp\",\"keywords\":[\"BBC\",\"gameshow\",\"Going For Gold\",\"Henry Kelly\",\"light entertainment\",\"Radio\",\"Television\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Entertainment\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/?p=72#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/?p=72\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/?p=72\",\"name\":\"Going For Gold presenter Henry Kelly dies at 78 - Tona Today\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/?p=72#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/?p=72#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/Henry-Kelly.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-28T08:30:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-01T20:49:23+00:00\",\"description\":\"Journalist and TV presenter Henry Kelly has died aged 78, his family has announced. Kelly was a journalist who later p\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/?p=72#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/?p=72\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/?p=72#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/Henry-Kelly.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/Henry-Kelly.webp\",\"width\":800,\"height\":450},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/?p=72#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Going For Gold presenter Henry Kelly dies at 78\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/\",\"name\":\"Tona Today\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Tona Today\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/cropped-cropped-Your-paragraph-text-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/cropped-cropped-Your-paragraph-text-1.jpg\",\"width\":500,\"height\":117,\"caption\":\"Tona Today\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/76420356652545dc8fd331a11f052477\",\"name\":\"Tona.Today\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/caa7d2f1284ad52494d77a04b46fce0d6bf1fe423c5ef2a52e1d3c44ff2fad10?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/caa7d2f1284ad52494d77a04b46fce0d6bf1fe423c5ef2a52e1d3c44ff2fad10?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/caa7d2f1284ad52494d77a04b46fce0d6bf1fe423c5ef2a52e1d3c44ff2fad10?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Tona.Today\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/tona.today\\\/?author=2\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Going For Gold presenter Henry Kelly dies at 78 - Tona Today","description":"Journalist and TV presenter Henry Kelly has died aged 78, his family has announced. Kelly was a journalist who later p","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Going For Gold presenter Henry Kelly dies at 78 - Tona Today","og_description":"Journalist and TV presenter Henry Kelly has died aged 78, his family has announced. Kelly was a journalist who later p","og_url":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72","og_site_name":"Tona Today","article_published_time":"2025-02-28T08:30:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-03-01T20:49:23+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":450,"url":"https:\/\/tona.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Henry-Kelly.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"author":"Tona.Today","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Tona.Today","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72"},"author":{"name":"Tona.Today","@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/#\/schema\/person\/76420356652545dc8fd331a11f052477"},"headline":"Going For Gold presenter Henry Kelly dies at 78","datePublished":"2025-02-28T08:30:00+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-01T20:49:23+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72"},"wordCount":413,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/tona.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Henry-Kelly.webp","keywords":["BBC","gameshow","Going For Gold","Henry Kelly","light entertainment","Radio","Television"],"articleSection":["Entertainment"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72","url":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72","name":"Going For Gold presenter Henry Kelly dies at 78 - Tona Today","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/tona.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Henry-Kelly.webp","datePublished":"2025-02-28T08:30:00+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-01T20:49:23+00:00","description":"Journalist and TV presenter Henry Kelly has died aged 78, his family has announced. Kelly was a journalist who later p","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/tona.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Henry-Kelly.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/tona.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Henry-Kelly.webp","width":800,"height":450},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=72#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/tona.today\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Going For Gold presenter Henry Kelly dies at 78"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/#website","url":"https:\/\/tona.today\/","name":"Tona Today","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/#organization","name":"Tona Today","url":"https:\/\/tona.today\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/tona.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cropped-cropped-Your-paragraph-text-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/tona.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cropped-cropped-Your-paragraph-text-1.jpg","width":500,"height":117,"caption":"Tona Today"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/tona.today\/#\/schema\/person\/76420356652545dc8fd331a11f052477","name":"Tona.Today","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/caa7d2f1284ad52494d77a04b46fce0d6bf1fe423c5ef2a52e1d3c44ff2fad10?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/caa7d2f1284ad52494d77a04b46fce0d6bf1fe423c5ef2a52e1d3c44ff2fad10?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/caa7d2f1284ad52494d77a04b46fce0d6bf1fe423c5ef2a52e1d3c44ff2fad10?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Tona.Today"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/tona.today"],"url":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?author=2"}]}},"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tona.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tona.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tona.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tona.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tona.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tona.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/tona.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tona.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tona.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tona.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tona.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}