How Lorraine Kelly proved her ex-boss wrong to become the queen of morning TV
In the summer of 1989, Lorraine Kelly, then the Scotland correspondent for ITV’s breakfast show TV-am, travelled down to the London studio. One of the usual hosts was on holiday, and Kelly had been drafted in as backup. The gig was only meant to last a week – but Kelly never really left. If you’ve tuned in to ITV on a weekday morning at any point over the past four decades or so, there’s a high chance that you’ll have been greeted by her soft Glaswegian tones.
Whether it wasin the Eighties(the original) and in the Nineties and Noughties, or her own show , which has been on air since 2010, Kelly has perched on a colourful sofa, delivering headlines, disarming famous guests, and juggling the strange high-low mix of breakfast telly: a feature on a dancing animal or a fashion trend one moment, an emotional report the next. She “always manages to make the daily demands of live broadcasting look easy”, as Bafta’s Hilary Rosen (she’ll receive the trophy, which recognises outstanding contribution to TV, at the ).
