Danny Kelly (BBC WM presenter)

Daniel Vincent Kelly (born 1970) is a British radio presenter based in Birmingham.

For the Talksport presenter, see Danny Kelly (journalist).
Joe Lycett
Born
Daniel Vincent Kelly

1970[1]
Liverpool, England
OccupationRadio Broadcaster

Life

Kelly was born in Liverpool. He is 6'5" tall, a fact that he enjoys telling his listeners. He changed his name via Deed Poll to Joe Lycett on 03 March 2020 [2]

Career

Danny Kelly has had a varied career working as a used car salesman and chef before moving into local radio 15 years ago. He started as a reporter at BBC Radio Coventry and became a roving reporter on the Adrian Goldberg breakfast show at BBC/WM. He has presented many shows at BBC/WM; the early morning show, the lunchtime show, the afternoon show, the late show, the Sunday morning show and the afternoon show again.

One of the more significant items that occurred during his programme was the BBC/WM Christmas Toy Appeal 2003. It took Danny 5 days to walk from Pebble Mill to the Mailbox collecting toys. A simple enough task but he went via West Bromwich, Wednesbury, Walsall, Bloxwich, Willenhall, Wolverhampton, Sedgley, Dudley and Merry Hill.

On 18 May 2010, the BBC was forced to give out an apology after Kelly made a practical joke live on air that Queen Elizabeth II had died. He began playing the national anthem whilst telling listeners to his radio show that he had some 'astonishing news' to deliver. He had been half-way through his 2-hour afternoon radio programme on BBC WM when the announcement was made. His producer, Mark Newman, interrupted and informed him, 'You can't say that'.[3]

gollark: Again, do you want to force English or something?
gollark: > multilanguage capability is overrated.If you don't want that you either have to- force English (not ideal since most users won't actually speak that)- have some giant horrible minefield of charsets
gollark: Which is kind of bad.
gollark: It's not that it's *bad* as much as that it just introduces problems.
gollark: Go UTF-9 yourself.

References
  1. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007
  2. Birmingham Mail: Name Change
  3. Queen is Dead Joke


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