   lorraine paula kelly, obe (born 30 november 1959) is a british television presenter, journalist and actress, best known as a presenter for tv-am, and later gmtv and itv breakfast, on daybreak and lorraine. previously, she was a reporter and main presenter of tv-am's good morning britain, one of the uk's original breakfast television news programmes. between 2012 and 2014, kelly was a main female presenter of itv's daybreak, which she co-hosted from monday to thursdays with aled jones. ==early life== kelly was born in gorbals, glasgow. she is of irish ancestry and kelly's father, john, worked as a television repairman. she spent the first few years of her life in glasgow before the family moved to east kilbride where she attended claremont high school."meet scotland's star pupils" the sun, 5 august 2010 she turned down a university place to read english and russian in favour of a job on the east kilbride news,"dundee united winning the scottish cup was one of those days you want to put in a box and wrap in a bow", the herald (glasgow), 28 june 2010 her local newspaper, and then joined bbc scotland as a researcher in 1983. she moved to tv-am as an on-screen reporter covering scottish news in 1984. ==presenting career== ===tv-am===  in early october 1984 kelly, joined tvam as scotland correspondent. in july 1989, kelly presented tv-am's summer sunday programme with chief reporter geoff meade, and
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