TELEVISION presenter, Lorraine Kelly was in Edinburgh’s Festival Square yesterday (Fri) with Digit Al, the switchover robot, to kick off Digital UK’s countdown to Scotland becoming a fully digital nation.
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It’s a blubby birthday as telly fave Lorraine Kelly turns fifty
BLUBBING Scots telly babe Lorraine Kelly was in floods of tears yesterday as celebrities from across the globe wished her a happy 50th birthday.
Stars including film hunk Gerry Butler, The Bee Gees, Peter Andre and Ricky Gervais sent surprise messages while she presented yesterday morning’s GMTV.
Looking wholesome as ever in revealing tartan dress, the big-hearted Dundee mum couldn’t hold back the tears as youngsters from the Black Watch Army Cadets also passed on their best wishes.
In a morning packed full of surprises, Lorraine was relieved from her usual presenting duties by another TV queen, Paul O’Grady, with the set adorned with balloons.
The camp star leapt onto the GMTV set and whipped off his bowtie, treating Lorraine to an impromptu birthday strip-show.
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Scots star presenter Kelly celebrates 50th with charity gig
By Rory Reynolds
SCOTS sofa queen Lorraine Kelly joins the big 50 club today.
The chirpy TV favourite is still looking good as she enters her 6th decade, as her legions of polling internet fans could attest to.
The Dundee-based veteran presenter has been on the box for as long as anyone can remember, rising quickly from a cub reporter on a local paper to a TV-am telly journalist.
And it wasn’t long before she’d worked her way onto ITV, and even had a hand in helping to launch GMTV despite being in her early 30s.
Now Lorraine is one of Britain’s best-loved presenters, still fronting the early morning news and chat show, while finding time to write two newspaper columns every week and commute home to Dundee. Continue reading
Flags raised in Edinburgh to honour armed forces
By Oliver Farrimond
EDINBURGH joined a host of cities nationwide yesterday in raising a flag to honour the UK’s armed forces.
The ceremony, attended by senior military officials and Lord Provost George Grubb, marks the start of a packed week of events to honour armed forces past, present and future.
The flag will be on display at the Capital’s city chambers until this Saturday (27 June), when the city will play host to a parachute drop, an RAF Nimrod fly-by with a tank-led parade to follow on 4 July.
Respectful crowds gathered to watch the ceremony, which saw the flag hoisted above the chambers accompanied by traditional Scottish pipers.
Lord Provost George Grubb said: “Here in Edinburgh, we will be honouring our armed forces with a fantastic day for the whole family to take part in, watch and enjoy. Continue reading
Cheeky Lorraine gets knickers in a twist
LORRAINE Kelly became the Armed Forces new poster girl yesterday when she almost put her privates on parade.
Strutting her stuff in tartan high heels and a short black skirt, the saucy Scots TV star flashed her knickers while clambering on top of a Challenger II tank.
She perked up the Redford Barracks troops with her early morning briefing, before telling them: “I think you boys are all absolutely gorgeous.”
The 49-year-old yummy mummy has been deployed as the secret weapon at the frontline of the launch of the first ever UK Armed Forces Day.
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Avid Arab Lorraine Kelly fears Setanta disaster
FOOTBALL daft telly star Lorraine Kelly says she’s terrified over the prospect of Setanta Sports going bust – because she won’t be able to watch her beloved Dundee United while filming in London.
The 49-year-old Arabs fan she is a subscriber to the beleaguered station like many of other Scots working away from home, and will be “devastated” if the channel has the plug pulled on it.
And she’s waiting anxiously to find out if the stricken subscription-only channel will plunge the league into limbo, fearing a blackout will leave the Tannadice club crippled for transfer cash.
She said: “I just hope they can find a buyer because a lot of clubs will be feeling it because it’s an awful lot of money that they owe.
FEMALE TAXI RANKS: Girlguiding Scotland calls for girls-only ranks
By Cara Sulieman
A YOUTH organisation is campaigning for female-only taxi ranks to be introduced in Scotland’s biggest cities.
Girlguiding Scotland are asking local authorities to introduce the marshalled ranks in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen after a survey showed girls under 18 are often scared when making their way home.
The proposal comes after the organisation carried out a survey of 1,000 girl guides.
Girls Shout Out
Girls Shout Out – the report of the survey – also suggests that councils give young girls rape alarms and flip-flops when they are out clubbing. Continue reading
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