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- Dame Kelly Holmes is embarking on a brand new chapter, joining the cast of Loose Women as a new panellist. The multi-Olympic medal winner, who came out as gay earlier this year after hiding her sexuality for 34 years, explained that she will ‘join in on many conversations that I felt I never could before’.
Dame Kelly Holmes DBE OLY [2] (born 19 April 1970) is a retired British middle distance athlete, TV presenter and television personality. Holmes specialised in the 800 metres and 1,500 metres events and won gold medals for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
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Nov 14, 2023 · It crowned a career blighted by injury battles, depression and gutsy near-misses for a national hero who had combined the early years of her track career with a job in the Army. Watch the...
Nov 14, 2023 · She was still grieving the 2017 death of her mother when she was laid low for three weeks with Covid. While ill, she envisioned friends and family speaking about her after her death and...
Oct 13, 2022 · Dame Kelly, 52, took part in her final major championship, the 2004 Olympics in Athens, and won gold at 800m and 1500m, but said that the "pressure to succeed" led her to a breakdown when she was 33.
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Olympian Dame Kelly Holmes has hailed motor neurone disease (MND) campaigner Rob Burrow as an "inspiration".
When she was 22 years old, Holmes was raided by Royal Military police - an experience she says was extremely frightening and intimidating. Holmes believes the purpose of the raid was to...