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Dougie Donnelly gained a Law Degree at Strathclyde University, is renowned as a professional and personable presenter and host of corporate dinners, awards ceremonies, promotional events, sales conferences and corporate videos and is also in constant demand as an entertaining after dinner speaker. Among companies that have engaged Dougie are Norwich Union, Ford, Barratt Homes, ScottishPower, Bank of Scotland and BAA to name but a few.
Away from broadcasting Dougie Donnelly remains a sport enthusiast, he is a keen golfer, playing and speaking at corporate golf events throughout the UK.
Dougie Donnelly is one of the BBC’s top television sports presenters and, since joining the BBC in 1978, he has been involved with a wide variety of major network sporting productions including presenting the BBC’s premier sport programme GRANDSTAND. In Scotland he is perhaps most associated with the sport he has presented and reported on for more than twenty years, FOOTBALL, while the rest of the UK will know Dougie better through his fifteen year presentation of GOLF and SNOOKER.
During this time Dougie Donnelly has built a rapport with the players, officials and fans from all sides of the sporting spectrum giving him some wonderful anecdotes to entertain and amuse audiences in his role as after dinner speaker and/or master of ceremonies at events throughout the UK.
Football has been one of Dougie Donnelly's main focuses of Dougie’s presenting live games from European Competitions, the SPL, Scottish Cup and Internationals. Golf also features heavily in Dougie's schedule having covered both the Masters and the Open and having interviewed some the World’s top players including Tiger Woods, Nick Price, Ernie Els, Seve Ballesteros, Greg Norman and, his long time friends, Colin Montgomerie and Lee Westwood to name a few.
Dougie Donnelly has covered five Olympic Games, three Summer two Winter, where he famously commentated on the British Ladies Curling team winning Gold. He has has travelled extensively during his time with the BBC covering some of the World’s major sporting events, over and above the Olympic and Commonwealth Games he has presented two World Cup Tournaments and three European Championship.
He has also produced, written and presented a variety of sell through video biographies for sporting personalities including Gavin Hastings and Ally McCoist, Lubo Moravcik and Paul Gascoigne.
While Dougie Donnelly has established himself as a sports presenter his versatility is underlined by his presentation of non-sporting programmes, including two series of his own chat show for BBC Scotland, which included a one off special with Billy Connolly, and quiz shows for both ITV and BBC. He was also an award winning disc jockey on Radio Clyde where he presented the station's most listened to midweek programme, the mid-morning show. During this time he was named ‘Scottish Television Personality of the Year’ and ‘Radio Personality of the Year’ on three occasions.
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"Your compering was perfectly timed just like a Jonathan Edwards Triple Jump from the board and you handled the evening with all your usual debonair, professional, articulate and humorous style."
"On behalf of Cisco thank you very much for speaking (and playing) at our Golf Day. Without trying to patronise, you did a fantastic job and it just a shame time was tight as the audience certainly wanted more."
"We would like to thank you for the excellent manner in which you entertained the media and guests and handled the awards ceremony as compere for the evening."
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