Christine Kelly

Christine Eugénie Kelly, (née Tigiffon July 13, 1969) in Lamentin (Guadeloupe), is a French radio and TV presenter, journalist and writer.

Christine Kelly was born on 13 July 1969 in Lamentin, Guadeloupe, France.

Both her parents are schoolteachers who lived in a tied cottage in a school.

They then lived in a house build by her parents in Lamentin.

She is the second of four children.

Her mother was violent and her father was an alcoholic.

She has reported she suffered from child abuse was battered during her childhood.

Her mother left Guadeloupe to settle in Paris.

Her father who stopped drinking joined them a year later.

After multiple suicide attempts, Kelly left home when she was 20.

After a scientific education, Christine Kelly thought of becoming a flight attendant but decided against it and turned to television.

She has been working in the medias since 1992, first in Guadeloupe, then in metropolitan France.

In 1992, Christine Kelly joined the private channel Archipel 4, to present Caribscope, a (French-English) bilingual TV show.

At the same time, she histed a free broadcast on K’danse FM. Two years later, she became a presenter on RFO Guadeloupe.

In 1996, Christine Kelly gave up presenting to become a journalist, at 27 years old.

She was trained at the Institut national de l'audiovisuel then at the Institut de journalisme Bordeaux-Aquitaine.

She then did reportages for different regional stations of France 3, while working at the same time for the political service of RFO, the radio station Chérie FM and the newspaper Sud Ouest.

In 1997, she participated to the creation of Demain.

TV, a channel that discusses employment and professional training.

The channel is owned by the Canal+ Group.

In 1999, she work on La Chaîne Météo and Voyage.

In February 2000, she joined the continuous news channel LCI to present the morning journal.

while presenting a monthly program on RFO and becoming consultant for the UNESCO.

She is the first Black women to present a show on TV in metropolan France.

From March 2005 to July 2006, she was the editor-in-chief and presenter of a show on sustainable development, Le Magazine, on Ushuaïa TV.

After six months of research on a biography of François Fillon, she returned to televisionr in February 2008 to present the afternoon jnews on LCI and co-present Terre-Mère, a weekly show on the environment.

In September 2008, she started presenting LCI Matin week-end on Fridays from 6 to 9 AM and the Saturday and Sunday news programmes from 6:30 to 10:30 AM.

She was a member of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) from 2009 to 2015.

She then chaired the Alice Millat foundation, a European foundation for feminine sports.

On January 24, 2009, and without having applied, she is appointed to the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), the authority of regulation of audiovisual content in France, by Gérard Larcher, the Speaker of the Senate.

She is the youngest member of the CSA and the first from an overseas territory.

At that period there are talks from Nicolas Sarkozy to give her a governmental mission or even the ministry of the overseas but she said that she preferred to finish her CSA mandate.

At the CSA, Christine Kelly persuaded the television channels to iclude subtitles on their programs for the deaf and lower the sound level of ads, after 20 years of waiting in France, a world first.

She also asked to the information channels that they make News broadcasting in sign language, a first in France.

In 2009, a law project was discussed in the parliament to regulate food ads during programs destined to children.

To face the risks of an interdiction, the CSA established a « food charter » in which the advertisers formulated commitments.

As the chief of the mission « Santé et développement durable » (health and sustainable development) of the CSA, Christine Kelly defended this text.

The charter is considered inefficient by the UFC-Que Choisir, a consumer organization and by nutrition experts because it is non-binding and favoring, according to them, media financing of the fight against obesity.

the regulation of advertising for aliments pour des aliments qui sont fatty, sweet and salty destined to minors showed it's efficiency following scientific studies, experimentations and even it's implementation in other countries.

She has presented Face à l'info on the TV channel CNews since 2019.