BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award is an award given annually as part of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony each December. The award is given "for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity", and the winner is selected by BBC Sport. The award is named after the BBC sports presenter Helen Rollason, who died in August 1999 at the age of 43 after suffering from cancer for two years. Helen Rollason was the first female presenter of "Grandstand". After being diagnosed with cancer, she
Ross Kelly (presenter) producer, but quickly become a relief presenter and reporter. In 1999 he was quiz master for BBC2 "Whose House" In July 2000, Kelly left GMTV and went on to present The Heaven and Earth Show, Burn Your Bills, a Scottish Television Gameshow and again helped out on This Morning He appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank in 2001. Ross Kelly (presenter) Ross Kelly is a Scottish born presenter, who appeared on Lookaround, GMTV (1993-2000) and The Heaven and Earth Show. Kelly was born in Galashiels, Scotland and studied at the University of Edinburgh in language and literature. In 1984, originally