About Kelly

In October of 2009, award-winning journalist Kelly Craig became the first female cast member of the popular Paul and Young Ron radio show. The morning program originates out of Miami/Fort Lauderdale (WBGG, 105.9 FM ), and is simulcast on radio stations as far south as The Keys and northward to the Space Coast.

Having been a television anchor for more than two 2 decades, listeners of P&YR are now getting a taste of the lighter side of Kelly in her new comedic role. Says Kelly, "Being part of a show this creative and fun feels like I'm being rewarded for all those years of covering hurricanes, floods and the plague of locusts. Now all I have to do is throw a couple of zingers in here and there, and put up with the inevitable gas cloud that a room full of guys will occasionally produce. Hey, that's what hazmat suits are for..."

Kelly is married to Miami businessman Bill Hoolihan. They live in Pinecrest and are parents to Jack Ryan, 13. Be sure to check out Kelly's weekly blog on our homepage.

Ten things about me! Well here we go...

1) I love to sing, and belted out "America the Beautiful" at a Heat game once. I finished without getting the hook and pulled off the stage! I am proud to say as nervous as I was I still did not forget the words. I sing whenever a mike is put in front of me, and I always apologize to the crowd in advance.

2) I love to figure skate,and got to hit the ice with Dorothy Hamill for a TV News story we did together. I did not slice off any of her appendages with my blades.

3) I once wrote a letter to David Letterman, and he read it on his show during the "Viewer Mail" segment! It was something about putting Cat Chow in my brother's bowl of Cocoa Puffs when I was a kid. My brother turned out fine, imagine that!

4) I made a cameo appearance on the soap opera "Santa Barbara". I played Nurse Callahan.

5) After interviewing the legend Jerry Lewis while he was visiting here in South Florida, he called my home twice. Each time we had long conversations about show business and child rearing. He ended both calls by urging me to keep in touch. When it came my turn to call him, he had totally forgotten who I was and barked at me for disturbing him.

6) I can stack five dollars in change on the back of my bent forearm, flick my arm and catch all the money without any of it dropping.

7) I play a daily game called "Jumble Jong" on Shockwave.com and consistently score in the top 20 percent of all players.

8) I have 3 recurring nightmares: The first takes place in both high school and college schools. I wander the halls not being able to find my classrooms, and I won't be able to graduate. The second nightmare has me looking in the mirror to discover my teeth have fallen out. In the third, I find myself trying to do a news shift at a radio station, but in order to get to my work area, I have to crawl through a closet, climb up through a hole in the ceiling, shimmy down through some duct work and finally wind up in a dark, empty room all alone.

9) My favorite word is "spork".

10) Once, at a press conference, a high-ranking public figure was in a horrible mood and snapped at every reporter who asked a question. When he turned his vitriol towards me, I called him a d**k (no not dork) right to his face. He apologized.