Sky Sports launch new Premier League show with I’m A Celeb star signed up as presenter

One Show presenter Roman Kemp has been signed up by Sky Sports to present a new Premier League preview show on Friday evenings this season.

SunSport has learned that Kemp will front a new show, Premier League Friday, to be broadcast on 5pm on Sky Sports News.

The first programme will air next Friday before the opening Premier League game of the season, Liverpool’s visit to Bournemouth, which will be broadcast live on Sky Sports.

Kemp is a big Arsenal fan and has played in the celebrity charity match Soccer Aid, but has not worked in football broadcasting before.

The former Capital One DJ, son of Spandau Ballet’s Martin Kemp, will be joined on the Sky Sports News show by rotating panel of pundits and reporters to discuss the top talking points in football and preview the weekend’s games.

Sky’s move to hire Kemp is their latest attempt to attract younger viewers to their programmes.

The broadcaster have had a turbulent summer, with seven senior staff made redundant in June including presenters Melissa Reddy and Rob Wotton.

Wotton said a tearful goodbye after 30 years at the end of May as he was applauded by the studio team.

The other presenters to be let go were Teddy Draper and Jasper Taylor, along with senior reporters Jeremy Langdon and Melissa Reddy and Fadumo Olow.

Sky Sports News are also launching a new weekday magazine programme next week, The Premier League Show, which will air on Monday to Thursday from 5pm to 7pm.

Presenting duties will be shared and rotated between Julian Warren and Emma Paton, with each episode also featuring a reporter and pundit to discuss the day’s biggest Premier League stories.

Emma Paton is Sky Sports’ leading darts presenter while also regularly hosting Sky Sports News.

Julian Warren, meanwhile took charge of hosting Soccer Saturday last week.

But he was left less than impressed when the vidiprinter made three errors in one match.