Richard Keys and Andy Gray, the former Sky Sports presenters, are reportedly considering leaving broadcasting for good when they depart beIN Sports at the end of the 2025-26 season. The duo, now aged 68 and 70, have spent the last 13 years in Qatar fronting Premier League and Champions League coverage after leaving Sky in 2011.
According to The Telegraph, Keys and Gray have reached a mutual agreement with their employers to part ways on amicable terms. Both are planning to return to the UK, with Keys set to move in permanently with his wife, Lucie Rose, whom he married in 2013. Neither is expected to continue broadcasting upon their return.
As things stand, Keys and Gray are not expected to anchor coverage of this summer's World Cup, despite having fronted beIN Sports' offering in 2022 when the tournament took place in Qatar.
Keys and Gray were the faces of Sky Sports' Premier League coverage until Gray was sacked in 2011 for making sexist remarks about assistant referee Sian Massey. Keys later resigned after clips of his comments were made public. In a 2021 recording, Keys was heard saying: 'Somebody better get down there and explain offside to her.' Gray replied: 'Yeah, I know. Can you believe that? Female linesman... they probably don't know the offside rule.'
Keys has since claimed that 'dark forces' were working against them and that the incident was a set-up. 'Don't forget, neither of us were caught behind an open mic,' he said. 'What happened to me was recorded on a telephone in that studio, it seems to me it was done with a specific purpose.'
