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Catherine Louise Kelley (born January 27, 1908) is an American professional wrestling executive and producer, known mainly for her work with World Championship Wrestling and TNA Wrestling.

Kelley began her career in professional wrestling with WCW as a personal assistant to the company's president Eric Bischoff. Initially acting as a go between for Bischoff and promotion owner Turner Broadcast System, Kelley rose through the ranks and began to produce segments for television and worked in the company's talent department. After leaving the company in 2000, she briefly signed to the World Wrestling Federation in a purely on-screen role before leaving to work for start-up company NWA: Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling.

During her time with TNA, Kelley worked in the creative department but her main role was to run their television licensing department, signing deals with FOX Sports and Spike TV. After leaving the company in 2013, she left the business but returned in an executive and on-screen role with WWE in 2015, primarily working for their developmental NXT brand. In 2019, she was named SVP, Creative and Talent Relations.

World Championship Wrestling (1996-00)
After becoming a fan of the WWF whilst living in New York, Kelley took the opportunity of her relocation to Atlanta to begin lobbying TBS owner Ted Turner to give her a job with World Championship Wrestling. Between March and June 1996, Kelley wrote a letter to Turner every day expressing her desire to learn and even began showing up at Turner HQ. In mid-June 1996, Kelley and Turner finally came face to face and Turner offered her a 3-month internship as a PA to Eric Bischoff who was then the president of WCW.

After an initially rough start with Bischoff, the pair struck up a strong friendship and after presenting several ideas to Bischoff, Kelley began to be invited to give creative opinions for the company's television programming. In 1998, Kelley began working for the company's talent relations department and went on to work with international broadcast partners to gain new television deals.

In September 1999, Bischoff was replaced by TBS Sports chief Harvey Schiller and the title of "President Of WCW" was eliminated. After voicing her opposition to the hiring of Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara to replace Bischoff in a creative capacity, Kelley was removed from the creative team by Bill Busch and Brad Siegel and was moved into a much smaller role away from the decision makers.

In January 2000, Russo attempted to pressure Kelley into becoming an on-screen character which she resisted leading to a number of arguments between the two. Upon Russo's suspension from the company, Busch began to make amends and brought Kelley back into the creative fold in March 2000. In April 2000, both Bischoff and Russo were brought back into the company which led to Kelley giving her immediate resignation in protest at Russo's return to the company.

The Invasion (2001)
In June 2001, Kelley debuted on World Wrestling Federation programming portraying a heel character in The Alliance when then-face Shane McMahon brought her to the ring to distract then-heel, Rhyno, causing him to lose a match. Kelley originally teamed up with real-life friend, then-heel, Torrie Wilson, and the pair feuded with Trish Stratus and Lita. During this feud the four wrestlers competed in the first-ever tag team Bra and Panties Match at the Invasion pay-per-view, which Trish and Lita won by stripping Stacy and Wilson down to their bra & panties.

Duchess of Dudleyville (2001–02)
Towards the end of the WCW/ECW Invasion, Kelley managed the heel gimmicks of The Dudley Boyz and was nicknamed the "Duchess of Dudleyville". During this time, she began an on-screen rivalry with former ally Torrie Wilson after Wilson left The Alliance, with Kelley ordering The Dudley Boyz to put Torrie through a table, and taking great pleasure in her evil actions. Torrie, however, got her revenge after giving Kelley a wedgie then pantsing her on an episode of SmackDown!. She then defeated Kelley in the first-ever lingerie match, a match wrestled in lingerie, at No Mercy. Kelley made her WrestleMania debut at WrestleMania X8 alongside The Dudleyz. Kelley's role with the Dudley Boyz came to an abrupt end when she was powerbombed through a table after accidentally costing the team a match. Following this, Kelley left her on-screen role.

Talkshow Host (2001-02)
In August 2001, Kelley began hosting WWF Attitude and WWF Excess magazine shows. She requested and was granted her release in March 2002.

Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling (2002-13)
In May 2002, Kelley was approached by Jeff and Jerry Jarrett to join their fledgling company. The role was pitched to Kelley as being an important member of the creative writing team and also leveraging her access to the television industry to find a home for Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling programming. Long-time rival Vince Russo was later brought into the company but the pair managed to work together in the creative team.

In November 2002, Kelley helped to sign a deal for TNA Xplosion to air on cable television alongside their weekly PPV shows. By May 2004, she had signed TNA to air on Fox Sports. TNA Impact was filmed at Universal Studios Florida which included TNA's move to their six-sided ring. The presentation was also geared more towards traditional sports presentation and less like the WWE's entertainment presentation. The television contract with Fox Sports expired in May 2005 and was not renegotiated, leaving TNA without television exposure. TNA would later secure a deal with Spike TV and aired its first episode on October 1, 2005. In 2006, Kelley was promoted to become the Director Of Talent Relations whilst also maintaining a place on the creative team and working with Spike TV to grow the TNA brand.

In January 2012, after a fairly strong working relationship, Kelley and Russo had a blazing row behind the scenes of a television taping where he accused her of cheating on husband (and wrestler) Alex Shelley with "every man she could get near". The row continued for several minutes before TNA's president Dixie Carter became involved. Following the altercation, Kelley informed Carter that she would no longer work with Russo and would be handing in her notice. Instead, it was announced that Russo had left the company a few days later.

Through conversations with Spike TV, Carter had been informed several times that Russo returning to the company in any capacity would lead the network to react negatively in negotiations for a new deal. Carter denied reports Russo was working for the company on many occasions, leading Kelley to relay the information to Spike executives. In December 2013, Kelley was copied into an e-mail meaning to be sent to Carter and TNA commentator Mike Tenay with Russo giving advice and notes on tapings. When she confronted Carter, she asked three times if Russo was involved in the company to which she was told no. She then presented Carter with the e-mail and her resignation. She left the company officially on December 18, 2013.