Kate Garraway returns to ITV three days after Derek Draper’s funeral
- Garraway speaks from her house through videolink three days after Draper’s funeral
- She will return to internet hosting Good Morning Britain on Thursday with Ben Shephard
TV presenter Kate Garraway returned to ITV‘s Good Morning Britain right this moment to offer an emotional interview discussing her late husband’s funeral and remaining months.
The 56-year-old spoke from her house through videolink simply three days after his funeral – and can return to internet hosting the programme from Thursday alongside Ben Shephard.
Garraway, whose husband Derek Draper died on January 3 aged 56, took a break from her presenting position final December after he had a cardiac arrest. She is claimed to be beneath monetary strain after spending virtually £1million on medical payments.
The host is claimed to be ‘eager to maintain busy and get again to work’, and can be hoping to return to her present on Smooth Radio. She is provisionally scheduled to return full-time, however ITV have supplied her the choice to take break day as and when she wants.
The funeral of Draper – which was attended by figures together with ex-prime minister Sir Tony Blair, musician Sir Elton John and Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer – was held final Friday on the Church Of St Mary The Virgin in Primrose Hill, North West London.
TV presenter Kate Garraway returned to ITV ‘s Good Morning Britain right this moment
Ahead of Garraway’s return to GMB, a put up on the present’s X account mentioned yesterday: ‘Tomorrow Kate Garraway joins us to speak for the primary time because the demise of her beloved husband Derek. Watch from 6am on ITV.’
In a brief video accompanying the put up, which included a sequence of photos and clips of the pair, an ITV voiceover mentioned: ‘Kate Garraway has shared the story of caring for Derek during the last 4 years, highlighting the battle confronted by 1000’s.
‘Tomorrow, she returns to Good Morning Britain to speak for the primary time because the demise of her beloved husband.’
After the funeral Garraway, sporting a protracted black coat and pearl necklace and carrying a candle, left the church with the couple’s kids – Darcey, 17, and Billy, 14.
Former political lobbyist-turned-psychologist Draper married Karraway on the similar church in September 2005.
Darcey acted as a pall bearer when the coffin, lined with purple and white flowers, made its approach out of the church.
Draper fell severely unwell in the course of the early a part of the pandemic in March 2020 and spent 13 months in hospital earlier than he was discharged.
ITV launched a trailer yesterday forward of Kate Garraway’s return to Good Morning Britain
A marriage image of Kate Garraway and Derek Draper from 2005 was within the trailer yesterday
Kate Garraway is seen in a trailer launched yesterday forward of her interview on Monday
He died on January 3 after struggling long-lasting signs from coronavirus.
A key determine within the early years of New Labour within the Nineteen Nineties, Draper was a former researcher for Lord Peter Mandelson.
Former Labour MPs equivalent to Lord Mandelson and Ed Balls – who additionally now works as a GMB presenter – paid their respects final Friday and Sir Tony gave a speech in the course of the eulogies.
Mourners additionally included shadow local weather change secretary Ed Miliband, Sir Tony’s spouse Cherie Blair and former Number 10 director of communications Alastair Campbell.
Draper arrange the Progress organisation with Liam Byrne, who went on to change into a Labour MP, and was additionally an writer.
He wrote the ebook Blair’s Hundred Days which chronicled a few of Sir Tony’s first 12 months as prime minister, together with Life Support: A Survival Guide For The Modern Soul.
Sir Elton, who attended the funeral along with his husband David Furnish and had supplied consolation to Garraway and Draper by his sickness, held the order of service in his arms as he exited the church.
He additionally sang his ballad Skyline Pigeon – which accommodates the lyrics ‘fly away, skyline pigeon fly, in direction of the goals, you have left so very far behind’ – in tribute to Draper.
The hymns sung embrace Lord Of The Dance by Sydney Carter and psalm 23 The Lord’s My Shepherd.
Kate Garraway and her kids – Darcey, 17, and William, 14 – depart Derek Derek’s funeral at the Church Of St Mary The Virgin in Primrose Hill, North West London, final Friday
Kate Garraway follows the coffin into the funeral service of her husband Derek Draper on the Church Of St Mary The Virgin in Primrose Hill, North West London, final Friday
A choir additionally carried out songs on this order: Gospel Acclamation Alleluia, Alleluia!, Sanctus And Benedictus, Agnus Dei, God Be In My Head by Sir Henry Walford Davies and canticle Nunc Dimittis.
GMB stars Charlotte Hawkins, Ben Shephard, Richard Madeley, Alex Beresford, Rob Rinder, Susanna Reid, Sean Fletcher and Richard Arnold additionally attended the funeral.
Singer and TV presenter Myleene Klass, who has beforehand stepped in to host Garraway’s radio present, and actress Tina Hobley, who has been on Holby City and introduced on Smooth Radio, had been additionally amongst on the service.
Those on the church additionally included journalist Robert Peston, expertise supervisor Jonathan Shalit, radio presenter Roman Kemp, former Sky News political editor Adam Boulton and former political editor of GMTV and ex-Labour MP, Gloria De Piero.
Sir Elton had beforehand invited Draper and Garraway to be friends of honour at his Farewell Yellow Brick Road live performance at London’s O2 final 12 months.
Garraway informed her Smooth Radio listeners in April 2023 that Sir Elton had been ‘so supportive’ of her household since her husband fell unwell.
TV presenter Fiona Phillips and This Morning editor Martin Frizell, who each labored on the previous ITV morning programme GMTV, and former GMB star Piers Morgan, had been additionally in attendance final Friday.
Kate Garraway and Derek Draper on the National Television Awards in London in 2007
Garraway, a former GMTV presenter, usually offered well being updates about her husband on the ITV morning programme and fronted two documentaries on the channel about how the household’s life had modified following his sickness.
When she gained the authored documentary prize on the National Television Awards for ITV’s Caring For Derek, she introduced Darcey alongside together with her when she went to the ceremony in 2022.
Draper was admitted to hospital in December after having a cardiac arrest.
Garraway introduced her husband’s demise on Instagram, with a put up saying: ‘I’m unhappy to need to inform you all that my darling husband Derek has handed away’.
‘As a few of it’s possible you’ll know he has been critically unwell following a cardiac arrest in early December which, due to the injury inflicted by Covid in March 2020, led to additional problems.
‘Derek was surrounded by his household in his remaining days and I used to be by his aspect holding his hand all through the final lengthy hours and when he handed.’
Draper, a former director of lobbying agency GPC Market Access, was caught up within the lobbygate scandal within the Nineteen Nineties and left politics.
He later based and edited LabourRecord, a left-wing rival to on-line portals equivalent to Conservative Home, however later stepped down from the location in 2009.
