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Good Morning Britain's Ben Shephard kept secret from Kate Garraway for 20 years

Good Morning Britain hosts Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway were well acquainted before they took over the helm of the daytime programme.

In fact, the presenters have known each other for decades. Ben has previously referred to his co-star as his "best friend", and he told the Metro: "There are no words to explain my admiration for Kate".

In 2019, Ben told GMB viewers he and Kate would regularly meet for a coffee, and it was during one of these meet-ups some 20 years earlier that Ben was left "embarrassed".

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Ben said: "It took me 20 years to get over it... we were working together and lived round the corner from one another, we literally were neighbours. I’d invited myself over for a cup of tea, I was cycling everywhere at the time and her kitchen was in her basement.

“I was chaining my bike up and it was lunchtime, so Kate had obviously gone home and had a sleep and then suddenly someone walked into the kitchen and I looked up and it was Kate and she was topless. I stopped and I was just transfixed.”

Kate, who was sat beside him on the show at the time, interjected with: “Paralysed like a cobra", before Ben added: "I didn’t want to move because she would notice me and that would be really embarrassing.”

Unable to keep it a secret any more, Ben told Kate what had happened one morning at work.

In 2020, Kate told OK! how "Ben has done so much for [her]" during their 20 year friendship. She added: "I’m very grateful that he has been there".

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