Kate Garraway looked relaxed as she shared a snap of herself snuggled up in bed before her latest appearance on Good Morning Britain. The presenter was flooded with messages as she shared the photo of herself settling down to watch the Love Island final on Monday night.
She could be seen fully ready for the last episode of the 2022 series of the ITV2 dating show, donning a white dressing gown which had been branded with her name in the show's classic bright pink lettering. Kate, 55, grinned make-up free for the camera as she held up a matching water bottle that all the islanders are constantly seen sipping from on the show.
"Alll snuggled up for another #final with some very different #lionesses ( & #lions )," the mum-of-two captioned the post. "Early night as on @gmb 6 am tmrw with the fabulous @chloekelly plus all the latest news . @itv2 #loveisland final . #euro2020 @lionesses @richardmadeleyofficial @seanfletchertv."
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Kate's post came after she returned to GMB after an unexpected three week break to be with her husband. She was back at the helm of the ITV news programme on Monday alongside Richard Madeley. She confirmed her return on Sunday night, telling her loyal followers that she had time off as her husband Derek Draper’s health "took an unexpected and frightening turn for the worse".
She said the family's latest scare led to Derek, 54, being back in intensive care and fighting for his life, just over a year since he returned home from hospital where he spent 12 months after contracting coronavirus at the start of the pandemic in March 2020.
"Thanks to the amazing NHS teams & his own extraordinary life force & spirit Derek - please god - is back on the right side of it now and Im so looking forward to seeing you all back on @gmb," Kate added. She also discussed her absence on GMB as she was comforted by Richard.
"I dramatically disappeared and haven’t been here for three weeks now," the Smooth Radio host explained. "We were on air and Derek had come out of hospital, he’s been going in and out of hospital for a while for looking at ways to tackle the damage caused by Covid back in 2020.
“But we haven’t really had any sort of medical eruptions, and then he just was really unwell. He’d come out of hospital the day before and (I) got a phone call from the person who was looking after him saying, ‘right, we’re really worried’, so I whizzed home, and it just sort of went ‘boom’ from there."
Derek was taken to hospital where Kate said they discovered he had "very severe sepsis, life-threatening sepsis." Sepsis occurs when the body overreacts to an infection and starts to damage its own tissues and organs which can be fatal and is notoriously hard to spot.
Kate continued: "So it was really dramatic; brilliant work by the A&E, absolutely extraordinary because when you’ve got sepsis, the big challenge is (to) find the source of infection quickly and get the right antibiotics and his blood pressure was so low…" She said that by a "process of eliminations and questions," and after a junior doctor asking her what she thought the cause may be, she suggested it could be a urine infection. Having ruled out her husband having Covid-19 again, she said: “I did wonder if it was a urine infection but weirdly, we couldn’t get anything for a sample and they just went ‘kidneys’?"
Kate added: "Unfortunately his kidneys were really badly infected, blocked. The challenge now is to save them, so that’s where we’ve been for the last three weeks. He’s still in hospital, not in intensive care, waiting for another procedure, looking really good. So fingers crossed on everything and particularly one kidney looking really good, just need to look at the other one, and so yeah, he’s still in (a) high dependency (unit)."
Sharing the support on her latest post, @ julienewton1975 wrote: "Nice to see you back on the telly this morning. Do hope Derek is doing well." @ donnapreston225 said: "Lots of love Kate your Derek is one fighter that’s for sure !! Much love to you all." @samwood1970 commented: "Aaawww I really hope your OK Kate and that Derek will be back where he belongs very soon big hugs and lovely to see you back on screen again today."
@valerie.robinson.75248795 shared: "So good to see you back Kate Sendind you all lots of Love praying for Derek to get better big hugs to you all x God bless x." @katesgarrawayx replied: "So good to see you back doing what you love the most, you look gorgeous.2" @nellygreen33 added: "It was great to have you back brightening up everyone's morning!"
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