Kate Garraway has made an emotional return to ‘Good Morning Britain’.
The 53-year-old broadcaster has been off screen while her husband, Derek Draper, has been seriously ill after contracting coronavirus and though he is still in a "minimal state of consciousness", Kate was happy to be out of her "little bubble of sadness" as she joined Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan on the ITV show on Wednesday (08.07.20).
After the hosts welcomed her to the set and hailed her return as emotional, she replied: "Really emotional, as soon as I walked in it thought, ‘Oh god, this is no good, I’m gonna cry now, hold it together.’
"It’s so lovely to see your faces, it’s lovely to be back, it’s like coming out of a little bubble of sadness. It’s just so strange to still be in the situation."
Kate also confirmed she’ll be returning to the show as anchor from next week when Piers and Susanna take their summer break.
She said: "It’s life, it’s livelihood, it’s fear and anxiety, I have got to get on and do the things I’m good at. I’m going to come back on Monday, if you’ll have me, you two are going. I’ve not quite got the fight to be a Piers Morgan but I’m gonna be with Ben Shephard.
"The doctors have said I’ve got to get on, they’ve been worried about me."
The show later confirmed she will be back on both Monday and Tuesday.
Although she revealed at the weekend her husband was out of his induced coma, Kate admitted Derek is still "desperately" ill and doctors have told her they’ve never treated anyone so sick.
She said: "His eyes are opening but we have no knowledge of what he can see or hear.
"It’s a very desperate situation, it’s very difficult and of course there’s fantastic hope he is still alive, he is the doctors keep saying it is a miracle he’s still alive.
"I was speaking to somebody yesterday, a doctor who has treated him in two hospitals and he said, ‘He’s as sick as anyone I’ve ever seen in 35 years of medicine, never mind Covid, and some of those people are no longer here.’
"It’s great that he’s here, there’s flickers of hope, his lungs are starting to recover, his kidneys and liver are doing better but they don’t know how much better he can get and there’s nothing to compare it to."