'Drives me nuts' Lorraine Kelly furious at 'disgusting and dispiriting' locals

Anne Robinson announced she was leaving Countdown a year after becoming host, speculation has been mounting over who will take on the mantle next. With individuals including Sir Trevor McDonald, Moira Stuart and Colin Murray (who was recently announced as a temporary stand-in) named as possible contenders to replace her, Lorraine Kelly reckons Carol Vorderman – who was on the programme for 26 years – would be the perfect candidate. On Monday’s Lorraine, Carol was interviewed in the ITV studio alongside her Celebrity Gogglebox co-star Gyles Brandreth, when the subject of Countdown’s future was raised.

Britain’s first transgender parents introduced their second daughter to the world on Lorraine on Thursday 24 June, praising “what people can achieve when they're just given love and support”. Jake, 42, and Hannah Graf, 34, spoke to TV host Lorraine Kelly with their newborn baby Teddy, who was born via surrogate and delivered by emergency C-section.The couple are already parents to a two year old daughter named Millie Winter Grad, born in April 2020, who is believed to be the first baby born in the UK to transgender parents by surrogate.

Lorraine Kelly “pretends to be a prude” according her daughter Rosie Smith who “made her watch Love Island” for the first time.During Wednesday’s instalment of the popular podcast Love Island: The Morning After, hosts Arielle Free and Kem Cetinay welcomed the 28-year-old onto the show to talk about all the drama going on in the villa.Ahead of the juicy interview the Hello writer managed to convince her mother to watch the beloved reality show, and it’s fair to say the pair were in for a rollercoaster of a show.READ MORE: Love Island bosses accused of 'letting rulers slip' by former winner Kym CetinayAfter watching last night’s bombshell episode, the brunette beauty joined the former Islanders on the show where she confessed the TV presenter was secretly “hooked” on the show.Want all the last villa gossip straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily Love Island newsletter HERE.Before they discussed the explosive episode in depth, Arielle asked Rosie what her telly mum thought of the show coming into it as a complete novice.She told listeners: “Do you know what? I made her watch it for the first time the other night very, very reluctantly and she was not having it at all.And then right at the end, when the cliff-hanger ends as it always does, she was addicted so I think she’s hooked.“She’ll never admit that she’s hooked, that’s the thing.

Lorraine Kelly welcomed Loose Women star Brenda Edwards onto her show and the pair discussed the recent death of her son, music producer and pioneer Jamal Edwards.Brenda was missing from the Loose Women panel after her son died back in February this year.She dealt with his passing away from the spotlight but has recently rejoined the cast and is now reprising her role in Chicago, a character she first undertook back in 2006.Lorraine welcomed Brenda to the show and they discussed her nerves during the production's recent rehearsals and Brenda said she was "nervous" as she was "joining the crew," whereas performers usually "open the show together".Read more: Peter Andre says Brenda Edwards prompted him to have hard talk with his kidsThey then touched upon her return to Loose Women and Brenda praised her pals for their love and support during such a difficult time.She said: "I missed them so much, I love all the different personalities, obviously, but everyone individually sent me messages, flowers, food. Judi and Charlene came round with food, it was too much.

Lorraine Kelly, 62, candidly confessed last week that she has struggled to find time to watch Piers Morgan’s new TalkTV show, Uncensored.The ITV host explained how her packed schedule means she has not yet been able to watch the former Good Morning Britain presenter’s new programme.When asked whether she has seen his new show, Lorraine said: “Do you know what? I have seen… Because obviously a lot of the people that worked with us are actually working with him behind the scenes.“The show is at 8 o’clock at night - it’s quite difficult.That’s usually when I’m doing my homework or catching up with stuff.“But, you know, it’s going to find its place. It’s going to find its place.“And look, the more choice the better, as far as I’m concerned.

Lorraine Kelly has issued a huge health announcement as she marks a massive weight milestone. The Scottish TV star shared an update as she hit her stone and a half goal at WW.

Lorraine Kelly shared a delighted snap after dropping 21lbs and meeting her weight loss goal.

Princess Diana's concern over the "burden" son Prince William is set to face. Appearing on Tuesday morning's instalment (June 21) of Lorraine, Jennie spoke in celebration of Prince William's 40th birthday as he hits the milestone today.The presenter, 71, admitted she occasionally spoke to the late Princess about raising her two sons and revealed what Diana said to her about William's future role in the royal family.Jennie said: "I used to speak to Diana sometimes about the boys and bringing them up, and I remember one thing she said about William - she said that the burden of Kingship weighed heavily on his shoulders."Despite the worry for her eldest son, Diana "thought he was going to be alright," and believed "the country is very lucky," to have William.The Cash in the Attic host agreed with the late Princess saying: "It's a very simple sentence but I think it's true, I think we are lucky to have him."She added: "He's turned into a wonderful young man and I think he's shaping up to be a wonderful future king."Speaking about watching William grow into the man he has become today, Jennie admitted it was never easy for the dad-of-three."I watched him through those difficult troubled adolescent years and he was a troubled young man of course, with his parents marriage breaking up before his eyes," the Great British Menu narrator said.Lorraine, 62, spoke about Will's life now and believes he's "all set" thanks to his happy marriage with wife Kate Middleton, 40 and their three children - George, 8, Charlotte, 7 and 4-year-old Louis.Responding to this, Jennie admitted Diana played a huge part in shaping Will into the man he is by the places she took him when he was a child.

Lorraine were left rather distracted during Monday morning's show as former Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher looked completely different. The 38 year old came on the popular ITV show to discuss his latest project with presenter Lorraine Kelly as well as being a father of twins.But as the star got into the discussion with the TV host, fans seemed to be concentrating more on his rather bushy moustache.

Prince Charles, 73, and Prince William, 39, both reportedly stepped in to prevent Prince Andrew's return to public life at Royal Ascot and the Order of the Garter Ceremony.Andrew, 62, is understood to be enraged with his elder brother and nephew, who it is believed persuaded the Queen, 96, to stop Andrew from attending the full Order of the Garter Ceremony, which was presided over by his mother at Windsor Castle earlier this month.Instead, he was only seen at some parts of the Knights of the Garter Ceremony.Buckingham Palace reported that the Duke of York's absence from the Windsor Castle procession and Order of the Garter service was a "family decision".He did join the Queen at the formal investiture of new members of the Order of the Garter - including Tony Blair and Charles' wife the Duchess of Cornwall - and at the lunch afterwards.But his alleged bid to return to Royal duties has apparently been met with resistance from the two direct heirs to the throne, with Her Majesty supposedly telling Andrew to keep out of sight "for his own good". The Queen also missed Royal Ascot for the first time during her reign and was replaced in Saturday's Royal procession by the Duke of Kent, Andrew's eldest daughter Princess Beatrice and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.

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Lorraine Kelly, 62, has not been very happy with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, 57, since he snubbed her on Good Morning Britain last month.The presenter has taken to Twitter to hit out at the politician for failing to keep his promise to ban hunters from importing trophies of their kills.More than 100 celebrities, including Dame Judi Dench and Ricky Gervais, have urged Mr Johnson to honour his promise to ban hunters from bringing home trophies of their kills.Signatories to this letter were made three years ago with the pledge to "end this barbaric practice".However, since 2019 hunters have imported more than 600 trophies from endangered animals including lions, elephants, giraffes and hippos.Promises to change the law have featured in four Queen's speeches, but there has still been no legislation.Lorraine inserted her opinion in response to Ban Trophy Hunting's Twitter post.It read: "7 years since #Cecil was shot. 3 years since the govt promised to ban trophies.

Lorraine Kelly says she is "frightened of losing herself" as she shares a candid health admission about her family. Lorraine spoke out in a new interview over her dementia fears.

ITV Lorraine viewers were treated to a nice surprise as Outlander superstar Sam Heughan appeared on the show to promote his latest drama.

Lorraine Kelly praised Sam Heughan for being an ambassador for Scotland through all of his projects.

ITV star Dr Hilary Jones looked worlds away from his usual professional self when he made his first TV debut on Lorraine back in the 1990s.The 68-year-old is now a well-known doctor who shares a wide range of medical advice to viewers across various morning ITV shows.However, the TV star’s showbiz career came from humble beginnings after he first joined the ITV team on GMTV back in May 1989 when he was just 35 years old.And it’s fair to say he looks almost un recognisable now after Lorraine Kelly shared a striking throwback clip of the doctor as he shared some of the main signs that could point to a meningitis diagnosis.In the throwback clip, the dad-of-five sports a full head of dark brown curly locks as he advises viewers on the outward signs of Meningitis with the equally youthful looking Eamonn Holmes.He chuckled: “There’s a picture of me as a much younger looking man here showing the tumbler test, yes that was years ago.” Lorraine couldn’t help but aww at the star’s younger self, as she gasped: “Oh, look at you - and there’s Eamonn!” It comes as the 62-year-old Scott welcomed Bucks Fizz star Jay Aston's daughter onto the show as she opened up about the side effects she is experiencing after she nearly died from the illness. Josie, 19, almost passed away earlier his year after she was diagnosed with the infection as her parents told her that she only had a 50% chance of survival.

Lorraine Kelly, 62, has spoken in a new interview about her fear of getting dementia, with the idea of "losing" herself frightening the presenter.She added that she believes we need a "frank conversation" about assisted death for people who suffer with the condition.Lorraine opened up in a recent interview about her fears in life and what she hopes to conquer.She was asked: "What other fears are you going to face up to?"Lorraine replied: "To be honest the thing that frightens me, I will be totally honest with you."The thing that frightens me is not so much getting ill as you can hopefully do things to help yourself a bit."I gratefully fear for things like losing myself to dementia."As my gran had it a bit, not too bad but I think seeing that."Seeing friends' loved ones lose themselves and slowly lose the person they love the most."She continued: "And that is what scares me about getting older but of course dementia can hit people that are younger."I don't want to lose anybody I love and that sort of bit by bit way and I certainly would not want that for myself", she said in an interview with The Mirror.Lorraine is very open about her health concerns or weight woes, with the presenter revealing earlier this year a realisation she had during the pandemic.She told Express.co.uk she was sleeping as little as four hours per night, calling her habits "awful".With her sleeping schedule changing, the presenter revealed she went from a size 10 to a size 14 in lockdown.Lorraine said: "I’ll tell you what, the thing it’s making me focus on more than anything is sleep."During the pandemic, I’ve not been sleeping as well as I might."When you see it written down [on your tracker] as, ‘Oh, you’ve had for hours,’ you realise it’s not

Lorraine Kelly has dished out a classy response to the Prime Minister after he seemingly forgot who she was.

Lorraine Kelly has opened up about embarking on a Weight Watchers as she tried to lose the lockdown pounds.

The TV personality transformed her lifestyle earlier this year and has now lost two stone and dropped two dress sizes. The presenter said she was eating more during lockdown, and drinking more wine.

Lorraine Kelly confessed she fooled fellow dieters in order to stay anonymous when she used the WW – formerly Weight Watchers – app to help her lose the pounds she gained over the lockdown period.In the last year the beloved ITV personality, 62, has completely transformed her lifestyle after she shed a whopping one and a half stone and an impressive two dress sizes. She admitted at the time that, like many UK residents, she was eating more and drinking more wine at home when the country was forced into a national lockdown following the global coronavirus pandemic.