Can it really be 22 years since Ben Shephard first appeared on our TV screens? He started out in 1998 hosting The Bigger Breakfast with Dermot O’Leary and Melanie Sykes, and is now the chipper ying to Piers Morgan’s waspish yang on Good Morning Britain.
Lockdown restrictions have meant big changes at work for Ben, 44, who has learnt to wield his own make-up brush.The pandemic has touched him personally with Derek Draper, husband of GMB colleague Kate Garraway, in hospital with coronavirus since April. “Kate’s been phenomenal, she’s an incredible person,” Ben says of his close friend.
Concerned viewers recently pointed out how tired Ben himself looked on screen but he pointed out, “Well, I am! You go on [TV] first thing in the morning,.
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