To millions of viewers, it looked like just another morning with Kate Garraway presenting Good Morning Britain, chatting to guests with her typical warmth and humour.
Some may have noticed her usual smile seemed slightly forced, that some raw emotion lay just under the surface, even a hint of exhaustion.
If they did nobody could blame Kate, because behind the immaculate make-up and polished performance she was reeling from one of the worst nights of her life.
Just hours earlier Derek Draper, her beloved husband of 16 years who had spent months in intensive care battling the effects of coronavirus, had told her he feared he couldn’t go on.
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