Kate Garraway’s Life Stories (ITV) was built in her cheery image. Though Garraway started as a reporter, the Good Morning Britain star has spent most of her career in lifestyle TV rather than in hard-nosed journalism.
So it was perhaps inevitable that her Life Stories debut should be altogether fluffier and sweeter than was the case with Morgan, who has left ITV for a new morning gig with Rupert Murdoch’s forthcoming talkTV startup.
Then again, could even Piers Morgan have resisted a celebrity as charming as John Barnes? One of the greatest footballers of the Eighties has, in his later years, become a charismatic national treasure as well as a thoughtful and passionate commentator on racism.
But nobody’s perfect and there were one or two skeletons in his superstar closet that Garraway could have rattled had she been inclined.
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