Kate Garraway and her husband Derek Draper's devastating Covid-19 battle had a huge impact throughout ITV. The Good Morning Britain presenter's close friend Lorraine Kelly says what the pair have been going through rocked the whole team.
Kate's seriously ill husband was hospitalised in March 2020 after contracting deadly coronavirus and put into a medically induced coma.
He returned home nearly a year later - but now faces a long road ahead on the path to recovery. Lorraine, 61, has been there to help her friend on every step of the way.
She told MailOnline that Derek's illness 'profoundly' affected the entire morning team at ITV as they worried for their colleague. "It hit us all really hard when Kate's husband got Covid - he got it
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