Good Morning Britain host Adil Ray, who is standing in for Piers Morgan, has revealed he will be spending Christmas alone in London.
He travelled down from Birmingham to present the show, and has been staying in a hotel.
But since he arrived, Prime Minister Boris Johnson put most of the South East and London into Tier 4, meaning people should not travel out and households cannot mingle.
This means Adil will no longer be able to leave to visit his family on Christmas Day, he explained to co host Charlotte Hawkins.
He said: "I'm from Birmingham, which is Tier 3, and I came down for work - which you're allowed to do - in Tier 4… On the weekend I came down it was announced it was Tier 4.
"Then on Monday, local authorities - not the national government - have now offered guidance that if you are now coming into places from Tier 4 then you must self-isolate for ten days.
"For people who were going up, presumably to see their families, it's probably not so difficult because they're just going to have to spend longer with their families.
"But for someone like me, and I'm not looking for any sympathy, I have to just get on with it. I live on my own and I thought I'd come down for a couple of days work, go back and see my brother in Birmingham with my nephews and spend Christmas Day with him."
Adil continued: "I have Robin, my dog, and I can't even take him for a dog walk so I will have to ask a friend round the corner if she doesn't mind coming every day and taking him for a walk or I won't be able to have Robin either."
But he insisted he did not want sympathy, and said: "These are very small problems - there are people up and down the country with all sorts of issues and some more serious than mine."
*Good Morning Britain airs weekdays on ITV at 6am
