Kate Garraway has shared her thoughts on finding love again after the death of her husband Derek Draper.
Derek sadly died last year after a four-year battle with Covid.
Almost two years after his death, the 58-year-old TV presenter has opened up about dating in the future.
Kate told the Sun: “I don’t feel as if I can. It’s a weird one, because I wouldn’t like to think I’d spend the rest of my life without love, but also it feels preposterous at the moment to think of being with anyone else.
“What Derek and I loved was our home life and just pottering around, and we had 21 years of that, so mentally I am still in that zone.
“However, I do realise that, when the time is right, I am not going to meet someone in my living room, so I’m going to have to think about the future at some point.”
In August, Kate faced a financial blow, after it was revealed that her media company is almost £300,000 in the red.
This comes after the TV personality was left in £800,000 debt due to caring for her late husband – forcing her to sell her second home to pay off the debts.
Her media company, which she set up in 2021 to handle her media earnings has reported losses of £288,122 in 2024.
The accounts filed to Companies House show its earnings have fallen significantly over the past two years – reporting £165,011 in losses in 2023 and a surplus of £36,888 in 2022.
The company – which Kate directs by herself – is listed as being in the business of “radio broadcasting, television programming and broadcasting activities and management consultancy activities other than financial management.”
This follows a series of financial blows for the TV star, after it was revealed that Derek’s psychotherapy firm Astra Aspera Ltd went bankrupt, owing hundreds of thousands to creditors and a significant amount to HMRC.
The most recent report for Astra Aspera Ltd indicates that Kate has been attempting to pay off some of her debt - and HMRC have dramatically reduced their tax demand.
There was previously an outstanding £139,849 overdraft on the directors' loan account, but the liquidator, Greenfield Recovery, hired solicitors, The Wilkes Partnership, “to assist in the recovery… and the sum of £21,000 has been received in this report period.”
The latest liquidator’s report suggests HMRC submitted a new preferential claim of £288,054.
This is a two thirds reduction of the previous submission of £716,822 – the reason for which is unknown.
Kate faces other claims of £196,548 from four other firms, including a £50,000 bank loan.
Other companies jointly controlled by Kate and Derek were wound up by creditors.
Fulfill Media Ltd had debts of £922,807, which included £88,486 owed to HMRC, £90,882 to trade creditors, and £462,808 in 'third party loans’.
Kate liquidated Countrymouse Media Ltd, after owing £189,121, which included £98,944 in taxes and £48,000 on an overdrawn directors loan account.
Derek and Kate were both personally owed £24k each by the business.
