Kate Garraway has returned to present Good Morning Britain for the first time since husband Derek Draper was admitted to hospital more than three months ago
Draper, 53, was hospitalised with coronavirus in March and was placed in an induced coma. Garraway, also 53, revealed earlier this month that he recently regained consciousness for the first time, but stressed that his recovery is “not nearly in sight and very uncertain.”
Appearing on the show on Monday morning, Garraway jokingly asked her colleagues Ben Shephard and Laura Tobin not to be “too nice” to her as it would make her “emotional.”
“Just go back to being rude!” she said.
Shephard told his co-presenter “It’s lovely having you back, back to work. First day back in quite a while.”
He added “Nothing has gone wrong yet,” prompting Garraway to reveal that her car to the studio “didn’t show up” and that her computer started installing a two-hour update when she switched it on.
Garraway's husband Derek Draper was put in an induced coma in March (PA)
She went on to joke that she had “put on fake tan, put very long fake eyelashes on and [gone] blonder” ahead of her return to work.
Appearing on the programme as a guest last week, Garraway revealed that she was told six times that her husband would not survive.
“It is a very desperate situation, it's very very difficult,” she explained. “Of course there's fantastic hope he's still alive, the doctors do keep saying it's a miracle he's still alive.
“I was speaking to a doctor yesterday who said he's sick as anyone I've ever seen in 35 years of medicine, and some of those people who were as sick of him aren't here.
“Six times they said he's not going to make it, and obviously you couldn't visit.”
She added that Draper is “in a minimum state of consciousness” and “we have no real knowledge of what he can see and hear and feel.”
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV.
