Kate Garraway has revealed how a disastrous power cut nearly derailed Tuesday’s episode of Good Morning Britain.
The presenter, 53, told viewers how the team had suffered “all sorts of dramas” shortly before the ITV breakfast programme went on air this morning.
She explained how the “massive” power outage nearly left them without lights or air conditioning and without the ability to contact guests remotely.
“We had a massive power cut at Good Morning Britain, it's been all sorts of dramas,” Garraway, who along with colleague Ben Shephard is currently standing in for Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid, said.
The team demonstrated what GMB would look like without any lights (ITV / Good Morning Britain)
“They couldn't use any printers to print us the briefs to brief us on the stories," Kate explained.
"They had no lights, the air conditioning went off, the server which is the thing that brings the show to you and allows us at the moment to speak to our guests because they are not allowed into the studio."
She then joked that the director was “taking the mick at [her] technical explanations” as the lights then flickered off in the studio in demonstration of what had happened earlier.
"The air conditioning was off so everything was overheating,” she continued, adding: “And worst of all, Ben, our editor overnight, said ‘We don’t think the hairdryers are going to work!’”
Garraway, whose husband Derek Draper remains in hospital after becoming critically ill with coronavirus in March, has had an especially difficult few days after her car tyre burst when she was driving along the motorway with her children at the weekend.
“I’d just like to put a message out - I’m at my limit. I am at my absolute limit now,” she told Shephard during Monday’s edition of Good Morning Britain.
