Kate Garraway has admitted this Christmas will be difficult as she adjusts to the "new normal".
The festive period for the 54-year-old broadcaste r is set to look a lot different to last year after her husband Derek Draper returned home from hospital to continue his recovery from long-covid - as The Daily Star reports.
Derek still needs full time care and Kate said she is grateful to be able to spend Christmas with her husband and their 15-year-old daughter, Darcey and 12-year-old son, Billy.
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She told Woman's Own magazine: "This year, we have got him home - and fingers crossed we can keep him home.
"Of course, he's not going to be putting on his Santa costume, going out with Darcey for a father-and-daughter Christmas shop or the same with Billy."
"None of those things are on the horizon at the moment so it's adjusting to a new normal but also grateful he's here at all which we didn't have at all last year and feared would never happen."
Kate revealed the dream for the festive period would be to take Derek back to visit his family in Chorley.
She added : "The dream would be to get Derek to Chorley. At the moment, moving him is a big problem: it's exhausting for him.
"If not, maybe the Drapers could come to us for a big gathering, covid permitting. And certainly I'll be seeing the Garraways but my oven is broken so I'm not sure anyone wants to come to me."
Last year, Kate's Christmas faced further disruption when her house was flooded over the festive period.
She shared on social media : “Well here we are folks – #newyearseve – the last day of a year few will be sorry to see the back of.
"Have been quiet for a while – getting through Christmas has been a challenge hasn’t it with all the emotions it stirs in our strange world & nowhere really to put them – except in hope.
"And there is still so much real hope out there. Not just in the extraordinary health care workers & researchers who definitely hold a bright light for the future. But in all the little kindnesses.
“We had a calamitous few days in the run up to Christmas – but we got through thanks to some wonderful people.
"The guys from @bondconstruction who literally got on their hands & knees with me to bucket out water after we had 2 pipe leaks that flooded our home.”
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