Kate Garraway's husband Derek Draper faces a "slow and uncertain path" to recovery after coming out of a coma.
The Mirror told yesterday how GMB presenter Kate, 53, had some promising news about her husband and a breakthrough in his condition.
He has been in intensive care in hospital since the end of March and was put into an induced coma by doctors on April 5.
A statement read out from Kate's representatives also played down how much Derek had improved saying some headlines gave “some level of optimism that might not yet be justified”.
They added: “We hope, as does Kate, that there will be more evidence of a recovery.
“But it will be a very slow and uncertain path.”
Derek was described as now being in a “minimum state of consciousness” as part of a new interview Kate gave to Hello! Magazine, showing signs he has emerged from the deep coma he was in.
She revealed: “We're keeping positive and doing everything we can to bring him round. The children and I communicate with him every day on FaceTime,while a nurse holds his iPad.
“I really believe he can hear. When medical staff say: 'Good morning, Derek,' he sometimes opens his eyes. We and the doctors are doing everything we can so that he can start to recover.”
Positive Kate, at home in London with Darcey, 14, and William, 10, is also preparing to return to work on Good Morning Britain and Smooth radio in order to create a sense of calm routine in her family's life as it is not known how long it will take for Derek to recover.
She added: “The doctors have warned that his condition could persist for years so I have to get on with life whilst we are waiting for him to get better.
"Billy starts secondary school in September, but Derek's doctors say he won't be out of hospital by then.
“My priority is to make the children feel safe, not to let them see me feeling vulnerable in the world where Derek was my rock.”
Meanwhile TV host and Kate's GMB colleague Piers Morgan has warned that Derek “isn't out of the woods yet.”
Piers told viewers: “We're going to talk to Kate on Wednesday before we go off for the summer.
"She's going to have something more to say about this but it's certainly premature at the moment to think that Derek isn't in any way out of the woods, sadly, on this and he remains in a very serious critical condition."
