Kate Garraway has shared her reaction to seeing former Health Secretary Matt Hancock on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! after her husband's health battles.
The broadcaster, who has fronted documentaries detailing her husband Derek Draper's struggles after contracting Covid-19, spoke on behalf of those affected by the virus. The ITV presenter appeared on Good Morning Britain on Thursday alongside hosts Ben Shephard and Susanna Reid, reports the Mirror.
Following Kate’s own I’m A Celebrity stint in 2019, Susanna asked what Kate’s reaction would be if she had been in the camp this year when Hancock walked in. Kate started by saying: “I think instinctively, me personally, would want to talk to him and ask him questions about it and try to get to the bottom of how he thought about it.”
Kate’s husband Derek Draper, a former political adviser, is one of the UK's longest suffering Covid-19 patients after contracting the virus in March 2020. Derek only returned to the family home in April 2021, where he now receives round the clock care from Kate and a team of healthcare professionals.
Kate continued: “There’s a very visceral gut reaction to Matt Hancock as he’s there as a very famous face of the time that was miserable for the entire country and we’re still living with the consequences of.
“There will be people watching whose grief is still very, very raw from losing people. They won't see that rawness of grief and sadness in the way that Matt Hancock is behaving on screen, because he’s laughing and having fun and trying to get to know a new group of people.
“I think if they don’t see that, they are not going to feel healed in any way. I kind of wonder if that’s what Matt Hancock’s motive might be – to show people he does care. Not just heal his career, but heal a time people are still bleeding from.”
After Hancock entered the camp with Seann Walsh, Owen Warner said to Babatúndé Aléshé: “Do you have any strong views on the geezer?” Babatúndé replied: “It’s hard to kind of push your views aside, it really is, because of the many people whose lives have been affected. But, at the same time, we’ve got to be welcoming and we’ve got to treat people as humans obviously.”
I'm A Celebrity airs every night at 9pm on STV and STV Hub.
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