Good Morning Britain's Kate Garraway was supported by her co-hosts after a "serious" health update.
Today's edition of the ITV news programme was hosted by Charlotte Hawkins and Richard Madeley. Kate's husband, Derek Draper, fell critically ill after contracting coronavirus in March 2020 and the broadcaster has helped care for the former political lobbyist through his ongoing health battle.
Monday's hosts started this morning's episode by issuing a message of support to Kate after Derek's health took a downward turn last week. Charlotte said: "We just wanted to start with an update, didn't we, because you may have seen in the news over the weekend that Derek, Kate's husband, is sadly in a very serious condition at the moment."
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Richard added: "Now we just want to let Derek, and Kate, and of course the whole family know that we are all here, thinking of them. We know many of you are as well and all of us send them our very best wishes at what is a very difficult time, super difficult time."
Charlotte then signed off the message with: "Lots of love from all of us this morning." On an episode of Loose Women last month, Kate explained Derek had been readmitted to hospital.
She said: "He's actually back in the hospital at the moment, I haven't talked about this, but not the horrific drama fortunately, because there have been lots of, as we all experience, referrals and cancellations. He's gotten back in for something that he began last year, which he needed the second part of which will hopefully mean he has more movement, physical fractures.
"So it's a positive hospital thing." On the show, Kate shared her optimism that Derek will be home soon and gave an update on the emotional cost her husband's health battle has taken on the family.
She said: "It's not that you want to be a 'poor me' about it because on the one hand I feel incredibly fortunate because so many hundreds of 1000s of people, everyday people lose people. I talk in the book about grief and it took me a long time to admit that as a family we were grieving because I felt guilty because actual bereavement, so many are going through, that you feel that this is a lesser degree, but really, it is a kind of grief because you go through mini deaths when someone's very ill."
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