It was the moment Kate Garraway had dreamt of for so long. After more than a year of unimaginable uncertainty and life-changing loss, the TV presenter was finally able to bring her husband, Derek Draper, home from hospital, where he had been critically ill after fighting Covid-19.
Pacing the floor as they waited impatiently at the family’s North London house were her children, Darcey, 15, and Billy, 11, who had only seen their father once – in hospital in December – since his admission to intensive care last March.
“I could see two little faces, Darcey and Billy, looking out of the window and they ran and opened the door,” said Kate, 53, in a moving interview last week with her Good Morning Britain ( GMB ) co-presenters, Ben Shephard…