Kate Garraway looks flustered as she races between jobs on the back of a motorcycle… after 4.5 million tune in to watch documentary Finding Derek
Kate Garraway looked flustered on Monday as she prepared for her latest shift at Global radio studios after racing across London on the back of a motorcycle.
The Good Morning Britain presenter greeted onlookers as she made her way inside the Leicester Square studio ahead of her popular mid-morning Smooth radio show.
Sporting a camel coat over a breezy lilac patterned dress, Kate, 53, looked typically stylish while climbing from the rear of her taxi motorbike.
Here she is: Kate Garraway looked flustered on Monday as she prepared for her latest shift at Global radio studios after racing across London on the back of a motorcycle
In accordance with current health and safety guidelines the presenter covered her mouth and nose with a protective covering while entering her place of work.
More than 4.5 million viewers tuned in to watch Kate Garraway: Finding Derek, a documentary about her husband Derek’s Covid battle on Tuesday night, making it ITV’s most watched in years.
It won the 9pm slot with an average of 4.5 million viewers, making it ITV’s biggest factual overnight audience in the Tuesday 9pm slot in at least a decade.
Busy: Kate was hot-footing it between Good Morning Britain and her mid-morning presenting slot on Smooth radio
Looking good: Sporting a camel coat over a breezy lilac patterned dress, Kate, 53, looked typically stylish
Upbeat: Despite her busy schedule the presenter appeared to be in typically high spirits
And the show was also the channel’s biggest factual overnight audience across all days in the 9pm slot since Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace back in June.
Finding Derek easily beat its closest competitor MasterChef, which earned just 3.3 million viewers on BBC One.
Kate filmed every step of Derek’s battle with Covid following his hospitalisation with the respiratory illness in March 2020 with the fly-on-the-wall programme.
Success: More than 4.5 million viewers tuned in to watch Kate Garraway: Finding Derek, a documentary about her husband Derek’s Covid battle on Tuesday night
After watching the emotional hour-long documentary, many viewers and friends of the star took to social media to share their admiration for Kate and send their well wishes to Derek, also 53.
On Thursday Kate said she’d been ‘overwhelmed’ by viewers’ positive reaction as she returned to Good Morning Britain for the first time since Finding Derek had aired.
She said: ‘It’s been absolutely overwhelming in a really wonderful way.
Tough to watch: The programme documented her husband’s 12 months in intensive care battling coronavirus and its devastating after-effects
‘We spoke on Tuesday morning about how it was quite a difficult decision to think about filming it, but you hoped it would bring some comfort to some people or perhaps shine a light on a situation that… or for a group of people who might be suffering away in a way that hasn’t been focused on.
‘I’ve had so many comments from people. The reaction has been extraordinary. I’ve had so many messages from people talking not just about COVID, but about experiences in their own life, where some of the things we touched on have impacted.
‘Some people want to get in touch with me directly because it’s quite personal. I do have an email address actually if people want to get in touch directly, because I do understand they don’t want to put things on social media.’