Kate Garraway shares ‘visceral reaction’ to Matt Hancock on I’m A Celebrity amid husband's health battle

10.11.2022 - 23:33 / dailyrecord.co.uk

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