TV presenter Kate Garraway will return to Good Morning Britain on Wednesday.
Piers Morgan confirmed on the ITV breakfast show this morning that his colleague will join him and Susanna Reid on the programme later this week.
The news came as Kate, 53, asked Piers and Susanna to issue clarification on her husband’s health on Monday after it was revealed at the weekend that he had come out of his induced coma.
Kate said that her husband Derek has opened his eyes and started to regain consciousness after doctors took him out of his induced coma, but he is still in intensive care.
Piers told ITV viewers: “A few papers doing coverage on our colleague and friend Kate Garraway today and the situation involving her husband Derek.
Kate Garraway will return to Good Morning Britain on Wednesday (Image: ITV)
“And it’s probably not quite as positive a story as the papers perhaps believe and so we’ve got a little clarification from Kate’s representatives.”
It read: “These headlines make some level of optimism that might not yet be justified. We hope, as does Kate, that there will be more evidence of a recovery.
“But it will be a very slow and uncertain path.”
Piers continued to say that viewers would be able to hear more from Kate when she joined them later on Wednesday.
The TV presenter will give an update on her husband’s Derek’s health on GMB later this week (Image: Mirrorpix)
He explained: “We’re going to talk to Kate on Wednesday before we go off for the summer.
“She’s going to have something more to say about this but it’s certainly premature at the moment to think that Derek isn’t in any way out of the woods, sadly, on this and he remains in a very serious critical condition.”
Susanna, 49, added: “And we send them our very, very best, obviously.”
It comes after Kate told Hello! magazine over the weekend: “They’ve told me that I need to go back to work and create a routine in our lives again.
Kate will join Piers and Susanna on Good Morning Britain before they head off on their summer break
“The children and Derek are all I’ve thought about and they’re the most important people in my life, but I must create structure and normality for the children, to clean the bath, put the plates in the dishwasher, and tidy the house.
“I also need to get back to work so that I can provide for the children and we can do things together, to make them feel that the light hasn’t gone out of their lives, that there’s hope for the future.”
She added: “I have been living at the end of the phone 24/7, waiting for news of Derek.
“But the doctors have warned that his condition could persist for years so I have to get on with life whilst we are waiting for him to get better.
“Billy starts secondary school in September, but Derek’s doctors say he won’t be out of hospital by then.
“My priority is to make the children feel safe, not to let them see me feeling vulnerable in the world where Derek was my rock.”
Kate also said she and their children Darcey and Billy talk to Derek every day over FaceTime as a nurse holds the iPad up to him.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays on ITV at 6am
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
