# Kate Garraway
**Kate Garraway** (Kathryn Mary Garraway, born 1967) is a British television and radio presenter and journalist, best known as a main presenter of ITV's breakfast program [Good Morning Britain](https://www.edgepedia.org/good-morning-britain) since its launch in 2014 and as the host of a weekday mid-morning show on Smooth Radio.[1](https://www.tvnewsroom.co.uk/biography-images/kate-garraway-3679/) • [2](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kate-Garraway/265354316) She was appointed MBE in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting, journalism and charity.[3](https://www.speakersassociates.com/speaker/kate-garraway/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 1967[1](https://www.tvnewsroom.co.uk/biography-images/kate-garraway-3679/) |
| Current roles | Main presenter on Good Morning Britain since 2014; weekday mid-morning show on Smooth Radio since 2014, with 2.3 million listeners a week[2](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kate-Garraway/265354316) |
| Earlier programs | BBC News 24 launch team (1997), Sky News breakfast anchor (1998), GMTV from 2000, Daybreak[2](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kate-Garraway/265354316) • [4](https://biographs.org/kate-garraway) |
| Documentaries | Finding Derek, Caring for Derek and Kate Garraway: Derek's Story, each winner of the National Television Award for Best Authored Documentary[3](https://www.speakersassociates.com/speaker/kate-garraway/) |
| Books | The Power of Hope (2021) and The Strength of Love (2023), both Sunday Times bestsellers[3](https://www.speakersassociates.com/speaker/kate-garraway/) |
| Honors | MBE, 2022 New Year Honours; TRIC Special Award for her broadcasting career[3](https://www.speakersassociates.com/speaker/kate-garraway/) |
| Reality television | Fifth series of Strictly Come Dancing with Anton du Beke; fourth place on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2019[2](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kate-Garraway/265354316) • [5](https://www.smoothradio.com/radio/shows-presenters/kate-garraway/) |
## Early life and start in radio
Garraway grew up in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and attended Fitzharrys School before taking a degree in English and Politics at Bath university.[6](https://www.biogs.com/strictlycomedancing/garraway.html) • [7](https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/what-kate-garraway-did-next-6435706.html) After university she worked for a law firm in a job that involved writing and law, but preferred the writing, and decided to pursue journalism at a time when dedicated journalism courses were scarce.[7](https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/what-kate-garraway-did-next-6435706.html)
**Radio Oxford.** Keen to get into journalism, she offered to work for Radio Oxford at weekends for free. The editor David Campbell gave her a job as a traffic and travel reporter on the breakfast show, reading items such as road closures on the A34, and then sent her out with a tape recorder to gather local reports speculatively. After three months he gave her a proper journalist contract and supported her application to ITN's trainee journalist scheme.[8](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/feb/14/students.schools7)
## Television career
Garraway had become an Independent Television News trainee journalist by 1994, and a year later joined the south edition of ITV News Central as a production journalist, reporter and news presenter.[1](https://www.tvnewsroom.co.uk/biography-images/kate-garraway-3679/) • [2](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kate-Garraway/265354316) She presented the regional news program Meridian Tonight from 1995 to 1997, and that visibility led to a place on the launch team of the BBC's 24-hour rolling news channel, [BBC News](https://www.edgepedia.org/bbc-news) 24, in 1997.[6](https://www.biogs.com/strictlycomedancing/garraway.html) • [2](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kate-Garraway/265354316) She has described the launch as one of the highlights of her career; among the first questions she was asked to tackle on air was whether peace in the Middle East was possible.[7](https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/what-kate-garraway-did-next-6435706.html)
In 1998 she joined [Sky News](https://www.edgepedia.org/sky-news) as a main anchor on its breakfast show, working on stories including the [Good Friday Agreement](https://www.edgepedia.org/good-friday-agreement) and the Kosovo bombings.[5](https://www.smoothradio.com/radio/shows-presenters/kate-garraway/) • [7](https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/what-kate-garraway-did-next-6435706.html) In September 2000 she joined GMTV as a presenter, hosting The News Hour and GMTV Today, and stayed with the breakfast franchise through its rebrand as Daybreak, where she served as Entertainment Editor.[4](https://biographs.org/kate-garraway) • [6](https://www.biogs.com/strictlycomedancing/garraway.html) • [7](https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/what-kate-garraway-did-next-6435706.html) During her GMTV and Daybreak years she interviewed entertainment figures including [Tom Cruise](https://www.edgepedia.org/tom-cruise), Johnny Depp, Justin Timberlake, Nicole Kidman, and Julia Roberts.[5](https://www.smoothradio.com/radio/shows-presenters/kate-garraway/)
**Good Morning Britain.** When Daybreak was replaced by Good Morning Britain in April 2014, Garraway joined as one of the main hosts, and she has remained a main presenter since the program launched.[2](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kate-Garraway/265354316) • [3](https://www.speakersassociates.com/speaker/kate-garraway/) Her long on-screen partnership with [Ben Shephard](https://www.edgepedia.org/ben-shephard), who left GMB in 2024 to join This Morning, went back nearly 20 years; Shephard called her his "on-screen wife" and praised how she had handled the years of her husband's illness.[9](https://www.itv.com/presscentre/media-releases/mornings-new-presenters) From January 2026, amid ITV budget cuts to daytime television, she took on the additional role of presenting the London news updates during GMB alongside her existing duties.[10](https://www.womanandhome.com/life/news-entertainment/kate-garraway-new-role-good-morning-britain/)
## Radio and other television
Garraway joined Smooth Radio in 2014 as part of the relaunch of the station and presents the weekday mid-morning program from 10am to 1pm, which draws 2.3 million listeners a week.[2](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kate-Garraway/265354316) • [5](https://www.smoothradio.com/radio/shows-presenters/kate-garraway/)
Her other television work includes the fifth series of [Strictly Come Dancing](https://www.edgepedia.org/strictly-come-dancing), in which she was partnered with the professional dancer Anton du Beke, and the 2019 series of I'm a [Celebrity](https://www.edgepedia.org/celebrity)... Get Me Out of Here!, in which she finished fourth.[2](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kate-Garraway/265354316) • [5](https://www.smoothradio.com/radio/shows-presenters/kate-garraway/) In 2021 she took over as host of ITV's long-running interview series Life Stories, succeeding [Piers Morgan](https://www.edgepedia.org/piers-morgan) after more than 100 shows; her first run was three hour-long episodes, each devoted to a different celebrity, produced by MultiStory Media.[3](https://www.speakersassociates.com/speaker/kate-garraway/) • [11](https://www.itv.com/presscentre/sites/default/files/itv_christmas_and_winter_brochure_2021-22.pdf)
## Documentaries and books about Derek Draper
Garraway married [Derek Draper](https://www.edgepedia.org/derek-draper), a former political adviser, on 10 September 2005 in Camden, London.[1](https://www.tvnewsroom.co.uk/biography-images/kate-garraway-3679/) After Draper contracted Covid-19 and became one of the UK's most seriously affected long Covid patients, spending time in a medically induced coma and requiring constant care, Garraway made three authored documentaries for ITV: Finding Derek, Caring for Derek and Kate Garraway: Derek's Story. Each won the National Television Award for Best Authored Documentary, and the series also earned her a TRIC Special Award for her broadcasting career.[3](https://www.speakersassociates.com/speaker/kate-garraway/) • [12](https://theaibs.tv/AIBs-2022/Gala-evening/The-AIBs-22-winners-book.pdf) Caring for Derek was made to show, in the words of the AIB awards citation, the raw reality of life post-Covid and the hurdles of navigating the British care system.[12](https://theaibs.tv/AIBs-2022/Gala-evening/The-AIBs-22-winners-book.pdf) Draper died in January 2024, almost four years after first contracting the virus.[13](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search?_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_objectiveId=A16255750&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_mvcRenderCommandName=%2Ffull-print&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_organisationNumber=3979623&p_p_cacheability=cacheLevelPage&p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=2&p_p_mode=view&p_p_resource_id=%2Faccounts-resource&p_p_state=maximized) • [14](https://www.jla.co.uk/presenters/kate-garraway/)
Her two memoirs, The Power of Hope (2021), which recounts the impact of Covid-19 on her family, and The Strength of Love (2023), about trauma and recovery, were both Sunday Times bestsellers and made her a prominent public voice on caring, resilience and long-term illness in the workplace.[3](https://www.speakersassociates.com/speaker/kate-garraway/) • [14](https://www.jla.co.uk/presenters/kate-garraway/)
## Recognition
Garraway was appointed a Member of the [Order of the British Empire](https://www.edgepedia.org/order-of-the-british-empire) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting, journalism and charity.[3](https://www.speakersassociates.com/speaker/kate-garraway/) She has been nominated in the [Royal Television Society](https://www.edgepedia.org/royal-television-society)'s Television Journalist awards for her work on Good Morning Britain.[15](https://rts.org.uk/sites/default/files/imce/press_release_rts_tvj_nominations_5.pdf)
## References
1. [Kate Garraway, TV Newsroom biography](https://www.tvnewsroom.co.uk/biography-images/kate-garraway-3679/)
2. [Kate Garraway, Official Publisher Page, Simon & Schuster](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kate-Garraway/265354316)
3. [Kate Garraway, Broadcast Journalist & Author, Speakers Associates](https://www.speakersassociates.com/speaker/kate-garraway/)
4. [Kate Garraway biography, Biographs.org](https://biographs.org/kate-garraway)
5. [Kate Garraway, Smooth Radio shows and presenters](https://www.smoothradio.com/radio/shows-presenters/kate-garraway/)
6. [Kate Garraway's Biography, Biogs.com](https://www.biogs.com/strictlycomedancing/garraway.html)
7. [What Kate Garraway did next, London Evening Standard (5 April 2012)](https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/what-kate-garraway-did-next-6435706.html)
8. [My first boss: Kate Garraway, The Guardian (14 February 2004)](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/feb/14/students.schools7)
9. [This Morning's New Presenters, ITV Press Centre](https://www.itv.com/presscentre/media-releases/mornings-new-presenters)
10. [Kate Garraway has a new role at Good Morning Britain amid ITV budget cuts, Woman & Home](https://www.womanandhome.com/life/news-entertainment/kate-garraway-new-role-good-morning-britain/)
11. [ITV Christmas and Winter Brochure 2021-22, Press Centre](https://www.itv.com/presscentre/sites/default/files/itv_christmas_and_winter_brochure_2021-22.pdf)
12. [The AIBs 2022 Winners Book, Association for International Broadcasting](https://theaibs.tv/AIBs-2022/Gala-evening/The-AIBs-22-winners-book.pdf)
13. [Charity Commission annual report referencing Derek Draper's death in January 2024](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search?_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_objectiveId=A16255750&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_mvcRenderCommandName=%2Ffull-print&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_organisationNumber=3979623&p_p_cacheability=cacheLevelPage&p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=2&p_p_mode=view&p_p_resource_id=%2Faccounts-resource&p_p_state=maximized)
14. [Book Kate Garraway, JLA Speakers](https://www.jla.co.uk/presenters/kate-garraway/)
15. [RTS Television Journalist nominations press release](https://rts.org.uk/sites/default/files/imce/press_release_rts_tvj_nominations_5.pdf)
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