Kate Garraway is a British television and radio presenter and journalist. She began working in television in 1994, when she joined the south edition of ITV News Central as a production journalist, reporter and news presenter.
Kate has worked on ITV News Meridian, the launch of the BBC 24-hour News Channel in 1997, Sunrise on Sky News, GMTV and Daybreak, which in 2014 was replaced by Good Morning Britain with Kate joining as one of the main hosts. The same year, Kate joined Smooth Radio as part of the relaunch of the station. She presents the weekday mid-morning programme, with 2.3 million listeners tuning in to her show each week. Kate appeared in the fifth series of Strictly Come Dancing with professional partner Anton du Beke. She came fourth in 2019’s I’m a Celebrity …Get Me Out of Here!
In 2021 and 2022, Kate won consecutive National Television Awards for the documentaries ‘Finding Derek’ and ‘Caring For Derek’. Both films were critically acclaimed and ‘Finding Derek’ achieved the highest ratings for a factual programme on ITV for 16 years.
In 2021, Kate’s book The Power of Hope was published and reached the summit of The Sunday Times best-seller list. Her next book, The Strength of Love, was published in September 2023 and went straight into the Top Ten.
In 2022, Kate began presenting ITV’s prime-time talk show ‘Kate Garraway’s Life Stories’ where she interviews some of the biggest names in the entertainment world. Kate can be found weekly on ITV’s Good Morning Britain and daily on her radio show with Smooth Radio.
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