Good Morning Britain presenter Adil Ray reveals he and Kate Garraway have bonded through grief after the passing of her husband.
Good Morning Britain presenter Adil Ray has opened up about his relationship with his new TV wife Kate Garraway as he admitted the pair have bonded over their grief.
Adil, who first joined the ITV breakfast show in 2019, has become a more regular panelist since Piers Morgan left in 2021 and Ben Shephard’s departure more recently.
And now that he and Kate are co-hosting together more often, the presenter spoke candidly about how the pair have bonded by helping each other through difficult times.
It has been an extremely difficult year for Kate after her husband Derek Draper died in January almost four years after he was struck down by Covid and suffered one of the worst affected cases of the virus in the UK.
Meanwhile Kate has been off air for the past fortnight
Meanwhile Kate has been off air for the past fortnight after her father Gordon suffered a suspected stroke and heart attack last month.
Good Morning Britain presenter Adil Ray has revealed he and Kate Garraway have bonded through grief after the passing of her husband Derek Draper back in January
Adil, who first joined the ITV breakfast show in 2019, has become a more regular panelist since Piers Morgan left in 2021 and Ben Shephard’s departure more recently, therefore he and Kate are co-hosting together more often
And Adil has also experienced his own share of personal issues after he lost his beloved mother Nargis to pancreatic cancer just a few months before Derek first became ill.
His mother’s symptoms were spotted late
His mother’s symptoms were spotted late as she they were disguised by her Parkinson’s disease which she also suffered from.
Opening up about his grief Adil told The Mirror: ‘When my mum died, I was working with Kate at the time. She was so supportive.
‘[But] One of the benefits of doing more shows together is you get to know more because you see her on a regular basis. You realise how much she’s got going on.
‘It’s just incredible. She’s a mother and a father at the moment. It’s not easy.
And she’s grieving, we share a lot in that.’
Adil joked that he was delighted when Ben made the move to This Morning so that he could spend more time on GMB working with Kate.
Nargis was 73 when she passed away from the cancer, nine years after she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s.
Adil explained that due to her Parkinson’s symptoms doctors weren’t sure what was wrong with her, but further tests revealed she had stage four pancreatic cancer.
