Star Facts
- Kate plays the clarinet
- She supports Gillingham Football Club
- Kate is 5’ 3” tall
- At age 43, Kate posed topless for charity
Kathryn Mary Garraway Quotes
I'd be sorry only to do hard news, just as I'd be sorry only to do the fluffy bits
Biography:
Reigning queen of breakfast telly, Kate was born in Abingdon and studied for a degree in English and History at Bath Spa University. After graduating she became a trainee at ITN in 1994 and joined BBC Radio Oxford. She landed her first job presenting the news on ITV’s local Central News in 2005.
Kate was poached by the BBC and was chosen to join the presenting team of their new BBC News 24 channel in 1997. She made her first appearance on breakfast TV the following year hosting Sky’s Sunrise. In 2000 she joined fellow early morning blondes Penny Smith and Fiona Phillips in co-presenting the ITV breakfast show GMTV, and took the top job from Fiona when she resigned in 2008.
As well as her GMTV sofa-sitting duties, Kate lasted seven weeks on the fifth series of Strictly Come Dancing, has appeared on just about every panel show under the sun, and has written columns for Now and New magazines as well as the Observer newspaper. Kate is also the Friday presenter of Lorraine on ITV and is one of the new hosts of GMTV’s replacement Daybreak.
Kate has been married twice, first to her former boss and ITV Central producer Iam Rumsey, from 1998 to 2002, and then to Peter Mandelson’s political aide Derek Draper since 2005. The couple have two children, Darcey Mary and William.