Kate Garraway admitted “I feel a bit odd” during a chat with Richard Arnold and Rob Rinder on Friday’s Good Morning Britain.
The mum-of-two made the admission as she explained she’d changed her thyroid medication and her co-star Richard’s hyper behaviour “wasn’t helping”.
Before the moment unfolded, Richard shared some Strictly news: “Strictly returns to BBC One this Saturday evening from 7.20pm and catch GMB on Monday for our chat with the stars backstage.”
Kate interrupted: “Can I just mention that I have changed my thyroid medication and everything is slightly surreal and you’re not helping.”
Shocked by Kate’s admission, Richard replied: “Right…we have worked together for 24 years, I have never helped, you have always got your fingers on the edge of the cliff.”
“Have you really changed your meds?” he asked as Kate went on: “I feel a bit odd, I confess that now.”
He had been taken to the Royal Free Hospital in Camden four times in a week by his worried parents, Linda Alushi and dad Kastriot Klosi. However, he sadly died.
Linda appeared on the ITV programme alongside actor Jason Watkins, who lost his daughter at the age of two from sepsis.
“The next day, he was not well – obviously we didn’t send him to nursery. He wasn’t eating, he wasn’t drinking, he wasn’t the Daniel we knew.”
She added: “He would stay all day in our arms. Something we’ve never seen before. We’d seen him with a virus before and his temperature would go down, and he’d start eating and drinking. This time, there was no improvement.”
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Speaking about his own experience, Jason, who stars in McDonald and Dodds, said: “That’s one of the painful things, thinking, ‘Did we do everything we could?’ It’s easy to blame yourself… because I was there the second time she was discharged.
“We are an imperfect family who have survived the worst thing that can happen to a parent. It’s indescribable, the sense of guilt, loss, the absence of your child, the light of your life is gone and you don’t know how you can go on.”
On Wednesday, Kate won the award for Best Authored Documentary at the National Television Awards for her documentary about her husband, the late Derek Draper.
Kate’s children, Billy and Darcey stood beside their mum on stage as she gave an emotional thank-you speech. Derek died earlier this year following complications from a four-year battle with Covid.