KATE GARRAWAY: I'm No Longer Afraid To Seek Joy & Love After Losing My Husband
Great Company with Jamie Laing
Jampot
4.6 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Kate Garraway is a woman who has lived several lifetimes. There’s the broadcaster we all know: bright, curious, endlessly warm. And then there’s the Kate who has weathered unimaginable change, held a family together through crisis, and somehow emerged with her hope and positivity intact.
This episode isn’t a retelling of headlines - it’s the Kate we rarely hear: a woman learning how to breathe again after six years of being on high alert and re-discovering her joy.
We cover:
- Losing her husband and life after grief
- Kate's wild years in her 30s
- How she met her late husband Derek
- Growing up with low confidence
- Starting out in the TV industry
- Celebrity Traitors
Kate showed me that strength isn’t about being unbroken, it’s about allowing yourself to be broken and choosing to rebuild.
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Producer: Helen Burke
Assistant Producer: Issy Weeks-Hankins
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up in this episode of Great Company. |
| 0:02.8 | When Derek, your husband fell ill, did you know it was going to be as serious? |
| 0:07.7 | I was told it's live or die. |
| 0:10.5 | He got into the ambulance and said, you're definitely going to see me again. |
| 0:13.6 | I didn't know that actually the Derek in the form that got into the ambulance, I wouldn't see again. |
| 0:19.2 | Did you get to say everything you wanted to say? |
| 0:23.5 | Hi, I'm Kate Garraway, and I'm in great company. |
| 0:26.7 | Kate Garroway! |
| 0:30.2 | It's flabbergasted. |
| 0:34.0 | What were you like as a kid? |
| 0:35.3 | Did you have a rebellious period? |
| 0:36.5 | I think it was in my 30s. |
| 0:38.5 | Get out of here! |
| 0:40.6 | I started going to festivals and hanging out with musicians. |
| 0:43.6 | My parents managed to give me the idea that things would always be okay. |
| 0:47.3 | My children don't feel that. |
| 0:49.7 | You must stay at home. |
| 0:51.8 | COVID-19 can be characterised as a pandemic. |
| 0:55.3 | I knew it's bad because people were dying there hundreds of thousands. |
| 0:59.6 | He was very quickly into a coma. He just looked like he was really struggling to breathe. |
| 1:04.4 | And I said to him, I'm never going to give up. I will keep going until you go. |
| 1:09.2 | Your husband falling ill and then he passes away |
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