KATE GARRAWAY. DEREKS STORY. TUE 26 March - ITV 9pm

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This will be a real tear jerker

i watched the two previous programmes she and Derek did

this is the final year of Derek life and told in his words

Kate Garraway (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tagged/kate-garraway/) will front a new ITV programme documenting the last year of her late husband Derek Draper’s (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tagged/derek%20draper/) life: Kate Garraway: Derek’s Story.
The Good Morning Britain (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tagged/good-morning-britain/) star’s husband died in January (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/derek-draper-tributes-kate-garraway-husband-covid-123921217.html)
after his battle with COVID.

She previously made two programmes about his health struggles — Finding Derek and Caring For Derek — and will now share his final chapter which will air on ITV on 26 March.

The film starts in May 2023 and looks at the final year of Draper’s life, including both sweet family moments and an insight into his health battle.

But it also looks back and reflects on his life before he contracted COVID in 2020, including his career as a political adviser, his romance with TV star Garraway — who he has two children with — and how Draper’s illness changed their relationship while they maintained their close bond.

The film also highlights the challenges faced by those living with serious illness and disability and those who care for them and will feature contributions from Draper’s carer Jake.

The programme is set to air in just a few days, close to three months after Draper died at the age of 56.

It will be on ITV at 9pm on Tuesday 26 March.
Documentary was Derek Draper’s idea
Garraway has said that she hadn’t planned to make a third documentary but that the idea came from her husband.

Obviously when we started making this documentary early last year, we had no idea the events that would unfold that ultimately took Derek from us,” she said. “And in January 2024, after he had passed, I wondered if it was right that it should ever come to air.

"But I didn’t want to let those who have given us so much support over the last four years down, and the carers paid and unpaid who in their thousands of letters to me, feel Derek’s story has given them a voice. Also, I remember so vividly that the idea of making this third documentary at all came from Derek himself.”

She went on: “At the beginning of January 2023, he’d been released from a four month spell in hospital for sepsis and we were very positive about his recovery. Derek was determined to keep on getting better and improving.

One day, we were sitting together while I was caring for him and he suddenly, from nowhere, asked, ‘Are we making another documentary?’ I said, ‘Well I hadn’t really planned to. Were you thinking that you would like to?’ And he said firmly, 'Yes'."

The presenter said she told Draper it should be his story, in his voice, explaining: "Derek got very emotional at the idea, because his words and speech were so limited and there were so many things he wanted to say about the struggle we were all having as a family and he wanted to speak up about it."

When she asked Draper what his main message was, he replied: "Never give up fighting for what you believe in and for the people you love."
“We had to find a way of allowing Derek’s voice to be heard and while having to finish it without him has been so hard, I am delighted that the film is a tribute to Derek and his incredible spirit,” she added.

That's all you have to say to my reply? You’ve addressed none of my points?

Have you made up that her kids are at private school? Do you know that her homes have equity in them? Do you understand why a ‘celeb’ brings more attention to a cause than a non celeb? Those were my points.

And now, can you not understand why she and Derek took the chance of going to Mexico? Why they thought it was worth a try? How desperate they must have felt to do it?

I don’t believe or not believe any of the money stuff. Her excess of money or her debts are for her to deal with. What I do understand is doing everything you can to not have to sell your home whether it’s worth £100k or millions. If her bank are happy with whatever arrangement she has, it’s not for me to comment. I don’t see her comments on money as complaining. She’s not asking for donations, I wouldn’t donate if she did, she’s just telling her experience and that is bringing attention to carers and long covid.

All the carers I know are struggling financially and mentally. Coping often isn’t living, not with a reasonable quality of life.

She didn’t cry about her heating, she mentioned not having the heating on. It saved her some money, maybe only a couple of grand a year, but she obviously saw that as something she was willing to sacrifice. What’s wrong with that? If she’d have said she has the heating on all day, people would have said she could save money not having it on and by wearing another jumper.

Yes her kids are in private school.. google it.

Mexico? That was a ridiculous and expensive thing to do and he wasn’t able for it.

You believe she has 2 houses with no equity at all?

She is not asking for donations, people are willingly giving them due to her books and documentaries. Same thing i suppose.

Then there all the people they owe money to due to their THREE failed businesses .

They won’t get paid.

I also interpreted the comment about heating like this as well

I am very sorry for the awful thing that happened to him, but Derek Draper was really not a "staunch socialist" by any definition I understand. He was a New Labour made man who actually fucked up doing that, more than once.

I suspect that even without the cost of the care package there would have always been financial problems in their life. With at least 2 bankruptcies behind them they do have a history of financial mismanagement.

Your chosen interpretation is that she’s pleading poverty, I don’t see it that way at all if you listen to her comments. Talking about your experience isn’t pleading poverty. She obviously had access to cash or credit. According to her it sounds like credit. Of course that’s more privileged than many other carers but I can’t blame her for taking advantage of it to try to help her husband.

The Mexico treatments may have just gone on her debt bill. Or maybe family helped? That’s for her to manage. Sending him there doesn’t mean it’s paid for yet, she may owe someone somewhere for it, the clinic, the bank?

Kate is in favour of more help for carers so I don’t get why she seems to be the enemy.

The Mexico treatments may have just gone on her debt bill. Or maybe family helped? That’s for her to manage. Sending him there doesn’t mean it’s paid for yet, she may owe someone somewhere for it, the clinic, the bank

She owes a lot of people a lot of money so you are right there.

The only comment I found which doesn’t convinced me they’re at private school was,

Kate noted that her friends who had children in private schools had homeschooling that was “unbelievably brilliant from the get-go”, whereas other schools took “a while to sort that out”. Followed by her saying she’d failed her kids in lockdown regarding schooling. That made me think her kids aren’t in private school, I didn’t see anything about her kids being at private school, not that it matters, but I’m surprised if that information is on the internet. I’d try to keep my kids at the same school if their dad was dying/died. The last thing they need is more upheaval. I’d be surprised if Kate confirms which school her kids attend.

Mexico was her choice but they must have been cleared to fly.

I have no idea what equity she has in her houses, neither do you. It’s very possible she borrowed money against her homes.

No, her selling books and making documentaries is nothing like asking for documentaries. This shows how desperate you are to demonise her though. Utterly bonkers that one. 🤪

I have no idea who they owe money to. I do not know her financial status.

•asking for DONATIONS

I have no idea who they owe money to. I do not know her financial status

EVERY man and his dog knows her financial status 😂
I can’t pay the heating boohoooooo!

You have no real pints to make. This is the best you can manage. It’s pathetic.

Just told my partner and kids about you thinking selling books and making documentaries is the same thing as asking for donations. They’re laughing at the batshit craziness of that one. 🤣

Night. 👋

Sounds like you had a few “pints” yourself 😂

night night!

I have no idea who they owe money to. I do not know her financial status

Thick end of a million quid largely owed to us, the taxpayer. All written off

Same as you then

Nah, I don’t play on people’s emotions and exploit my husband's illness and then death to make money over and over again. THAT is a brass neck.

@TIASLC has made valid points throughout. Your comment comparing books and documentaries to donations was ridiculous. Your other posts were not much better. Now you are picking on a spelling mistake because that is all you have. The poster was right, you don’t have any real points to make.

She made people - like me for example - more aware of what carers go through and in her own words she is lucky she earns well and had a job she enjoys

She has grown a thick skin. She had to

And as I said previously she did what she thought was best for her family

We all do that

And selling to hello or ok mag / how many celebs do wedding spreads - what's the issue with that

She needs to bugger off
milked it whilst he was living , now getting more now he’s gone
like Gloria Hunniford

That’s all I have? I won’t play to ridiculous twee excuses why a rich woman with every privilege in the world is making numerous documentaries and writing grief books to make money whilst pretending to raise awareness. She is not doing it for the people, she is doing it for HERSELF so she can keep the life she is accustomed to. Thankfully most people are waking up and seeing her for what she is. But she is probably planning the next one … Life After Derek, then a prequel How I Met Derek and the one after that Stacey Solonsn Help clean my Gaff. Sorry my TWO gaffs!

If her income is as big as reported, she will have paid lots of tax over the years. It makes me laugh when people talk of “the taxpayer”. People earning money like Kate Garraway are “the taxpayer”. I’m not sure of the percentages but a lot of people fail to realise that they are net takers not net contributors when it comes to tax. Kate Garraway’s TV salary alone would mean she’ll have been a big net contributor over the years.

Funny how they owe thousands in tax from their 3 companies….

Its nothing to do with raising awareness. Awareness of what. How a person can own property worth £5.3m and still be so poor they can't afford heating. I'm afraid I am not aware of how that can be possible, its an outrage that this programme went out IMHO.