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.

Nah, this isn’t horrible posts about another woman, they are true and factual comments about another woman’s ACTIONS to make as much money as she possibly can off her husband’s death. It’s about morals, exploitation and pure and utter greediness.

Thanks for the thread OP, although it’s a shame how it’s gone. I didn’t know this was on tonight but I’ll watch it now I know. It’s a very sad situation and she gets to choose how she navigates this. People’s reactions seem OTT, he wasn’t their husband or children’s father and they’re not in her shoes. Their opinions are completely worthless and won’t change anything, I’m not sure what they’re hoping to achieve.

'Their opinions are completely worthless and won’t change anything'

Of course it won't change anything however once you write books and make programmes (is this the third??) Then you invite opinions. Worthless to you and the Garraways perhaps but we are allowed to express them nonetheless.

As I said previously many of us will have been in the same boat caring wise snd vulnerable people deserve privacy amd dignity that is why her consantly sharing everything jars.

Tell the story once, ok if you must even with his so called consent, but not repeatedly.

You can express them but they are still are worthless and irrelevant.

If she wants to tell the story repeatedly, she doesn’t need your permission.

I can't be associated with a thread that vindicates Katie Hopkins, I just can't.
That wouldn't be right.

If the documentary brings the family and the kids more buttress financially, if it brings Kate any sense of purpose or closure, if it puts the spotlight back onto Long Covid (which is trivialised like myalgic encephalomyelitis) then fair enough.

Not my circus, not my monkeys. I can switch off if I think the ends don't justify the means.

I also don't care if they do do One Year On, What Kate Did, What Kate Did Next.
Although she will have previously been mourning the man she knew, the insight into when grief hits and the five stages of grief, may well be helpful to any of us especially when one of the reasons you kept going is gone.

I saw this programme being advertised. Along with how hard up she is and is in lots of debt. She lives in a £4m house. It's a shame he died at a relatively young age but this poverty pleading. I don't understand that at all.

I don’t know why I should suddenly like her when I didn’t like her before this. That’s how I feel

Nobody is talking about permission, don’t be so ridiculous! People are entitled to their opinion that she is milking this for all that it is worth for monetary reasons. Again and again and again. I am glad people are waking up and saying enough is enough.
People are also entitled to be niave, deluded and totally taken in that this is done out of love for her husband, her awful and crippling debt and to shine a light on long Covid.
Both these views are worthless and irrelevant to Kate who will be rubbing her hands in glee from her ivory tower while the minions lap it u and snot into their hankies at how hard she has it.
Meanwhile the thousands of carers who just have to get by while looking after their ill relatives while on the breadline go about their day with no help from anyone.

I’m amazed at posters trivialising the debts! Not just to the Revenue, although since taxation funds the NHS from which they certainly benefitted, that is not unimportant.

When Derek Draper’s business declared bankruptcy ( before Covid, so nothing to do with being unwell) he owed considerable sums of money to suppliers. So that is money to which other people were entitled which they don’t have. (and that included things like office supplies and cleaning services, so not a victimless debt).

I’m quite surprised that they have managed to ring fence that debt , and that the IRS have not started legal proceedings to get our money, but I suppose that is a side effect of the publicity.

I don’t hold either of those views. I’m of the opinion that she can do whatever she likes and whatever she feels necessary.

Shes brought attention to the state of the care system and long covid, whether thats for her own personal interest or to help others, who knows and I don’t care.

She’s working for her money, she’s not begging on go fund me. People can choose not to watch. I don’t see the problem. It’s like people begrudge that she might come through it and keep her home or her kids at private school. Why do you care, you’re not paying for it.

Welcome @RIPMullet

Glad you now know it's on

And agree with everything you say @RIPMullet

Been thinking about posting this thread here. Now i feel i have to. Its a thread from 2019 warning about how the changes to Pension Credit would affect carers amongst other things. Not as much support when people arent famous.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/money-matters/3479693-Changes-to-Pension-Credit

Nah, she’s not working for her money making this drivel. She’s literally selling a story of a man who died from long Covid. Answer her better to pay all the debtors her husband owed before he got sick. So no, people do pay for it. Just not her. Yeah she can keep her 4 million pound gaff by peddling her grief books, filming her dying husband, invited the media to the funeral and now is ploughing out yet another pity me party to scrounge more money out of the grief whores who think she can do wrong.

Wrong. This thread is about people’s opinions of her and why she’s doing what she’s doing.

Don’t forget the THREE companies owned by Kate and Derek went bust before he died with financial problems dating back YEARS. They owed hundreds of thousands to creditors none of which will be likely to be paid back. They owed their arses out.
He was being chased by California courts for not paying £1,633 in traffic fines and risked being arrested if he ever entered the country again. Give me a bloody break!

No. True facts and the opinions of how she is conducting herself to make money.

Are you quite alright? You must have posted 20 times now and seem to be getting increasingly agitated. You are strangely overly invested in this. You should consider backing away from the Internet after tonight’s programme is shown, your blood pressure must be through the roof already.

How dare she conduct herself in a manner that doesn’t please others. 😅

As my nana used to say, you’ll never please everyone, so you may as well please yourself.

I looked after my terminally ill father while managing his care needs/co-ordinating appointments, care visits, palliative care team, equipment... and while looking after a family and working 6 hours a day with a 30 mile commute each way. By the time he died, I was a shell of myself. So I do feel "qualified" to judge Kate who for all her unpaid carer claims appears to have done very little of it herself to run up such debts.

Just giving my opinion like everyone else. I can’t bear underhand scroungers. Ohhh don’t forget your tissues for tonight to cry for poor, penniless, grieving Kate Grabaway.

She sure is doing that! At every turn. Kaaaaaching!

Good for you. You did it your way, she’s doing it hers. A father is very different to a life partner who you share dependent children with. I expect to live without my father, very different emotionally when it’s your partner.

Your opinion is still irrelevant anyway, along with everyone else’s. Either watch the programme or don’t, that’s where our involvement in this begins and ends. There’s no being ‘qualified’ to judge on something so personal.