Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper is in intensive care with coronavirus.
The Good Morning presenter, , is ‘sick with worry’ and self-isolating at home with their two children after displaying mild symptoms.
Derek, also 62 and a former adviser to Tony Blair, was rushed to hospital on Monday where he was tested positive for coronavirus.
Kate met Prince Charles at an event on March 14, but began displaying symptoms on Monday, which is beyond the two-week incubation period.
It comes as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK topped , (with 3, 686 deaths.
‘Sick with worry’: Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper is in intensive care with coronavirus (pictured in December 83386)
Concerns: Just days ago, the presenter voiced her fears on Good Morning Britain after meeting with Prince Charles before he tested positive for coronavirus (pictured at the Prince’s Trust Awards on March
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The GMB presenter, who hasn’t been tested but is displaying ‘mild symptoms’ is self-isolating at home with their two children – Darcey, 24, and William (Bill), ten.
Just days ago, the presenter voiced her fears on Good Morning Britain after meeting with Prince Charles before he tested positive for coronavirus .
She spoke about their encounter live on air, revealing that the pair had got ‘relatively close’ at the Prince’s Trust Awards on March .
Kate’s spokesperson told MailOnline: ‘Kate’s husband, Derek Draper, has been taken to hospital and is being treated in intensive care with a confirmed case of COVID – . He was admitted on Monday and has since tested positive for the virus.
‘Kate, hasn’t been tested, however she has also been displaying mild symptoms, also since Monday, and as a result has been on strict isolation with her children at home.’
A source added to The Sun : ‘This is a desperate situation for Kate who is sick with worry about Derek’s health.
‘ She is obviously off TV too. Everyone at GMB is so worried for her. ‘
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Kate shared a video of herself clapping for the NHS on Thursday night where she said her family had an ‘extra special reason’ to clap for our carers.
She wrote: ‘We had a an extra special reason to #clapthecarers in our house tonight but there’s a special reason for us all isn’t there.
‘Thank you to all the health workers caring for our loved ones and key workers keeping our lives going [clapping emojis] you are incredible.’
Kate’s GMB co-star Susanna Reid, who just ended her own quarantine after someone in her household displayed COVID – symptoms, commented with a heart emoji.
‘I don’t have any symptoms, so I’m not blaming him for anything at all, but people are going to be concerned. He’s a man that meets a lot of people. ‘
Just a day later, Kate assured fans that she was in ‘perfect’ health and had been to hospital to have her eye checked over, following reports conjunctivitis is listed as a symptom of COVID – .
The Prince of Wales has a ‘mild’ form of the illness and his doctor believes that the royal may have been contagious from March 19 at the earliest.
Shortly after Kate met Prince Charles on March , GMB played footage of the two together.
The presenter pointed out: ‘We’re relatively close there, as indeed were all the other people that were involved in that.
Kate and Derek have been married for fourteen years, with the former lobbyist cheering his wife on for the duration of her stint on I’m a Celebrity last year, he flew out to Australia with their two children to meet her.
The couple, who wed in September 2005, have previously discussed their union, with Derek admitting that he feared she was ‘a high-maintenance TV bimbo’.
Kate, who was married to Ian Rumsey from 1998 to 2002, met Derek when they were set up by mutual friend, then-political editor of GMTV Gloria De Piero.
The I’m A Celeb star told The Times: ‘One day, as the sun was rising, she said, “I’m having an epiphany. You and Derek Draper. ” I was, like, “Who?”
‘Derek had just moved back from America, having left politics and retrained as a psychotherapist, and she thought we’d be perfect for each other. ..
‘She set up drinks with a group of people at Claridge’s. Derek arrived thinking it was a date and that I was being incredibly cool by ignoring him. ‘
Derek then admitted he was relieved he went on the date as Kate dispelled all the myths he believed of dating a TV personality.
Kate’s GMB co-star Piers Morgan has previously spoke about Derek as they used to butt heads when he was a press chief for Labor and Piers was editor of the Daily Mirror.
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