EXCLUSIVELife after Derek: Kate Garraway is 決定するd to 'move 今後' and create 'wonderful new memories' for her two children に引き続いて the death of husband Derek Draper after an 'incredibly 堅い few years', friends say
- Derek died in January 老年の 56 almost four years after he 契約d Covid?
Kate Garraway is 決定するd to create 'wonderful new memories' for her two children as they get used to 存在 a family of three after the loss of her husband Derek Draper in January, によれば friends.
The TV presenter and 放送者 has 認める that losing Derek, 56, in January, almost four years after he was struck 負かす/撃墜する by Covid and its 複雑化s 'left a big 穴を開ける' in all their lives.
But now she's 決定するd to try and piece her life 支援する together and fill that 穴を開ける with love and happiness.
The first step on the 旅行 will be a family holiday with the children this year, she told MailOnline at the 週末, 追加するing: 'It's going to be a bit challenging because it's a different 肉親,親類d of family 始める,決める up that we have now.
'But we will do something lovely.'
Kate Garraway with her two children Darcey (left) and Billy (権利) …に出席するing the funeral of Derek Draper in February
Kate arriving in Heathrow with her Darcey, Billy and Derek in 2019. This summer will the first for the family without Derek?
A source の近くに to Kate, who turns 57 on Saturday, 追加するd that she was mindful of the 抱擁する emotional 重荷(を負わせる) her children, Darcey, 18 and 14-year-old Billy, have had to 耐える during Derek's illness and passing.
'Kate is 決定するd to give her two children the experiences they 行方不明になるd out on during what has been an incredibly 堅い few years,' said the friend.
'They need to get used to life as a family of three, create new memories and look 今後.
'She's planning on taking them away when work and school 許す, and it'll be a trip which is certainly needed.
'It's also what Derek would have 手配中の,お尋ね者, he loved family holidays and it's something she wants to continue if and when she can.'
Derek was amongst the first in the UK to 落ちる 本気で ill with Covid-19, 存在 認める into an 集中的な care 部隊 as the country entered lockdown in March 2020.
He was one of the country's longest 苦しむing Covid 患者s after 存在 in hospital but never fully 回復するd after the ウイルス left long-継続している 損失 to his 組織/臓器s and meant he needed 一連の会議、交渉/完成する-the-clock care.
放送者 Kate has spoken candidly about losing her husband and has also opened up about her perilous 財政上の 明言する/公表する, 原因(となる)d by spending so much on his care.
In the moving 最近の ITV 文書の Derek's Story - filmed over the last eight months of his life - she 明らかにする/漏らすd his care was costing £16,000 a month.
Derek died in January 老年の 56, four years after he was struck 負かす/撃墜する by Covid. Derek is pictured here in?
Kate Garraway is 決定するd to create 'wonderful new memories' for her two children Darcey, 18, and Billy, 14 (Pictured in March celebrating Darcey's 18th birthday)
2019: Kate with her husband Derek and their two children Darcey and Billy in Australia after her stint in ITV show I'm A Celebrity Get ME Out Of Here!?
Derek was amongst the first in the UK to 落ちる 本気で ill with Covid-19, 存在 認める into an 集中的な care 部隊 as the country entered lockdown in March 2020?
It will be the first summer without Derek.?A source の近くに to Kate, who turns 57 on Saturday, 追加するd that she was mindful of the 抱擁する emotional 重荷(を負わせる) her children
Kate has 認める her first family holiday without her husband Derek Draper will be 'challenging'
In an emotional admission of the couple's 悲惨な 財政/金融s, she said: 'Derek's care costs more than my salary from ITV and that is before you 支払う/賃金 for a mortgage, before you 支払う/賃金 any 世帯 法案s, before you 支払う/賃金 for anything for the kids, so we are at a crunch point.
'I am in 負債. I can't earn enough money to cover my 負債 because I am managing Derek's care and I can't even use the money I do have to support Derek's 回復 because it's going on the basics all the time.
One of the ways she 誓約(する)d to honour former 最高の,を越す 労働 助言者 Derek's memory was (選挙などの)運動をするing for a better 取引,協定 for Britain's forgotten army of an 概算の 10 million 未払いの carers.
She spoke movingly in the 文書の about the impossible 状況/情勢 直面するd by those struggling to 供給する long-称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 care.
She said: 'We are 完全に reliant on 驚くべき/特命の/臨時の carers. But the system in which they work is unbelievably 複雑にするd, unbelievably underfunded.
'And trying to 会合,会う an impossible need. People get sick, and then it's no longer considered the 権利 thing for them to be in hospital.
'Why does coming home feel like 落ちるing off a cliff?'
After her husband's death, she 反映するd: 'If anybody had a big life, it was Derek. And it's left a big 穴を開ける.
'A lot of people as a way of 慰安ing me, I think, say it must be 救済 in a way that he's out of 苦痛, and for you that your day isn't 消費するd with caring for him. But there isn't a 救済.'
She 追加するd: 'I think if I have any 悔いるs, it's every 選び出す/独身 minute that I didn't spend 持つ/拘留するing his 手渡す.
Kate made her first red carpet 外見 since her husband Derek Draper's death as she …に出席するd The Variety Club Showbusiness Awards with Ben Shephard?
The 星/主役にする put on a chic 陳列する,発揮する in a light yellow 控訴 and sparkly halterneck silver 最高の,を越す as she 提起する/ポーズをとるd with 新聞記者/雑誌記者 Emily Maitlis (権利)?
She 完全にするd the look with pointy white leather boots and wore her light tresses in a bouncy blow 乾燥した,日照りの as she 提起する/ポーズをとるd with Emily and 放送者 Jon Sopel
Kate 株d a message of 'hope' and 'new beginnings' on Instagram over 復活祭 as she comes to 条件 with the death of her beloved husband
'Because I had to go and 令状 an email I had to go and make a phone call having to fight the system that should be there to catch you but which feels when you're going through it like it's there to catch you out.
'And that's what now I want to be Derek's 遺産/遺物 to fight on for that change.'
Kate - who 借りがあるs between £500,000 to £800,000 - told The Times last month: 'Derek's needs were 明確に so 広大な/多数の/重要な, yet he didn't 令状 基金d care ― so you think, 'If he isn't getting it, then who is?'
'To be fair to them, no one's 接触するd me since he's passed away to ask for that. They may 井戸/弁護士席 still do, but they 港/避難所't as yet.
'The bigger picture of the その上の 控訴,上告s I 港/避難所't 演説(する)/住所d yet, because I'm still in 生き残り 方式. It's supposed to be a system that's meant to catch you if you 落ちる. But 現実に, it feels like it's trying to catch you out.'
Derek 苦しむd a heart attack before Christmas and died on January 3.
At his funeral, Sir Tony Blair, Sir Keir Starmer and Sir Elton John were amongst those who gathered at the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Primrose Hill - where Kate married her partner in 2005 - to 企て,努力,提案 別れの(言葉,会) to the New 労働 巨大(な).
新聞記者/雑誌記者 Robert Peston, talent 経営者/支配人 Jonathan Shalit, former political editor of GMTV and ex-労働 MP Gloria De Piero and former Sky News political editor Adam Boulton also 長,率いるd into the church.
Kate's past and 現在の Good Morning Britain 同僚s were also out in 軍隊 to support her on a 悲劇の day.
As she and her family navigate the uncharted waters ahead, she may 井戸/弁護士席 解任する a line in her own 調書をとる/予約する The Strength of Love, which chronicled Derek's 進歩.
She 献身的な the 調書をとる/予約する to 'all those 直面するing a fearful and 予測できない to morrow. Let love, in its myriad forms, be our beacon.'