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Kate Garraway reveals she couldn't afford to use the heating due to the tight financial constraints of her late husband Derek Draper's care bills


The presenter has revealed the financial strains of her husband Derek Draper's care bills meant that she couldn't afford to have the heating on last October.

In an astonishing confession, the Good Morning Britain presenter said that she was unable to warm up the family home in North London by the end of the psychologist’s fatal four year battle with Covid. Kate Garraway, 56, has revealed she couldn't afford to use the heating due to the tight financial constraints of her late husband Derek Draper's care bills in her latest documentary Since emerging from a Covid induced coma in 2020, Derek was left wheelchair-bound and reliant on Kate and his carer, Jake, while he underwent stringent physiotherapy classes to try to regain strength in his body.

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