Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway could not be more devoted to her husband Derek Draper, who spent over a year in the hospital battling coronavirus.
The pair wed in 2005 and were as in love as ever when Kate signed up for Strictly Come Dancing in 2007.
But the following year she had to take legal action when false allegations were made about her relationship with dancer Anton Du Beke, who she was paired with on the BBC ballroom contest.
The Good Morning Britain star – who said she was “extremely hurt” by the false claims in the Mirror and Sunday Mirror – won her case and Mirror Group Newspapers accepted the allegations were not true.
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It also agreed to pay substantial damages to the TV star, who now fronts her own Saturday morning show, Garraway’s Good Stuff.
Speaking after winning her legal case, the presenter said she was glad it was over.
“No one likes to take legal action against a newspaper but I could see no alternative,” she said.
“The way my friendship with Anton was twisted into something sordid was terribly unfair and upsetting. I wanted everyone to know that what had been written was completely wrong.”
Derek also spoke out, saying in a statement that the false story had been “deeply upsetting”.
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