KATE Garraway fought back tears during her first day back at Good Morning Britain today while talking to coronavirus survivor Michael Rosen.
The 53-year-old presenter admitted getting emotional as her eyes filled with tears as the children's book writer described his recovery after 47 days in a coma.
Kate said: "It's stories like yours that give everybody hope, so thank you very much indeed."
Her co-host Ben Shephard agreed: "It's hugely important. Kate, as you've said to me in the past about recovery, where there's life there's hope.
"That has been a long journey for Michael and it's continuing. I thought that was a lovely description – 'COVID has a very long tail'."
Kate replied: "A very long tail, it does and it gets more so.
"There will be emotional and physical [battles] for the families and everybody else…"
She struggled to carry on as she got teary, adding: "I might get emotional so shall we talk to Lorraine."
Michael, the author of the Bear Hunt, is learning to walk again after his coronavirus battle. He warned: "It isn't an illness you have and just leave behind. I hope, Kate, it gives you some hope too."
Kate replied: "It's fantastic to see people come through this. It's so lovely to hear you."
The presenter bravely returned to work at Good Morning Britain this morning after a four-month break while her husband remains fighting for his life.
The presenter admitted her first day back hadn't been smooth sailing as things went wrong behind the scenes.
Before going on air at 6am, Kate's driver failed to turn up, her computer went into a two-hour update and the show's autocue operator slept in.
She also warned she would get "emotional" if her colleagues were "too nice".
Since March, the presenter has been supporting her sick husband Derek Draper throughout his devastating coronavirus battle.
Despite her tragic circumstances, Kate is trying to "look to the future" and get some normality back in her family's lives.
Welcoming her back, co-host Ben Shephard said: "I've got a big smile on my face because she's back. It's lovely to see you because nothing's gone wrong yet.."
"Well, you say that, but quite a lot has gone wrong this morning already," laughed Kate.
"The car to pick me up, didn't show up. I came into work and a very senior person had come into work early to make sure my computer worked -because I'm legendary for being useless at computers and having been away for three months the chances are no one could even find it – and just as I arrived it went into a two-hour update.
"And apparently we haven't got anyone on autocue either."
Ben explained: "Someone has stepped in but our autocue operator has overslept.
"Maybe they had the same driver as you. Who knows what we'll be saying. But it's lovely to have you here."
Posting a snap of herself wearing a mask in the car as she headed to the GMB studios today, Kate wrote on Instagram: "Well here we go – back on @gmb with @benshephardofficial from 6 am – very much looking forward to seeing you all."
Speaking about wearing a mask on the show today, Kate said: "I put a mask on in the car this morning after hearing what people are saying about enclosed spaces.
"I am exceptionally cautious. It is better for the driver, better for everybody. It feels like you're doing your best to protect. Maybe it needs to be the law."
In a moving interview on Wednesday, Kate told viewers she was coming back to present the show with her close friend Ben while Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid take their summer break.
This morning she was flooded with messages from viewers who were thrilled to see her back in the studio.
And her TV colleagues said how great it was to see her back in the presenting chair.
"Don't be too nice or I'll get too emotional, go back to being rude," said Kate.
"It's lovely to be here."
She went onto admit that she'd dyed her hair blonde in preparation of being back on telly – but said: "It looks almost fluorescent."
Kate added: "If ever there is a professional crisis, fake tan, put veery false eyelashes on and go blonder. That was my tactic."
Announcing her return to GMB, she smiled: "I’m going to come back, I’m afraid. I’m going to come back on Monday if you’ll have me.
"You two are going [off for the summer], I’m coming back. I’m not sure I’ve got the fight to be Piers Morgan. I’ll be with Ben Shephard.
She continued: "I’ve got to get going, I’ve got to come back.
"I don’t want to make it sound like I’m Mother Teresa or anything, everyone’s having to do that, I’m not special or different, everyone’s having to get on with sadness and loss.
"If I come back we’ll all be in the same boat.”
Keeping her humour, Kate joked: "Darcey said, 'do I have to go to bed early just because you’re going to bed early?'"
While recent months have weighed heavy on her, Kate insisted that her husband, Derek Draper, would want her to return to the show and said she wanted their children; Darcy, 14, and Billie, 10, to have a "future".
She added: "Derek would not just be saying come back, he’d be saying, 'why haven’t you done it before?'
"As he got into the ambulance he said, 'Go inside and make them feel safe, because they're going to be panicking about this.'
"That would be his priority. "
Kate continued: "My job is to make him feel safe and make them feel that they have a future and a world and whatever happens with Derek – we hope and believe he can come back to us – but whatever happens they have to feel they have a world.
"To see me getting on, they’re going to go back to school in September."
The I'm A Celeb star returned to the studio on Wednesday for the first time since Derek was taken ill.
Kate revealed in an interview that Derek had emerged from his coma in hospital and even opened his eyes.
She said: "When medical staff say, ‘Good morning, Derek,’ he sometimes opens his eyes. We and the doctors are doing everything we can so that he can start to recover.”
However, in a rare social media post she also sounded a note of caution, saying the day he returned home having recovered still seemed "very uncertain" amid these "ghastly times".
In March, the former political adviser was taken into hospital suffering from coronavirus.
He begged to be put into a coma because he felt he was "suffocating".
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