Good Morning Britain favourite, Kate Garraway created her own drama on the ITV news programme after 'whacking' her co-star Ben Shephard. Clearly poorly, Ben battled with a tickly cough that got worse if he got the giggles, and while it was reported that Kate had her fellow presenter's best interests at heart, it didn't stop her wading in with an action that Ben said 'hurt'.
During the show on Friday (January 6), the pair welcomed Fred Sirieix to the show. According to Manchester Evening News, Fred is currently rumoured to be behind Pigeon on the new series of The Masked Singer. As Kate put on a French accent to say 'pigeon" as she attempted to imitate Fred, Ben ended up choking live on the show.
As Ben struggled, Kate sprung into action and whacked him on the back. "Oh it’s brilliant, every time I make him giggle he can’t speak for 10 minutes," Kate said. She then asked: "Does it help when I do that?" to which Ben replied: "No it doesn’t!”
Unsympathetically, Kate said: "Well it helps me”. Ben retorted: "It just hurts."
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Viewers on the other hand were genuinely concerned. Taking to social media, one person wrote: "#gmb Oh dear Ben you should be in bed!" Another added: "Should Ben really be at work and spreading all his lurgy germs around the place? #gmb."
Also on the show was Dr Amir Khan, who appeared on the programme via video link. During the interview with the medic, Kate spoke about her own A&E drama, explaining that she had recently had a hospital dash with her daughter, Darcey, who had got a piercing without her mum's knowledge.
The 54-year-old revealed that she had been forced to rush her teenage daughter to the hospital after "she went to pull it [the earing] off and the whole earring went inside her earlobe."
Discussing the current issues facing the NHS at the time as her anecdote, Kate continued: "This is not life or death but it’s probably not going to stop bleeding. It doesn’t feel like a GP thing because it’s going to have to be looked at so we went to A&E
"We were there until 4.45am from 11pm. I knew that was fair enough because it wasn’t life or death," she said. "But there was only one doctor in A&E for kids and the waiting room was full of children coughing and wheezing. All of them said to me I would have gone to the GP but I knew I couldn’t get in."
Kate continued: "It’s a real dilemma because you don’t want to be one of the parents filling up A&E with inappropriate things, but you’re not sure quite what else to do." But Dr Amir Khan, reassured Kate that A&E had been the most appropriate place for Darcey's incident.
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