Kate Garraway's husband Derek Draper was rushed back into hospital for an operation following a long period of ill health, reports suggest.
The Good Morning Britain star is said to have remained by her husband's bedside on Friday night. Derek has been in and out of hospital since contracting coronavirus back in March 2020. During the last two years he has suffered long periods of ill health, with the virus having caused so much damage to his organs, the Mirror reports.
Derek, a former political advisor who is one of the people worst affected by Covid in the country.
He is reported to have undergone an operation on his kidneys.
He suffered significant damage to his organs after being put on a ventilator and was in intensive care for 214 days.
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Kate took several weeks off from her Good Morning Britain and Smooth FM radio shows to be by Derek's bedside when he took a turn for the worse recently. It later emerged Derek was battling life-threatening sepsis.
Earlier this month she shared an update on her husband's health.
Speaking about Derek's condition on her return to GMB she said: "Derek came out of hospital three weeks ago and we hadn't had any medical eruptions. Then we were on air and I got a phone call from the person looking after him saying 'we are really worried'. He was just really unwell.
"I whizzed home and it just went 'boom' from there. We called an ambulance, he went to A&E and they said he had very severe, life-threatening sepsis. It was really dramatic."
"By process of elimination and questions, a really junior doctor asked me what I thought it might be," she added. "He knew it wasn't Covid because we tested before, but I said I wondered if it was a urine infection but weirdly we couldn't get anything for a sample.
"They just went, 'kidneys'. Unfortunately his kidneys were really badly infected, blocked, and the challenge now is to save them. So that's where we've been for the last three weeks."
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