Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper smiled as she showed him a health and well-being garden created to help his recovery.
The Good Morning Britain presenter, 54, proudly unveiled the outdoor space in North London on Love Your Garden on Tuesday night.
Draper, a former political adviser, first became seriously ill after contracting Covid in March 2020.
The 54-year-old is now free of the virus but he has suffered long-lasting damage to his organs and requires constant care at home.
The garden created for his recovery will feature three different plants - medicinal, tea and aromatherapy.
Giving him a tour of the garden space, she said: “The garden needs to be more than a space to go into. I really want to grow some plants to improve our health and wellbeing.
“I love the idea that there’s plants that look good, smell good and do good. I hope it works.”
Last month, Garraway revealed Draper had flown out to Mexico in November 2021 to take part in a new treatment programme.
Garraway and Draper married in 2005 and have a daughter and a son, Darcey and Billy.
Recently months she said have been “an emotional rollercoaster” and “gruelling” for her but she has continued to juggle her TV career and she recently took over hosting ITV series Life Stories from Piers Morgan.
Garraway was made an MBE in the New Year Honours for her services to broadcasting, journalism and charity.
It comes after Garraway said she found a “new way to be in love” with her husband as he makes his recovery from Covid.
She told You magazine: “I’m not sure that we’ve ever fallen out of love, but I think a new path is emerging, a new way to be in love.
“He puts huge trust in me. He just says, “Whatever you think”, which is wonderful, but I do get quite tearful about it. I think, “God, I hope I’m worthy of that trust”.
“But I’ve got his back. That is a relationship in itself, isn’t it? How many times do couples have doubts about each other? That’s a positive thing to come out of this, to have that certainty of each other. He and I are very close.”
