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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Tim Jonze

‘Let them talk for a wee bit, then go in for the kill!’ Lorraine Kelly on tough interviews and going rogue

Lorraine Kelly
‘You should allow yourself to be challenged’ … Lorraine Kelly. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Guardian

Lorraine Kelly is pulling at her hair and shrieking: “Aaarrrrgghhh!”

It is the morning after news leaked about Downing Street’s bring-your-own-booze party, held during those painful early months of lockdown and attended by the rule-flouting prime minister himself. Even after discussing it on her weekday breakfast TV show, Lorraine, the presenter is still trying to process the revelations. “Just when you think you can’t make it up!” she says. “Jesus, honestly, if they told me now that they’d had a masked ball for 1,000 people, like the Met ball or something, I’d just go: ‘Yeah, yep.’ And why on earth do they need an inquiry into it? If I said to you: ‘So, you went for a wee coffee today at Starbucks?’ you either did or you didn’t; you don’t need an inquiry into that!”

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