Lorraine Kelly apologised to viewers as she fought back tears today.
Opening her ITV show on Wednesday, the Scottish TV host paid a touching tribute to Deborah James - a bowel cancer campaigner who lost her life to the disease yesterday at just 40 years old.
The mum-of-two, who launched a fundraising page called Bowel Babe to raise money for Cancer Research UK, was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer just before Christmas 2016, when she was aged 35. Dame Deborah died surrounded by her family on Tuesday, weeks after she confirmed she had stopped active treatment and was receiving palliative care at her parents’ home in Woking.