Lorraine Kelly opened up about the 'beautiful' send off that took place for Dame Deborah James on Wednesday.
The 62-year-old TV presenter was pictured arriving at the funeral of Deborah, who sadly lost her battle with bowel cancer on June 28.
Opening Thursday's edition of her ITV show, Lorraine was joined by Dr Hilary Jones and wanted to touch upon the send off for her friend Deborah.
"We celebrated the life of someone very special yesterday, I was very honoured to be there with some of our team," Lorraine said.
"It was a beautiful, beautiful send off, it was so lovely, and it was sad, but it was a lovely celebration of an amazing, amazing woman."
“She is remarkable. It was beautiful, so beautiful, such a celebration of an amazing, amazing woman.
“There were a lot of tears and there really was genuinely a lot of laughs too, so it was great. She planned it all and it was perfection, as you would expect.”
Detailing what happened during the service, Lorraine continued: "Her kids Hugo and Eloise did... Hugo wrote a poem for his mum and read it out and Eloise did a reading.
And her husband Seb did the most beautiful eulogy, I mean it was lovely. Like I said, it was sad, it was also very, very up-lifting.
"And we talk about her legacy and her legacy is astonishing, what she's done to raise awareness but her legacy is also her children and they are, wow.
"They are incredible, incredible young people, they really are."
Lorraine then added: "The final weeks and months of her life she did so much, she achieved more in the last days of her life than most of us do in our whole lives.
“The amount of money she raised was astonishing. She will never ever be forgotten. Yesterday a whole bunch of people said we would get a tattoo with rebellious hope and I think I agreed to that.”
Lorraine airs weekdays at 9am on ITV and ITV Hub.
