{"id":2189609,"date":"2025-12-06T21:40:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2189609"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:40:42","slug":"kate-garraway-is-open-to-romantic-love-after-loss-of-derek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kate-garraway-is-open-to-romantic-love-after-loss-of-derek\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Garraway is open to &#8216;romantic love&#8217; after loss of Derek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"e3f99b31-04f0-4457-8742-a2b6ea06d6b4\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/tag\/kate-garraway\/\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/tag\/kate-garraway\/\">Kate Garraway<\/a> opened up on the prospect of finding love again following the death of her husband Derek in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Jamie Laing\u2019s <em>Great Company <\/em>podcast, Kate got candid about the idea of dating and admitted she would be sad to never find romance again.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-seasonal\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"e3f99b31-04f0-4457-8742-a2b6ea06d6b4-2\">The <em>Good Morning Britain<\/em> presenter\u2019s husband, Derek Draper, passed away following a gruelling battle with health complications caused by contracting Covid-19 in March 2020.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-b border-solid border-[#333]\">\n<span class=\"&#10;after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t-[#333] after:border-t after:border-solid&#10;before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t-[#333] before:border-t before:border-solid&#10;font-article-heading pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333] flex\"><br \/>\nYou may like<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Having been married to Derek for almost two decades, the concept of dating is rather foreign to Kate, who told Jamie, \u201cWell, I wouldn&#8217;t like to think that I never had romantic love in my life ever again. I think that would be rather a sad way to go through life, wouldn&#8217;t it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"c8682988-4b08-45a2-bf86-28baa713c88d\">However, Kate admitted she isn\u2019t ready just yet and added, \u201c But no, I&#8217;m not. I&#8217;m not there yet. I don&#8217;t know if anybody would want me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Telling Jamie she wouldn\u2019t venture into the world of dating apps, Kate explained, \u201cI&#8217;ve never really dated. Everybody keeps asking, &#8216;Are you dating?&#8217; I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever dated in the way that you guys see as dating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c I think it&#8217;s a deeply uncomfortable thing to do to go to meet somebody you&#8217;ve never met. I&#8217;d just end up interviewing them.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-VquNiz2AzfjGUY5tTfULcJ\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-VquNiz2AzfjGUY5tTfULcJ slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Sign up to our free daily email for the latest royal and entertainment news, interesting opinion, expert advice on styling and beauty trends, and no-nonsense guides to the health and wellness questions you want answered.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As someone in the midst of navigating grief, Kate\u2019s advice to others dealing with the loss of a loved one is \u201cit\u2019s not linear\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;d say it&#8217;s about understanding it will feel differently on different days. Not being scared to smile and laugh. That&#8217;s not disloyalty,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot being scared to allow joy in because, you know, they&#8217;d want that. Yes. Seek it out, seek it out because you feel guilty, don&#8217;t you, you don&#8217;t want to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.womanandhome.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Garraway opened up on the prospect of finding love again following the death of her husband Derek in January 2024. Appearing on Jamie Laing\u2019s Great Company podcast, Kate got candid about the idea of dating and admitted she would be sad to never find romance again. 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