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Kate Garraway has struggled to hide her painful-looking eye infection early on Friday’s Good Morning Britain.
The presenter, 57, offered an explanation to viewers, insisting she was not ’emotional’ because her eyes appeared to be red and sore.
Amid celebrations for England’s semi-finals Euro victory, soaring them to Sunday’s match in Berlin, Kate paused the programme to share an update on her health.
She said: ‘We know not everybody is a footy fan… by the way, if I’m looking a bit emotional this morning, it’s partly the football, it’s also that I’ve got a rabid eye infection.
‘So I’m wearing my rose-tinted spectacles, so I can see everybody!’
‘I thought you were getting emotional about the game,’ co-host Adil Ray joked.
‘There’s an element of that too!’ Kate replied, laughing: ‘When I look through these spectacles I see a win! They’re rose-tinted and I see a win and I’m manifesting it!
‘I think we should all just embrace something to be joyous about.’
Some who missed her explanation were concerned watching from home, with GMB viewer Dan writing on X: ‘Is Kate ok? Her eyes don’t look right?’
This comes days after Kate spoke about ‘barely holding it together’ following the death of her husband Derek Draper.
Draper died in January aged 56 after a lengthy and difficult three-year battle with complications related to Covid-19.
Sharing updates a few months later amid support from fans, Kate revealed she was at ‘the beginning of grief’ and was facing ‘many ups and downs’ but was doing her best to focus on their two children, Darcey, 18, and Billy, 14.
Speaking at the ASA Foundation’s ball earlier this week, Kate said that she was slowly coming out of her grieving state but revealed that she was ‘barely holding it together’.
As per Closer, the TV star said: ‘I’m just at that early stage at the moment of coming out of grief. I’m just barely holding it together.
‘I haven’t actually been out that much so it’s nice to come out tonight, although it is a school night. I’m on telly tomorrow – so I won’t be able to stay out late.’
She added that she is trying to ‘celebrate life’ at the moment and spoke about turning 60 in a few years.
‘I’ve got my TV make-up on now so I look OK,’ she said. ‘But I really can’t believe I’m hurtling towards 60!
‘I’m very much celebrating life now, whatever the age. I don’t know whether I’ll do a party yet. Derek passed away so recently so it’s just one step at a time.’
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Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1.
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