Kate Garraway video called her husband Derek Draper last night to tell him they had won a National Television Award - and he was "so happy".
Kate Garraway
The 'Good Morning Britain' presenter triumphed in the Authored Documentary category at Thursday night's (09.09.21) NTAs for her ITV doc 'Kate Garraway: Finding Derek', which told of her significant other's battle with coronavirus, which he is still recovering from after initially being hospitalised in March 2020.
Kate stayed in a hotel last night, so she FaceTimed her daughter Darcey, 15, who woke up Derek, who was delighted with the news.
Speaking on 'GMB' on Friday (10.09.21), she said: "The one person I couldn't have there was Derek.
"I didn't go home last night, which is not as much of a scandal as it appears.
"I'd booked a hotel room really near to the ceremony, because I knew I was coming here today and I would only get about an hour of sleep.
"I managed to wake up Darcey on her phone and said, 'Can you please take your phone down to dad and Facetime him.'
"So she woke him up, and he was a bit bewildered. But he definitely knows [we won].
"He was so happy, you could see it in his eyes.
"He was very happy that I was happy.
"And it was just lovely to be able to share that, so thank you very much."
Kate admitted the NTA win was "bittersweet" because Derek - who is still receiving 24/7 care at home as he battles COVID after-effects - wasn't able to attend the ceremony.
She said: "Of course, it was bittersweet last night, because Derek wasn't well enough to come.
"There wasn't really any question of it.
"I was actually in such a daze, I didn't expect to win."
But Kate was pleased she went to the spectacle, after previously admitting she wasn't sure whether or not to go.
She said: "It was definitely right to go for all the people who came up to me and said, 'Thank you, the documentary really helped me.'
"They told me their stories of people they had lost or who were still damaged and suffering with it.
"It was really fantastic."
In her acceptance speech last night, Kate admitted it was "brave" of ITV to commission the programme, because nobody knew what to expect.
She said: "Thank you so much. It was a hugely brave decision of ITV I think to commission this. They didn’t really know what they were making. They didn’t know if it was a story about bereavement or about triumph. Lucy [Wilcox, the director and cinematographer] arrived in our home not knowing if she was seeing a family in grief or relief, and in the end, it was something between the two.
"Thank you so much for voting. I wonder if the reason why you did is because our story is your story? I think we’ve all been touched by the pandemic, whether it’s livelihoods or mental health.
"I just want to say to all the Darceys and Billys and Dereks, whatever you’re going through, however you’re affected, you’re not forgotten."
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