Welcome Back Kate Garraway We’re So Happy to Have You Back!

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here I'm sorry it's very strange that makeup artists They made me cry this morning just by saying hello. I already got some lovely hugs from everyone, so no one hugged me. Nobody be nice to me. That's what I'm saying. That seems good to me. All of you at home too. I know I mentioned it on Monday, but you've been amazing and it's lovely.

I keep saying treat me normally and suddenly everyone realizes that they don't know how to do it anymore, especially you because you are used to being rude, yes, normally, normally. I'll give you a little bit of freedom today, of course, it was an experience, yeah, a little bit, a little bit, we all heard that, don't get carried away, you heard don't get carried away, uh, it was an extraordinary, um, funeral, it was one of the most extraordinary royal farewell celebrations and you and Darcy and Bill and all the family and Derrick's family and your family really made Dereck proud, it was something extraordinary, yes, I definitely wanted to make it about Derek, not about me, that changes . this morning, by the way, it came back to me, um, but not definitely about Derek, all jokes aside and his friends were fantastic, his family was amazing, Darcy and Billy, oh my gosh, and they continue to be and always have been, but it was really lovely.

Besides feeling so much love from everyone here uh look at Laura looking at me looking so beautiful in the faux leather morning, we really like that uh everyone has been so kind and all of you, honestly, it's just amazing and I keep thinking, Keep that beautiful feeling because I know I'm very lucky to have it, yes, because a lot of people don't have the jobs that you and I have and therefore they have a lot of love around them from the people they know. but it's harder for people to feel like that's not the case because they don't feel it the same way and even the prolonged experience I had of being your friend and you know having to put up with you for All these years have finally been worth it because people are becoming approaching me.

It's simply a coincidence. I got a few messages yesterday from people saying look B. We know how difficult it has been for Kate as one of her friends, we just want to reach out to you. and saying, I hope you're doing well too, yeah, and I think you're absolutely right, that sense of collective connection, yeah, it's something we could do more of and it's really amazing to experience how good it's been. I'm glad you finally got some benefit from me after 24 years. Thank you very much. I won't talk about it all morning because I'm supposed to get everything done with work just to warn you that I don't know anything about what's going on. in the news, I mean literally nothing, no change there, so I usually feel completely adrift.

I like to pretend I'm asking stupid questions, just CU, it's on behalf of people who may not know. Don't know. It just feels like we're back where we were and nothing at the beginning, at the beginning. I do the weather, although the weather is still a story, thank God for the weather, always there for the weather. Rich joined us, so I thought I'd take advantage of this moment. he just shares a few more messages that have reached Richard because he, of course, saw Kate for the last time at the funeral on Friday. We can talk about what happened to Richard at the funeral in a moment.

Many people will get in touch. Jackie says good morning, honey. Kate, you are doing an amazing job. I have been through similar moments and it is the first day of everything trying to recover the fear of only you being kind. You are amazing. Sending you lots of positivity. Kate, nice to see you again. GMB lost my partner in 2021 this is from Susan tomorrow Susan to covid I still have my moments of pain with your family and friends around you you will get over it uh and then Kevin you have to hope it doesn't end in one day Yeah, yeah, you know, that's what everyone said, Kevin, that's great, K got back together with his partner Ben, that was that minor side, it could have been, I think it was, I love seeing you home, uh, it was, it was extraordinary, it was phenomenal.

The swan song, so if we're ready for Derek's swan song, slightly uncut, there was a moment at the end, this is the man to deliver it, deliver it, this extraordinary farewell to such a wonderful man and who was Private for those in the room that was private, you picked good bits, good reveal to what I did. I might have mentioned to Rob Rinda towards the end of the ceremony that um, I was a little thirsty, and I think Derek from a wet cloud decided to have a little fun on my own or at my expense, champag, he said he wanted champagne, so obviously there was a little drink to raise a glass from the good man at the end and I was standing on the eaves or you know, under one of the EES in the church in the church and I turned around and this butler carrying a tray of champagne, six glasses crashed directly into me.

He was completely soaked from head to toe and the sound is all over the place. Dy I just love it, he was the noise I heard that noise, I didn't know what it was, it was like a big wedding, right? and suddenly all that noise of the tray and the champagne glasses and everything, I was soaked and obviously I had to wait a good half hour before I left and when I came back to take care of my mom, she went to have a drink at a funeral exactly my other lovely moment, if I may share this, Dereck's sisters were amazing with as many of the people who spoke that day were wonderful, but I didn't realize that Derek was the spirit animal for me that I always thought he could It may be because he had a photo of Jring on his wall growing up. and his sister said he had a Lego jring that would terrorize his Lego city, that was me, that was exactly me in the 80s, he used to march up to his sisters and say, "I'll take care of all this, there's oil." I found under your dollhouse.

Well, there is great excitement welcoming you today. It's a pleasure to have you home. Really, thank you very much for all the nice messages that are coming. I just want to read this one. Julia. I love you. I'll see you back. Kate. with Ben being a widow, I know those unsettled feelings, thanks for always thinking of others, while St, you know, someone, sorry for interrupting, I did it with someone the other day, someone called me a widow for the first time, it took my breath away , was an Amazon Delivery Driver who said: I'm so sorry for your loss now that you're a widow and it suddenly dawns on you and I suddenly realize that what everyone goes through is that every moment is something new that we all have to overcome. and everyone has it with all kinds of things they face, sorry no, but I really understand how people feel about these things, there are moments of pain that you don't expect and suddenly people are very loving, yeah . but thank you all, I was going to continue giving her family a big hug, uh, and then she breaks up with Ben, you're a special man, he really is, which I think is fair, he really is, and it's fair, and it's important to record Ben.

Those messes are very very appreciated, thank you.