Kate Garraway emotionally grilled Matt Hancock on GMB
Watch: Matt Hancock grilled by Kate Garraway on GMB
Kate Garraway informed Matt Hancock he didn’t appear to grasp why individuals had been so indignant with him for participating in I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!.
The Good Morning Britain presenter – who was unable to go to husband Derek Draper in hospital after he contracted coronavirus through the pandemic on account of ther authorities’s COVID restrictions – confronted the previous health secretary about his paid look on actuality present.
Garraway, 55, was visibly emotional as she requested: “The issue is that since you had been well being secretary, as a result of at the moment, I could not go to Derek in hospital.
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“He could not see his youngsters. Hundreds of others could not go and see the individuals they liked for varied causes as a result of they had been following the rules and it’s a must to perceive it was all very muddled at that time for us out right here on the earth.
“It gives the look that you just nonetheless do not get why they’re cross. You continue to do not get why persons are upset.”
She added: “You made the choice to go in at a time earlier than you’d answered to a enquiry and at a time when individuals nonetheless fell very uncooked. Are you able to clarify now, as a result of I am undecided individuals but really feel comfy why you probably did it?”
The TV presenter had tears in her eyes, her voice faltered now and again and she or he may very well be seen taking deep, sluggish breaths to calm her nerves.
Hancock responded: “I get all that I actually do, and I actually really feel it.”
Draper stays in a wheelchair and suffers many ongoing medical complication because of his long battle with coronavirus. He fell in poor health in March 2020 and returned home to Garraway and their two youngsters – Darcey and 13-year-old son Billy – in April 2021.
Garraway joined Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid for the prolonged reside interview with the previous well being secretary.
Hancock insisted that he didn’t do I am A Celeb for the cash.
He stated: “I didn’t primarily do it (go on the fact present) for the cash, I primarily did it to attempt to present who I’m.”
The MP earned £320,000 for his look on the present, three per cent of which he donated to the St Nicholas Hospice in Suffolk and the British Dyslexia Affiliation.
He additionally admitted he want to go into TV presenting and make documentaries on issues he thought had been “necessary”.
Reid requested him: “Would you wish to host Good Morning Britain? Is that what that is about? Do you wish to sit within the Piers Morgan ‘mincer’ chair? You are laughing. Is that what you are after?”
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Hancock stated: “No, I am not going to be making use of in your job. You do it too properly.”