TV presenter Kate Garraway's Christmas 'dream' to get husband Derek Draper back home to Chorley

The star has deen documenting her family's life since Derek became seriously ill with Covid-19, spending over a year in hospital.

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The presenter has now opened up about her plans for Christmas and her hope that she'll be able to get 54-year-old Derek back to his home town.

She told Women's Own: "This year, we have got him home - and fingers crossed we can keep him home. Of course, he's not going to be putting on his Santa costume, going out with [daughter] Darcey for a father-and-daughter Christmas shop or the same with [son] Billy.

"None of those things are on the horizon at the moment so it's adjusting to a new normal but also grateful he's here at all. which we didn't have at all last year and feared would never happen."

Kate said she was adjusting to a 'new normal'

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She added: "The dream would be to get Derek to Chorley [with the Draper side of the family]. At the moment, moving him is a big problem: it's exhausting for him.

"If not, maybe the Drapers could come to us for a big gathering, covid permitting. And certainly I'll be seeing the Garraways but my oven is broken so I'm not sure anyone wants to come to me."

Derek, a former politcal advisor for the Labour Party, was raised in Chorley and attended Runshaw College in Leyland.