Kate Garraway #2 MBE - Milking Britain Endlessly

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ChocolateCakeYum said:
It’s the language of the statement. The man isn’t even cold in the ground yet and she’s implying she’s ready to make deals.

Also this is Kate Garrway, a woman with a very long and very varied media career that hasn’t gone away. Her ability to financially support her children is still there. She’s not suddenly destitute.
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I think some people here just don't like her and are ready to pick holes in anything she posts 🤷‍♀️
 
I'm honestly so happy that Derek is now free from the pain and suffering that he has endured over the last 4 years. To see the shell of a man that he had become was so sad in comparison to the way he was prior to the pandemic. I'm particularly sad for his children who have lost their dad so long, but it can't have been easy seeing him suffer for so long and no longer be the hands on dad that he was (thinking back to when Kate was in the jungle etc).

Kate's post is just so sad to be honest. A cropped low resolution picture of Derek, no comment as to the man he was, but an emphasis of how OF COURSE she will be having much more to say about his final days and circumstances. If she wasn't ready or in the right head space yet to say such things, she didn't need to post anything at all - no one would have blamed her.

If she wants to write a book/make a TV show/carry out interviews about moving forward as a widow, that's on her. But at this point she should leave Derek's circumstances out of it. At least give him the dignity in death that he was sadly not allowed to have when he was alive.
 
ChocolateCakeYum said:
It’s the language of the statement. The man isn’t even cold in the ground yet and she’s implying she’s ready to make deals.

Also this is Kate Garrway, a woman with a very long and very varied media career that hasn’t gone away. Her ability to financially support her children is still there. She’s not suddenly destitute.
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The thing about Kate and the British media is she acts as though she's the first person to ever become a carer to a spouse. We dont need a book deal or whatever she has planned to carry on the woe is me act. She kept talking about how expensive it was but their combined salaries as well as being self employed meant they should have had life insurance to more than look after them when the worst happen. My aunts husband got ill and eventually died and she was left with 2 children under 10. Luckily he had the foresight to have a decent life insurance package (they werent rich just organised) that she could afford not to work for 2 years as well as keep the family home

Kate's not like the millions of people relying on statutory sick payments, carer benefits, non flexible jobs etc. Where are their OBEs?! Just shows u what a joke the honours system is.

The late Deborah James (bowel babe) used to irritate me at times, but she really revolutionised cancer knowledge and fundraised heavily and theres no doubt in my mind she has saved many lives even if she couldnt ultimately save her own. I'm yet to see the same level of altruism from kate, and in my eyes, she's heading down the route of Captain Tom's family
 
Joannabloggs said:
The late Deborah James (bowel babe) used to irritate me at times, but she really revolutionised cancer knowledge and fundraised heavily and theres no doubt in my mind she has saved many lives even if she couldnt ultimately save her own. I'm yet to see the same level of altruism from kate, and in my eyes, she's heading down the route of Captain Tom's family
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Kate can help them dismantle the "spa" if she runs low on publicity
 
Massively sad for Derek , his parents, kids and the version of Kate who was his wife, however that ‘more to say’ statement almost feels like a warning in some ways.

There are sadly hundreds of families who lose a parent young who don’t have anywhere near the funds or connections this family have to help them get by. She will not struggle financially

I hope she takes her time to grieve and be there for her children rather than trying to monetise this as quickly as possible but I can see ‘Kate Garraway- navigating widowhood’ coming to ITV in the bit too distant future.
 
it's a proper pile-on on her instagram post, all the hasbeens and zelebs throwing themselves at her in the hope of getting quoted in the Mail. If she's lucky, she'll get a cake sent over.

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We mock Kate but there are huge numbers of fan posts too, these are the people that lap up the documentaries and books I guess.

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I had no idea Kate has a thread on here 😅

Awful news about Derek's passing; I can't imagine how the children must be feeling, but at least his suffering is over now 😞.

I hadn't heard of Kate prior to Derek's battle with COVID, and I haven't liked her at all since she started cashing in on Derek's ordeal. I vaguely remember her saying something about struggling with money to fund his care, which I thought was tone deaf, especially as she hasn't permanently stopped working. What about the thousands of unpaid carers, like myself, who just have to suck it up and get by? 😠 Fortunately for myself, I've returned to uni to complete my final year, so my situation will eventually get better, but that's not the case for all carers.

The way she made Derek's tribute post all about herself screams narc to me. It won't be long until she cashes in on the loss and gets more titles and tit for her 'activism'. I don't think Derek even had the capacity to consent being filmed for that documentary - I could be wrong!

Given the fact she used to fuel Piers Morgan's problematic rants, and have some questionable views herself, I don't think she's genuine whatsoever.
 
Why did my phone start pinging with numerous news alerts about his death? Whilst I’m very sorry for his family’s loss, he is one of many people who die every day. IIRC he left politics after some sort of scandal and became a private individual so is there any need for all the outpouring and publicity?

I can’t stand Garraway and the comment ‘I have more to say’ immediately had me rolling my eyes. She loves the attention, the sound of her own voice and her whole post was about her. Proper narc behaviour.

Rant over, sorry! 🤣
 
I can’t help but feel relieved for Derek, he must’ve been in a living hell for so long trapped in a broken body, in pain and goodness knows what else. If he was an animal he would’ve been put down for his own comfort.
Regardless of what you may think of Kate, she’s had a tough couple of years too, hopefully now she’ll be able to eventually move on with her life.

I did think that the comment about her having ‘a lot to say’ was a strange one, but I’ll gloss over that….
 
I hope the 'more to say' will refer to Derek. He always seemed well liked by people in political circles and across the media, and a lot of people said what a fun- loving and kind guy he was. He also did amazingly well to get where he did coming from a working class northern background into an elitist industry such as journalism/ politics. So I hope tributes will focus on his life and him as a person and not the last few years and his illness.
 
I’m wondering if a statement was released to the press because in one of the Daily Mail stories earlier it said he had died on Wednesday night but she didn’t say that in her IG post. Whatever folk think about her it was obvious someone very close to them was updating the press regularly on how he was but where they were going to be when he was well enough to go out, and I’d take some convincing that it wasn’t Kate
 
Joan of Narc said:
I hope the 'more to say' will refer to Derek. He always seemed well liked by people in political circles and across the media, and a lot of people said what a fun- loving and kind guy he was. He also did amazingly well to get where he did coming from a working class northern background into an elitist industry such as journalism/ politics. So I hope tributes will focus on his life and him as a person and not the last few years and his illness.
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I wondered if the 'more to say' was a grievance to do with Derek's care which may be aired by Kate at a future date. Maybe I'm reading too much into it
 
I feel for Derek’s family but it must seen as a blessing he’s died and no longer suffering.
I’d imagine Victoria Clarke will be secretly seething her role of the media’s favourite widow has been cut short.
I’ve never felt comfortable with the way Kate has gone about things with Derek, I know people say she has to earn a living and I get that but she’s hardly scrabbling down the back of the sofa to find change to put leccy on the meter.

I hope she allows him some dignity in death that he wasn’t allowed in his final years of life, sadly though I don’t think she will.
 
YeahBrackie said:
I'm glad he's no longer suffering. He obviously didn't have any quality of life left. His poor kids though, I really feel for them.

I can't believe that announcement though. Not a single thing about Derek, the type of person he was, what a good father he was, the mark he left on the world. And I'm blown away that it wasn't enough to just say his family was by his side in his final days. She has to put herself above them by making sure everyone knew it was HER who was holding his hand when he died, not anyone else.

How heartbreaking to suffer so much for all those years and then not even get a fitting tribute to your life from the woman who loved you.
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Exactly this. Nothing about him as a person and a father. Nothing. I’d be gushing how wonderful my husband was etc. instead she’s letting us all know what a saint she was in those ‘long last hours’. Honestly vile
 
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