There have been rumors for months that Kate Garraway is relationship fellow journalist Liam Halligan.
The whispers began after she was noticed performing in Essex for his band.
The Good Morning Britain presenter, 58, misplaced her husband Derek Draper two years in the past, after an extended battle with the after-effects of Covid-19, which she documented in a collection of award-winning ITV documentaries.
Since then, Garraway has appeared on Superstar Traitors (arguably Tom Daley’s greatest ever side-eye) and talked about how ‘transformative’ it proved after a interval of deep unhappiness and loss.
Garraway has reportedly recognized Halligan for 20 years, and he was additionally a pal of her late husband, however the pair are mentioned to have develop into shut in current occasions.
On July 25, Garraway was photographed with Halligan at a pal’s birthday, prompting The Solar to assert she was ‘laborious at work launching her relationship’.
However who’s Halligan and is he actually in a relationship with Garraway?
Who’s Liam Halligan?
The 57-year-old is an economics journalist who beforehand labored as economics and enterprise editor at GB Information till summer season 2024.
He has additionally written a weekly column for The Sunday Telegraph and presents a podcast for the newspaper.
He shares three kids along with his former companion and fellow journalist Lucy Ward, who writes for the Guardian and the Unbiased.
Is Kate Garraway in a relationship?
In accordance with one half of the speculated couple, it’s ‘early days’, however they may ‘see what occurs’.
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Halligan mentioned this Tuesday morning whereas discussing the romance rumors throughout an look on Mark Dolan’s Discuss TV radio present.
Halligan mentioned of Garraway: “I’ve recognized Kate for a very long time. I knew her late husband Derek, after all; Within the late Nineties I used to be a correspondent for the Monetary Occasions.
‘In recent times we’ve each develop into single for various causes, in opposition to our needs I’d say. And so Kate and I’ve develop into good associates over the previous few weeks and months.”
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He went on to say that the pair have been reintroduced by mutual associates, then added of their weekend on the Essex pub: ‘Kate and plenty of associates got here to see my band play.
‘It seems a few of my neighbors have been excited that she was within the pub and posted some photos.’
He continued: “Kate and I are good associates, it is nonetheless early days, we’ll see what occurs.”
Host Dolan wished the couple “good luck” and mentioned he had assumed Halligan would not be so forthcoming when requested concerning the hypothesis.
Garrway, in the meantime, has stored quiet about their alleged relationship, however The Solar stories that they’ve been seeing one another for the previous three months.
In early July, the pair each traveled to Italy, and an insider defined: “Liam requested Kate to affix him; she was completely happy to assist.
“It is going to be fairly quiet, however they nonetheless hope to spend a while collectively and revel in Italian delicacies.”
Metro reached out to Kate Garraway’s rep for touch upon this story.
This text initially appeared on April 15.
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