Good Morning Britain presenter, Kate Garraway, opened up about the trials of parenting her son, admitting “it is challenging.”
The 57 year old television host has two children with her late husband Derek Draper: daughter Darcey, 18, and son Billy, 15.
On the ITV morning show’s episode on Friday (February 28), Kate, alongside co-host Adil Ray, 50, welcomed guests Freddie Feltham, a documentary maker, and Dr Sophie King-Hill to the programme.
The conversation turned to the recent arrival of polarising internet personality Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan back in the US, after their permission to depart from Romania.
Seizing the opportunity, Kate spoke candidly about raising her son in an environment where influencers like Tate could impact young minds, voicing her hopes that her son isn’t influenced by such figures, reports the Manchester Evening News.
She elaborated, saying: “As a mother of a son I feel very much that it is challenging on how to raise that son because they will say things. I would like to believe and I hope I can be confident that he is not a follower of Andrew Tate – I’m pretty sure he isn’t.”
Kate further expressed her concern about the everyday influences shaping young boys, adding: “But comments are made genuinely on social media, on the playground and TikTok that they will repeat and are attacked for and then you find that they’re just trying to feel their way as well.”
It comes as Kate recently shared her late husband Derek Drapers last desires for her and their children. Derek, a former political adviser, passed away last January at 56 years old, after suffering severe and long-term complications from Covid.
“I can begin to see a new positivity for the three of us I am hoping. Where we don’t look back and remember: ‘This time last year we were doing this or that with Dad…’ but focus on the future,” she shared with Hello! magazine.
“Derek would want me to be grabbing life, because you learn how fast, and how easily, it can be snatched away. I know he’d be saying: ‘You’ve got to get out and live, because I can’t.'”
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV and ITVX