Cliff Notes – Kate Garraway inspired to seek health diagnosis after stint on Celebrity Traitors
- Kate Garraway is pursuing an ADHD diagnosis after reflecting on her experiences while filming The Celebrity Traitors, influenced by fellow contestant Cat Burns, who openly discussed her own diagnoses.
- The presenter expressed gratitude for the opportunity to engage with others and step outside her caregiving role, describing the experience as transformative and enjoyable.
- Despite being eliminated just before the final, Garraway praised the show for allowing her to have fun and connect with others after years of serious caregiving responsibilities.
Kate Garraway inspired to seek health diagnosis after stint on Celebrity Traitors
Kate Garraway has opened up about seeking a diagnosis after filming for The Celebrity Traitors (Picture: BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry)
Star of The Celebrity Traitors Kate Garraway is seeking an important diagnosis following her stint on the BBC show.
The Good Morning Britain presenter, 58, made it to an impressive point in the game as a Faithful, even if she did lack the strategy and theories to help her identify the Traitors.
Following her banishment this week, Kate has opened up about her experiences filming in the Scottish highlands and how a bond with one fellow player prompted her to explore a possible condition.
‘Talking to people like Cat about their music and about their life—she’s autistic and ADHD, and I’ve got that in my family,’ Kate began.
‘And actually, I’m in the process of an ADHD diagnosis myself.
‘In fact, I think it’s pretty clear I am.’
The broadcaster thinks it’s ‘pretty clear’ she has ADHD (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Singer Cat Burns has inspired Kate to explore the condition, having spoken openly about her own experiences (Picture: BBC)
‘So it’s fascinating to see how it manifested for her,’ she added to The Sun On Sunday.
Indeed, singer Cat Burns, 25, has spoken openly about living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), with which she was diagnosed in 2021, and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a diagnosis she received in 2023.
ADHD and autism are both neurodevelopmental disorders that can impact movement, language, memory, concentration, and social skills.
Pop star Cat, known for tunes such as the TikTok viral song Go, previously shared about her diagnoses: ‘I knew I had ADHD, but I still felt there was a difference in my brain that I wanted to understand and explore.
‘So once I got my autism diagnosis, that helped me understand myself and just how much I’ve had to do in order to get to where I am.’
She added to the BBC that she has ‘always felt inherently different from everybody else’, but she didn’t ‘have a name for it or know what it could have been’.
Kate was banished by her fellow players ahead of the final week (Picture: BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry)
She’s provided great Entertainment for viewers with her meme-worthy moments and shoddy theories (Picture: BBC)
‘As I got older, I really identified with the symptoms.’
Cat has proven herself to be a formidable Traitor this series, as well as a hit with viewers, as she and Alan Carr remain in the game after turning on one of their own, Jonathan Ross.
Alas, Kate fell at the hurdle just before the final but still had nothing but praise for her time in the castle.
Kate lost her husband, former lobbyist and political adviser Derek Draper, in January last year, for whom she cared for around the clock after he suffered severe complications from Covid.
Before leaving, she gave an emotional speech to the other players, telling them: ‘I’ve had a lot of years of being very serious and very sad, and you’ve all allowed me to play the most amazing game, be silly, and have fun.’
She has also since said that her late husband would have ‘absolutely loved’ watching her on Celebrity Traitors, as she bantered with the likes of Alan and failed miserably in trying to suss out who was working against her.
The final is now just days away… but will the Traitors or the Faithful triumph? (Picture: BBC/PA Wire)
Appearing on spin-off show Uncloaked, Kate, who married her late husband in 2005, further opened up about finding the whole process ‘transformative’.
‘It’s been lovely to meet people from different worlds,’ she began.
‘I mean, after sort of five, nearly six, years of caring for someone you love, your world goes very in, and you’re literally, every minute of the day, thinking, “What about the medication? What am I going to do? What happens next? Where do we need to go?”
‘And so it’s been looking in, and then after he passed away, very much looking in on the children, worried for them.
‘So to suddenly sort of be able to look out and just jump into other people’s lives, which I felt like I was doing with… I mean, people that you’ve respected for years was amazing. And to just play.’
She added: ‘And I think maybe the one advantage I had was that, even though it was so intense and I felt so pressured and I was so useless most of the time, is that when you sort of live genuinely with life or death for a long time, as we did, particularly for the first two years, it was daily.
‘Then you have got the ability to sort of enjoy something that is just a game. And so I think I almost took too much pleasure in it, because it was just such a sort of a bursting of a valve, really of tension. And it was lovely.’
Kate said she now feels ‘very lucky to have had that’ as someone who has been a carer, given the struggles millions of others are living with each day.
‘I just feel incredibly grateful to have been part of it all, because it’s been wonderful.’
The final of The Celebrity Traitors airs on Thursday, November 6, at 9pm on BBC One.
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