Kate Garraway welcomes baby boy

Kate Garraway welcomes baby boy
Kate Garraway welcomes baby boy (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

GMTV's Kate Garraway has given birth to a baby boy. The baby was named William Garraway Draper and weighed 7lb 12oz, following a natural birth on Tuesday evening, a statement from GMTV said. Kate, 42, and husband Derek Draper said: "We are in seventh heaven and keep grinning from ear to ear. Billy is so beautiful." The couple - who already have a three-year-old daughter, Darcey, who has been unable to visit her brother in hospital due to swine flu precautions which do not permit children to visit newborn babies - added: "We can't wait to get home so that Darcey can meet her new little brother." The GMTV statement added: "Mother and son are in excellent health." Kate, who will return to presenting duties in the autumn, went on maternity leave earlier this month. She announced she was pregnant with her second child in January. In an interview with the GMTV website, Kate previously said she had suffered morning sickness during the first half of the pregnancy, frequently running out of the studio to throw up during advertising breaks. She also disclosed an unusual craving. "I had this one urge to chew on a towel or something," she said.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.