Susanna Reid has given a little insight into what the Good Morning Britain team think of the romance rumours between Kate Garraway and Liam Halligan.
Two years ago, Kate suffered the heartbreaking death of her husband Derek Draper. He died in January 2024 after a health battle that started when he contracted Covid-19 in 2020 and had a heart attack that left him bed bound. Kate was devastated by the death, but fans are hopeful that recent pics of her and former GB News economics and business editor Liam at a charity cycling event in May means she’s found love again.
4View 4 ImagesKate Garraway looks very cosy with rumoured partner Liam Halligan (right), as they posed with his cycling partner Serge Kogan
4View 4 ImagesKate on Good Morning Britain(Image: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
In an interview with The Sun, Kate’s GMB colleague Susanna said she didn’t know much about whether her friend was dating Liam, but that everyone at the show hopes she will be happy. Susanna said: “We all love Kate. And she is our Bridget Jones – we just love her. And whatever makes Kate happy.”
She added that she thinks Kate is “brilliant at everything she does”, whether it was conducting interviews, being on The Masked Singer as Spaghetti Bolognese or being “flabbergasted” on Celebrity Traitors. Susanna called Kate “100% brilliant”.
It’s been speculated that Kate has been “growing close” to Liam, who was a long-term friend of her and her husband. When asked about the nature of their relationship, Liam said: “It’s early days, we’ll see what happens.”
On Friday 8 May, Kate was seen supporting Liam and his cycling partner Serge Kogan as they prepared to cycle from London to Paris. All three posed for a pic before the Duchenne Dash, which raises money for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a condition Liam was diagnosed with as a child.
View 4 ImagesSusanna and Kate are on GMB together(Image: Instagram @susannareid100)
While Kate was married to Derek for 19 years and had two children with him, Liam has three children with his ex, BBC journalist Lucy Ward. A source told Mail Online : “It’s all very complicated, as you can imagine, for Kate who lost Derek not that long ago. She never thought she would be able to move on.
“But now she can see something. She is being calm but she does hope that she might be skipping down the road holding his hand at some point in the near future.”
In December 2025, Kate admitted to Jamie Laing that she was ready to find romance again. Speaking on his podcast, she said: “I wouldn’t like to think that I’d never had romantic love in my life again. I think that would be rather a sad way to go through life, wouldn’t it? But, no, I’m not there yet. I don’t know if anybody would want me.”
She then joked: “Talk to your mates, find out if any of their dads are single. That’s your task, Jamie.” But she did say that dating apps weren’t something she wanted to do.
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She explained: “I’m of the old school where you lived life, did things you loved and then met people along the way. But maybe that doesn’t happen any more.”
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