Kate Garraway reveals GMB moment that ‘instantly sparked’ vaping addiction and reveals what she thinks about ban

KATE Garraway has spoken astir a vaping addiction that was reignited for her aft a infinitesimal that happened connected Good Morning Britain.

The 57-year-old presenter decided to swap smoking cigarettes for vaping aft her lad Billy was calved successful 2009.

And past she ended up giving up altogether earlier heading into the I’m A Celebrity jungle backmost successful 2019.

But the GMB presenter said determination was really a infinitesimal connected the amusement that spurred her vape addiction connected again, making her ‘instantly addicted.’

Mum-of-two Kate was chatting to Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley connected Thursday greeting astir the upcoming single-use vape prohibition which volition travel into play next summer.

Kate admitted to “hating” herself for it, arsenic she told her co-stars: “The past happening I privation to bash is anyhow successful authorisation [vaping], due to the fact that I don’t now.

“But my acquisition was, aft Billy was born, I did fume earlier and I was craving going backmost to smoking [but] didn’t privation to.

“I thought [vaping] was amazing, due to the fact that it didn’t smell, astatine that constituent you could bash it anywhere, it indispensable person been similar smoking successful the 70s, you didn’t person to basal outside.

“Everybody said it was amended for you, and I did consciousness overmuch better. I got the nicotine hit.”

Kate past switched to chewing gums and sprays alternatively to fulfill her cravings, earlier going connected I’m A Celeb.

But successful 2023, her tendency to vape returned, arsenic Kate explained: “I deliberation we had immoderate props successful present oregon thing ridiculous, and I picked it up and I was instantly addicted, similar beyond anything!

“I couldn’t judge it and it made maine realise how, peculiarly those disposable ones, are truthful addictive.”

Kate shared that her precocious hubby Derek Draper “hated” smoking, arsenic she went on: “

“I tin retrieve Derek funnily capable saying, erstwhile I said, ‘Oh I deliberation this is good,’ due to the fact that helium hated smoking successful each forms, helium said, ‘It took 200 years to observe baccy was atrocious for you, these are going to beryllium atrocious for you.’

“They’re truthful casual to do, and they present specified a hit, truthful I don’t cognize that it’s a solution to prohibition the disposable ones, but they’re everywhere.’”

Kate’s vape confession comes aft she chatted to The Sun astir her archetypal wedding day without hubby Derek.

Kate appeared astatine this year's National Television Awards as she and her children Darcey and Billy collected the gong for Derek's Story, which followed the last twelvemonth of his life.

It came conscionable a time aft Kate marked what would person been her 20th wedding anniversary to the precocious governmental adviser.

She said: "I deliberation everyone says the archetypal twelvemonth is the hardest, I don't cognize if that would beryllium the case, but you bash person each the milestones that truly trigger memories and that 1 I recovered personally precise difficult.

"Because, whereas Easter, the kids' birthdays, we're precise bittersweet with him not with us, that would person been made each astir the full household erstwhile helium was alive, whereas successful this lawsuit it felt similar a precise idiosyncratic time betwixt him and I."