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Good Morning Britain’s Kate Garraway and family were supported by a string of famous faces and loved ones on Friday as they said their final goodbyes to Derek Draper.
The ITV host was joined by her and Derek’s two kids Darcey, 17 and Billy, 14, as the late dad’s daughter bravely helped carry his coffin into the church at the Church of St Mary The Virgin in Primrose Hill – the same place Kate and Derek got married.
A string of famous faces including Kate’s ITV co-stars were also in attendance to pay their respects to Derek who died on January 5, aged 56, almost four years after being admitted to hospital with Covid as he had a gruelling battle with health complications.
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Also there in support was an unlikely global icon, as Elton John was snapped arriving for Derek’s funeral on Friday with Kate previously explaining how he became a “huge friend” to both her and her late husband.
Elton previously dedicated Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me to Kate and Derek at The O2 Arena during his Farewell tour according to reports in the Mirror. Speaking about their friendship, Kate said: “I think Elton has been a huge friend to me. I always feel like it’s a bit arrogant to say he’s a friend of mine, because… he’s Elton! But he’s been a massive friend, and he had a friend that was very sick in the US when Derek got sick.”
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“And so we sort of swapped thoughts,” she said on Smooth Radio. “And he was trying to be helpful because the US were playing things very differently to we were back here, so we were trying to swap information. And then along the way he said, ‘wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had as a goal coming to see me in concert when I can restart my tour?'”
Speaking about the moment Elton dedicated a song to them, Kate added: “‘Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me’, which just feels like such an appropriate song for the battle that we’ve all been going through and couldn’t have been written better for that particular moment. And Derek went to bed that night and said, ‘I won’t let the sun go down on me’. And then we were all crying all over again.”
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Kate’s ITV co-stars also turned up to the funeral on Friday as she paid tribute to her late husband including Ben Shephard, Susanna Reid, Charlotte Hawkins and Richard Arnold. GMB weather presenters Laura Tobin and Alex Beresford were also at the service.
The mum-of-two announced her husband’s death on Instagram in the new year, saying: “As some of you may know he has been critically ill following a cardiac arrest in early December which, because of the damage inflicted by Covid in March 2020, led to further complications.
“Derek was surrounded by his family in his final days and I was by his side holding his hand throughout the last long hours and when he passed.”
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