Lorraine Kelly has been a mainstay on TV screens for four decades with ITV planning to celebrate the milestone with a one-hour special on Wednesday evening.
Friends at ITV laud Lorraine Kelly as friendly, down-to-earth and inquisitive, which they say accounts for her forty-year tenure on television.
Before transitioning to television, she dedicated five years to newspaper journalism, honing a craft she continues to excel at behind her seemingly casual conversations on the couch. The Scottish star was all set for university to study English and Russian, but was halted when she saw an advert in the East Kilbride News.
When a boss there told her she was "never going to make it on television" due to her accent, she wasn't discouraged and applied for a new morning ITV show called TV-am. Just a fortnight before her scheduled return, she received a devastating phone call saying they'd found someone else. Lorraine continued: "I'd just got this massive mortgage and this tiny baby. The bottom just dropped out my world. What do I do now?"
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