Lorraine Kelly’s heartbreak over not being able to see her daughter Rosie after she returned to UK and had to isolate
LORRAINE Kelly has opened up on her sheer emotions after daughter Rosie returned to the UK amid the coronavirus pandemic straight into lockdown - and without a hug from her mum.
The Scottish presenter, who fronts her own show on ITV, last saw the 25-year-old in December when she visited from Singapore for their Christmas celebrations.
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The next time she made the trip back home was amid the coronavirus pandemic, at a time when she had already decided to return to the UK for good, yet strict lockdown rules meant she went straight into quarantine.
So as not to put her family under unnecessary extra risk from the airborne disease, Rosie stayed at her mum's London flat, which she uses while filming the ITV breakfast show.
Speaking on the prolonged wait to hold her daughter, Lorraine, 60, told MailOnline: "We’d been in touch, we’d been doing Zoom calls, but there’s nothing like being able to give your child a cuddle.
"Every mother will know what I’m saying – there’s just nothing like the smell of your child’s hair.
"Rosie always smells so good.
"I’m trying not to be too teary, because I don’t want to embarrass her, but being able to hold her after all that time was just fantastic."
Rosie is Lorraine's only child with husband Steve, who went out to visit her shortly before the pandemic struck.
Speaking of their family reunion, Rosie told the same publication: "Being able to finally hug Mum was lovely but a bit surreal."
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The pair had an emotion-packed natter on Lorraine's series in April, during which the telly favourite broke down in tears.
She at the end of their live chat on Good Morning Britain today and later told viewers: "I feel like she is safer there then she would be here."
She told her daughter directly: "I sort of think that you are in one of the safest places in the world, with the measures that are happening."
Rosie added: "Yes the government are taking it really seriously they are doing it now, so they don’t have to do it later and it gets worse."