When did Kate Garraway and Derek Draper get married?
DEREK Draper and Kate Garraway's relationship has been well documented given his battle with coronavirus since March 2020.
In February 2022 the couple released their new documentary Caring For Derek - a follow-up to Kate’s award-winning Finding Derek
How did Kate Garraway and Derek Draper meet?
Kate Garraway and Derek Draper first met in 2004.
They were introduced by a mutual friend, former GMTV political editor Gloria De Piero.
Gloria had originally asked Kate whether she had any single friends that would like to meet Derek.
Kate admitted that it took a while for an attraction to happen.
Speaking to The Times about about that moment, Kate said: "Derek arrived thinking it was a date and that I was being incredibly cool by ignoring him.
"He asked me out, but the day of our date called to say he had a clash.
"He’d promised to serve wine at an amateur watercolour painting exhibition at his church. I really thought it was a wind-up.
"But I turned up and he was indeed serving wine to the congregation in a salmon-pink jumper."
When did Kate and Derek get married?
The couple wed married in 2005 after meeting the year before through a mutual friend.
When she appeared on I'm A Celeb, she insisted on wearing her wedding ring despite the rule banning jewellery in camp.
Reportedly she hasn't taken the ring off for a day since their wedding.
After her stint on the show, Derek romantically proposed for a second time after they were reunited.
They were due to have a second wedding after 15 years of marriage, but his battle with coronavirus called those plans to a halt.
Kate told Fabulous: “We’d planned the wedding for the end of summer, but I don’t suppose we’ll be booking anything now because we don’t really know what we can do," when speaking of Derek's illness.
Do Kate and Derek have children?
The couple share two children.
They have a 17-year-old daughter called Darcey, who was born on March 10, 2006.
The couple also have an 12-year-old son called William, known as 'Billy', who was born on July 28, 2009.
Have Kate or Derek been married before?
Kate was married to Ian Rumsey from 1998-2002.
He was formerly her boss at ITV Meridian.
Kate claimed he'd had an affair with a younger TV presenter and that was why they divorced, though Ian has always denied these claims.
A source told the Mirror at the time: "She had her suspicions because he was going out and staying away a lot.
"He always denied anything was going on but Kate still had nagging doubts - call it women's intuition - that something was not right."
Derek hasn't been married to anyone other than Kate.