Lorraine Kelly has vowed to continue working as long as she can and confessed that she has no plans to retire.
The 64-year-old television presenter has four decades of success in the limelight after debuting on TV-AM back in 1984.
Since then she has presented for ITV and STV including Good Morning Britain, This Morning, Daybreak and her own show Lorraine, which she has presented since 2010.
On Sunday, the star will receive a BAFTA Special Award to recognize her television career at the BAFTA Television Awards at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
And Lorraine has no plans to slow down, as she said. Mirror: ‘I don’t think I’ll ever retire. I look at people like Jane Goodall, who I interviewed recently. The amazing lady who works with chimpanzees is 90 years old.’
Lorraine Kelly has confirmed she will NEVER retire and vows to continue working as David Attenborough even if her ITV show is axed.
Lorraine has no plans to slow down, as she told The Mirror: “I don’t think I’ll ever retire.” I look at people like Jane Goodall, who I interviewed recently. The incredible lady who works with chimpanzees is 90 years old’
He continued: ‘I look at David Attenborough, I look at people like Michael Palin, and they still work very, very hard because they love what they do. They are still curious and want to learn things. I still have a lot to do and a lot of people to talk to.’
Lorraine has had her own ITV show since 2010 and confessed that even if the show is ever axed, she won’t be retiring completely.
‘MYEven if that happens, I won’t retire completely, I’ll always be writing or doing something for the radio. It’s a great milestone. 40 years is huge. Television can be very unforgiving and people can come and go.
Lorraine is nominated in the Daytime category at this year’s TV BAFTAs and will be attending with her husband Steve and daughter Rosie, 29, who announced her first pregnancy last month.
The star admitted that she will be excited and nervous and, although she is not a big fan of walking the red carpet, she is excited to wear a new dress that has been made for her.
Now queen of breakfast television, Lorraine was born in the working-class Gorbals area of Glasgow to a television repairman father.
She grew up in a house with an outside bathroom and no hot water, but she was bright and ambitious.
She turned down a place at university to start working on her local newspaper, The East Kilbride News, and then got a job as a researcher for the BBC.
Lorraine (pictured left with fellow TV-am presenter Mike Morris in 1990) was asked to do more after her Lockerbie report and later became the main presenter of Good Morning Britain.
Lorraine turned down a place at university to start working on her local newspaper, The East Kilbride News, and then got a job as a researcher for the BBC (pictured in 1997).
On Sunday, the star will receive a BAFTA Special Award to recognize her television career at the BAFTA Television Awards at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
Lorraine also revealed that she is looking forward to becoming a grandmother after her daughter Rosie, 29, announced her first pregnancy last month (pictured together in May 2021).
Last month, Lorraine revealed what her first grandchild will call her as she broke her silence on the happy news (Rosie pictured).
When she heard of plans for a new program called the “breakfast show”, she applied to TV-am to be part of its programming and was appointed the programme’s Scotland correspondent in 1984.
It was Lorraine’s candid reporting on the Lockerbie tragedy 30 years ago that caught the attention of TV-am’s bigwigs.
She was the first television reporter to arrive on the scene in December 1988, when the transatlantic Pan-Am flight from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a midair bomb and landed in the small Scottish town, killing 243 passengers, 16 crew and 11 people on board. the land.
Since then, he has reported on the king’s coronation and interviewed prime ministers, royalty and Hollywood stars.
Last month, Lorraine revealed what her first grandchild will call her as she broke her silence on the happy news.
Celebrating during her ITV show, Lorraine, 64, exclaimed: ‘I’m going to be a grandmother! How exciting is that? Granny Smith because, you know, my married name is Smith!
‘So I’m Grandma Smith! We’re all so excited, she’s huge and wonderful and yeah…she just cheered everyone up, which is just great!
‘Thank you to everyone who messaged me, it was very kind of you… thank you so much, it means a lot, it means a lot!’
