Kate Garraway thanks Myleene Klass for 'amazing' support after Derek Draper's death

Watch: Kate Garraway shares Myleene Klass's 'amazing' support since Derek Draper's death

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Kate Garraway has opened up on how Myleene Klass has supported her through becoming a single parent, saying: "Myleene is the fiercest mother I know".

Good Morning Britain host Garraway, whose husband Derek Draper died in January, welcomed Klass to the ITV1 breakfast show and shared "she looks after me all the time", adding: "I see her most days."

Klass also said that she thought this year's I'm A Celebrity cast had been given an easy ride compared to the gruelling all stars series that she won.

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Klass has spoken about the importance of single mothers supporting each other as her close friend Garraway shared how she had been helping her adjust to life on her own with her two children following husband Derek Draper's death.

Klass, who has two daughters from her marriage to Graham Quinn, was a single parent until she met current partner Simon Motson who she shares a son with.

Talking about her charity work for Save the Children on Thursday's Good Morning Britain, she said: "There's so much power in being a mother, but you can't do it alone."

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Host Garraway said: "Myleene is the fiercest mother I know. In the best possible sense. She looks after me all the time. It's everything from, my daughter's having an 18th birthday party, I haven't organised anything, can you help me, she arrives with glitter and balloons, to oh my god I'm having a genuine medical crisis. You are amazing to me Myleene and people don't know this, but she is. I see her most days, and you're amazing."

Klass told her: "We're in it together."

The former Hear'Say singer continued: "I do believe in the solidarity of women standing together. I've got two daughters, I was a single mum for a long time, and I couldn't have done it without my network, I couldn't have done it alone, and I don't want my children to see that you have to do it alone. So any opportunity that we can come together and support each other."

Presenter Richard Madeley asked her: "How did you find being a single mum?"

She replied: "In many ways, you can often be doing it alone for a long time, people find themselves in those situations in many guises. But ultimately you find your community.

"Now, I would say that it's been the making of me, and my children. I would absolutely say that. Because I've been able to raise my children and guide them in a way that has been great for them. My daughter did two interviews for Oxford yesterday. In my head she's still a baby. Ava's 17, Hero's 13 and my son is five, but in my head she's my baby."

Madeley said of his own daughter Chloe Madeley, who split from husband James Haskell last year just after their daughter's first birthday: "My baby's 37."

Klass told him: "I see your baby all the time walking around the park."

Madeley added: "She's a single mum now and she's doing great."

Klass said: "There's a real stigma around single parents, there always has been, but it can be an empowering thing if you have the right people around you and it can be a very lonely thing if you have the wrong people, so you just pull up your big pants, your mum pants and crack on."

Garraway, whose husband Draper died in January, said: "I'm sadly a single mum now. I'm here for you. You've been amazing."

Klass told her: "Yeah but you're not alone. I'm here for you."

What did Myleene Klass say about I'm A Celebrity's 'easy ride'?

Klass also spoke about this year's I'm A Celebrity cast, claiming they had an easier ride than she had done in last year's all stars series, which she won.

Asked about the recent series which was won by Danny Jones, Klass — who first took part in the show in 2006 — said of her 2023 experience: "Are you joking — I had to eat like 60 mouse tails and they gave the Reverend one and there was this big deal about it.

"Those mice tails, they took my brace out, I'm still paying the dentistry bills on them. They did a sterling job, there's no doubt about it, but they got a slightly easier ride.

"They put them at the top of skyscrapers, but for us I felt like I was jumping out of a plane, we were at the top of the equivalent of 20 skyscrapers. They upped the ante for the all stars. I had to go through 60 mice tails."

She also hinted at forthcoming revelations about her time in Pop Idol group Hear'Say as Madeley asked her whether it was true that she had some explosive diaries about her pop career days.

Klass said of the diaries: "Yesterday they were taken out of the safe, it was like the Ark of the Covenant, I dusted them down. All I will say is, they're on the move, Richard."

Good Morning Britain airs on ITV1 at 6am on weekdays.