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Lorraine Kelly regrets not having more children after starting family later in life
Lorraine has one daughter, Rosie (Picture: Karwai Tang/WireImage)
Lorraine Kelly’s biggest regret is not having more children.
The 61-year-old television presenter has one daughter, Rosie, with her husband Steve Smith, a TV cameraman.
The presenter wishes she had given Rosie some siblings, but it wasn’t possible because she got pregnant with Rosie later in life.
When asked by BANG Showbiz what her biggest regret in life is, Lorraine – who has worked on the ITV breakfast line-up in some form since 1984 – said: ‘Probably not having more kids. You know, I’d have loved to have more kids, but it just wasn’t for me.
‘By the time we sort of thought about it I was in my late 40s. We were very lucky to have one very happy girl, so that was that.’
Lorraine suffered a miscarriage when Rosie was five, and she previously said: ‘It’s still there, because you still think that baby would’ve been 21… You’re sort of mourning for something that didn’t happen and that’s very sad to do.’
Lorraine and Steve welcomed Rosie in 1995 (Picture: Karwai Tang/WireImage)
Her 26-year-old daughter Rosie – a journalist who before the coronavirus pandemic lived in Singapore – was born in 1995.
Her relocation back to the UK allowed the mother-daughter duo to start collaborating together on projects, and now they are working on a podcast together, called What If?, which sees the mother-daughter duo quizzing celebrities about ‘their lives, and their career, their hopes and their dreams’.
Regrets are a big theme in Lorraine’s podcast as each episode ends with guests – which have included RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Michelle Visage, comedian Eddie Izzard and astronaut Tim Peake, among many others – being asked what their biggest regrets, fails and wins are throughout their otherwise successful careers.
The pair are doing a podcast together (Picture: Karwai Tang/WireImage)
Upcoming guests include the explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, who the pair found out was in the running to be James Bond after Sir Sean Connery’s tenure as 007 was over.
Lorraine said her ‘biggest win’ was her ‘supportive’ family; namechecking her husband Steve, Rosie and her border collie and Rosie’s new pup Ruby and expressing gratitude for ‘having a really supportive family because I couldn’t do what I do without’ them.
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For her ‘biggest fail’, the ITV star scolded herself for ‘not keeping up with her languages’ and said being able to learn any she wanted instantly would be her dream superpower.
She explained: ‘I would want my superpower to be able to understand everybody in whatever language they were speaking. Can you imagine how amazing the world would be if we could all speak to each other in another language, the barriers would be broken down, right?’
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