Susanna Reid admits she drinks nine coffees every morning to get through Good Morning Britain-Rachael O'Connor-Entertainment – Metro

A lot of us would probably say we wouldn’t be able to get through the day without coffee, but Susanna Reid has taken it to another level.

The Good Morning Britain presenter has spent years getting up at unsociable hours to host the ITV morning news show, which starts at 6am throughout the week.

And with an absolutely painful 3.45am alarm she must adhere to each morning to get to the studio on time, it’s no wonder Susanna needs caffeine to keep her going.

However the sheer amount of it would cause even the biggest coffee lover to do a double take, as she has now revealed she gets through nine cups a morning.

‘When you get up that early you drink a lot of coffee,’ host Lorraine Kelly began. ‘How many cups of coffee would you be drinking?’

‘Well I thought it was eight,’ Susanna admitted – already an insane number.

Susanna has an absolutely painful 3.45am alarm to be in the studio on time to host the three-hour morning news show (Picture: ITV/Shutterstock)

‘But this morning Harry, in the green room, and Mark who was doing my coffee, he told me it was nine.

Lorraine absolutely lost it as she gasped and replied in a shocked voice: ‘NINE? NINE?’

GMB host Susanne went on to clarify that she doesn’t drink a full mug and it’s more like ‘a couple of sips,’ but the ‘brilliant’ green room staff just ‘keep them coming.’

The news broadcaster added that she can ‘never’ have caffeine after midday, as if she does there will be no chance of her getting to sleep later that evening.

She added that she has been getting up to a 3.45am alarm ‘for 20 years, on and off,’ so has her sleeping schedule down pat.

Lorraine had an incredible reaction to Susanna’s admission (Picture: ITV)

Susanna says she ‘thought’ she had eight coffees a morning but has been advised it is actually nine (Picture: ITV)

Susanna has to be alert while hosting the morning news show, as with live TV you’re kept on your feet – as seen just last week when she had to offer a swift apology when a guest swore live on air.

Regular guest Kevin Maguire had grown frustrated at fellow guest and political journalist Andrew Piece as the pair discussed the government’s controversial planned anti-strike laws – and said: ‘What you say about minimum standards is b*llocks.’

Susanna audibly gasped at the expletive as he quickly explained that he was actually ‘quoting a European trade leader’.

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She then interjected and said: ‘‘Sorry, we can’t get past Ofcom regulations just because you’re quoting someone else, so an apology to people who were offended by that.’

Lorraine airs weekdays from 9am on ITV

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