Kate Garraway and Derek Draper dance in throwback video after she discussed his COVID-19 battle

Kate Garraway and husband Derek Draper looked smitten as they danced together in a throwback video, shared hours after she gave an emotional update on his COVID-19 battle.  

Earlier in the day, the presenter, 53, became overcome with emotion during Friday’s Good Morning Britain as she admitted she ‘doesn’t know’ if Derek, 52, can recover from the ‘extraordinary damage’ COVID-19 has inflicted on his body.

In a video shared by Myleene Klass in support of Kate, Derek and her family, the couple can be seen dancing to a rendition of Elvis Presley’s Suspicious Minds.

Kate looks radiant in a shimmering sequin dress as she and Derek show off their dance moves while staring into one another’s eyes.

As the pair smile at one another, Kate and Derek embrace as they continue to move to the music.    

Myleene captioned the video: ‘Your interview had me in tears. You are being so incredibly brave. 

‘Till we do this again, you and Derek burning up the dance floor…me and Sim lining up the drinks.’

The video comes after Kate broke down in tears as she revealed critically-ill husband Derek thanked her for ‘saving his life’ before he slipped into a coma during his 10-week battle with coronavirus.  

Kate said: ‘Well there will be tears, I’ll try to keep them down, he’s still with us, he has fought the most extraordinary battle, the fact that he’s still here and holding on. 

‘I am so grateful that he’s still here, and I’ve got the option of praying while others have lost that. He’s very, very sick and as time goes on, it’s a virus, it’s like a computer virus, the doctors manage one but there seems to be a flicker of hope and other things emerge and they’re fighting that.   

‘It has affected him from the top of his head to the tip of his toes. 

She added: ‘He is now COVID free, he has tested negative, the fight with the virus is over but it’s wreaked extraordinary damage on his body and we don’t know if he can recover from that. 

Kate spoke for the first time about Derek’s initial admission to hospital in March, revealing the last thing he said to her before he was put in a medically-induced coma, was ‘I love you, you saved my life.’     

She said: ‘In that first week it looked like he was rallying. But then he was very bad, he couldn’t really speak to me, he could shout things to me on speakerphone. 

‘He was begging me, he said “I can’t take this, I feel like I’m suffocating”, he said “please let them put me in a coma” and they didn’t want to do that. On Sunday they said “we’re going to put him in a coma as overnight we think we have to do that.”‘

 ‘He said: “I love you, I’m sorry I have to leave you, you’ve saved my life”. I think he thought I had asked the doctors to put in him in a coma. He said “being married to you, the children, you saved my life”.’   

Kate went on to say Derek did not have any underlying health conditions and doctors were unable to explain why the virus had affected him in the way it had. 

Kate said: ‘He just got it very, very, very badly and we don’t know why. When you speak to the doctors, there’s so many things they tell you about to help you understand what he’s going through. 

‘There’s various markers that tell you how much infection is in his body when it was really raging. 

‘At one point, he was being transferred to a different hospital, there’s an enzyme the liver produces which goes up when you’re fighting infection, healthy it would be under 10, if it goes up to 200 then you’re really sick. 

‘When Derek was admitted to the second hospital, he was 1286. He was off the scale with infection. 

‘His lungs were solid and nobody thought he’d live. So it’s just extraordinary he’s still here.

‘I’m so proud of him and most of all, the doctors and nurses around him are just incredible. They’re incredible with what they’ve done, with a disease they’re learning about every day.’   

Kate also moved host Ben Shephard to tears as she explained the impact Derek’s illness was having on his beloved children Darcey, 14, and William, 10. 

She said: ‘I need to make them feel safe, they’ve lost their dad for the time being, they have been amazing. They have both been doing anything to find little moments of joy, so we can still smile. Derek says you’ve got to laugh, you’ve got to be silly.’  

‘Billy is going back to school on Monday, he said ‘I don’t want to go back to school before dad’s better’.’

‘Darcey has been on Amazon trying to get him some cool t-shirts. He’s going back on Monday and that is what we have to do now. I’ve got to give them some life. Darcey and I will be home tutoring. It’s carrying on with life when life isn’t certain.’   

Kate was inundated with support from fans who lauded her bravery for speaking openly about Derek’s condition on television, with GMB host Susanna Reid, Laura Tobin, Lorraine Kelly and Georgia Toffolo tweeting in support of her.  

Back in April it was revealed that Derek had been hospitalised with COVID-19 while Kate and their children isolated at home after she displayed ‘mild symptoms.’ 

Just days before, the presenter voiced her fears on Good Morning Britain after meeting with Prince Charles before he tested positive for coronavirus.

She spoke about their encounter live on air, revealing that the pair had got ‘relatively close’ at the Prince’s Trust Awards on March 11.

Kate’s spokesperson told MailOnline: ‘Kate’s husband, Derek Draper, has been taken to hospital and is being treated in intensive care with a confirmed case of COVID-19.

He was admitted on Monday and has since tested positive for the virus.  

‘Kate, hasn’t been tested, however she has also been displaying mild symptoms, also since Monday, and as a result has been on strict isolation with her children at home.’ 

Shortly after Kate met Prince Charles on March 11, GMB played footage of the two together.

The presenter pointed out: ‘We’re relatively close there, as indeed were all the other people that were involved in that.

Kate has kept followers updated throughout Derek’s ongoing battle, taking part in the weekly Clap For Carers celebration honouring those on the frontline.