Liam Halligan, Kate Garraway’s new partner, opened up about their budding romance and revealed there is a ‘definite spark’
Kate Garraway’s new partner, Liam Halligan, has candidly shed light on their “spark” after they were pictured together for the first time.
The Good Morning Britain presenter, 59, was linked to the economist last month, following the death of her late husband, Derek Draper, in 2024.
The political commentator, 57, was later questioned about their budding romance during an appearance on Mark Dolan’s TalkTV show, teasing: “It’s early days, we’ll see what happens.”
In a new article, titled The Truth About Kate Garraway and Me, the keen cyclist opened up about the relationship and his “surprise” to be named in showbiz sections, having spent much of his career discussing economics.
“As a sandwich-board man of the business pages, I’m ‘flabbergasted’ to be in the showbiz sections,” he wrote in the Spectator. “Nobody wanted to know about my warnings of market meltdown but reporters now follow me around, asking: ‘How’s it going with Kate?’
“Kate Garraway and I are from different parts of the media but have much in common – not least a shared sense of humour. Though it’s early days, there’s a definite spark between us. But can she ride a tandem?”
The pair have been friends for years, but are said to have grown closer earlier this year. It is said to be Kate’s first romance following Derek’s death.
“I’ve known Kate for a long time. I knew her late husband Derek, of course I did, I was a correspondent for the Financial Times in the late nineties,” Liam said last month.
“In recent years for different reasons we’ve both ended up single, against our wishes I should say. And so, in recent weeks and months Kate and I have become good friends. We were reintroduced having known each other back in the day by mutual friends.”
Kate recently touched on the idea of dating again following her heartache, in a chat with Jamie Laing on his Great Company podcast.
The Celebrity Traitors star, who shares two children with her late husband, added: “I wouldn’t like to think that I’d never had romantic love in my life again. I think that would be rather a sad way to go through life wouldn’t it?
“But, no, I’m not there yet. I don’t know if anybody would want me.”
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