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I feel for her, her husband and the kids especially.
but bloody hell not a day goes by when she doesn’t put a price tag on his dignity and self respect.

this isn’t raising awareness, this is rubbernecking a man who’s been left a shell of his former self with 24/7 care to perform his most basic tasks.

she needs to stop putting all of this online when he’s living it daily.
am I being too judgemental here.

Derek was at Uni with my husband in Manchester in the 80s so I knew him before he became ‘Derek husband of Kate’. He was a larger than life character who didn’t deserve to have his final years played out like they were and it’s that that makes me judge Kate.

Anasnake said:

Derek has died

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Sometimes, like my Aunt who was very ill for a long time, this can be a relief.

Wish Kate and the families the very best to get through the next few weeks, it's never easy.

However if she continues to dine out on him after that, then my sympathies will be swiftly withdrawn.

ChocolateCakeYum said:

It’s the language of the statement. The man isn’t even cold in the ground yet and she’s implying she’s ready to make deals.

Also this is Kate Garrway, a woman with a very long and very varied media career that hasn’t gone away. Her ability to financially support her children is still there. She’s not suddenly destitute.

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The thing about Kate and the British media is she acts as though she's the first person to ever become a carer to a spouse. We dont need a book deal or whatever she has planned to carry on the woe is me act. She kept talking about how expensive it was but their combined salaries as well as being self employed meant they should have had life insurance to more than look after them when the worst happen. My aunts husband got ill and eventually died and she was left with 2 children under 10. Luckily he had the foresight to have a decent life insurance package (they werent rich just organised) that she could afford not to work for 2 years as well as keep the family home

Kate's not like the millions of people relying on statutory sick payments, carer benefits, non flexible jobs etc. Where are their OBEs?! Just shows u what a joke the honours system is.

The late Deborah James (bowel babe) used to irritate me at times, but she really revolutionised cancer knowledge and fundraised heavily and theres no doubt in my mind she has saved many lives even if she couldnt ultimately save her own. I'm yet to see the same level of altruism from kate, and in my eyes, she's heading down the route of Captain Tom's family

Truthfully I'm relieved for him - he spent years just lurching from one medical crisis to another, and I don't think that's any quality of life.

And I'm very sad for their children.

Rest in peace, Derek

It's not like she was an advocate for carers. Most carers do it on their own. Most carers have to give up their job, career, life. Most carers aren't supported and often feel isolated whereas Kate had media colleagues and the whole of Britain. In time she might date again. There are carers younger than her that will never date again, never have a romantic love or social life or even 1 friend.

Meanwhile Jonnie Irwin’s wife seems to be managing to just get on with it

Blodwin said:

This is a scandal that at some point is going to blow up

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The scandal I want to see 'blow up' is the scandal that someone put a chronically sick person on an 11hr long-haul flight to Mexico to undergo fuck knows what kind of therapy and then they had massive heart attack, had to be flown-back and then died. If it makes me a 'vile troll' to call Saint Garraway out on that then so be it.

lenny9 said:

rip Derek you suffered so much at a young age.
Hope your wife children and family find peace.

Let Kate do what she wants to in the future to provide for her children.
Be it a book, TV show, you don't have to read or watch.

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But we do - I have never once sought her or Derek out, but whenever I opened the media he was there. I saw pictures of him lying vulnerable in a hospital bed without clicking on anything. Headlines constantly giving me the most intimate of details about his care and wellbeing that no one should have been privy to because it was his PRIVATE business! And he couldn’t consent! It’s madness that people defend her or think she needs the money. She doesn’t, she earns in a couple of years what most other people will earn in a lifetime and he must have been six figures in his career. I think she is awful and I think some people on here should go and start a rave thread and leave everyone else to it.

Michael Schumacher. In regards to privacy. We know nothing. Yet we know every burp and fart from Derrick. She's an ego maniac.

I hope Derek is at peace, and I also hope that he had excellent palliative care during his final few weeks.

pepe le pew said:

I’d cut her some slack.

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I've cut slack for people my whole life. Always tried to see the best in them, been forgiving toward them, covered for them, made excuses for them, turned a blind eye. No more. In this year of 2024 I'm DONE. It gets you nowhere and worse, people take advange of your good nature for their own gain and agenda. NO MORE. I'm also sick to the back fucking teeth of self-serving victimhood. SICK. OF. IT.

Am I suppose to feel sorry for someone for not paying a massive tax bill but can find money to pay a publicist and an agent to plant positive stories in the media? Am I supposed to weep when out of pure self-interest someone plugs their book at work when they should be doing their piss-easy, overpaid, job and reporting the news headlines. I know it's hard to believe, but people are more interested in the ongoing catastrope in the Middle East than about Derek's health, or lack there of.

Sorry, but if you're going to flood the zone with 'Poor Derek' stories, followed by 'Poor Kate' stories, then people are going to make comments about you. Heaven forbid you maintain a dignified silence, with one or two fairly bland press-releases to keep the media wolves from the door. God forfend a few people take the piss out of someone who has the wealth and contacts to control every aspect of how their life is portrayed in the media.

Blue-collar, honest, hard-working people, are the ones who should be looked-after by a rota of friends, we're the ones that should be allowed to welch on our tax responsibilities. We're the ones who should have a team of publicists to paint us in the best light to the rest of the world. Cry me a river.

This is so random but I’ve always wanted to tell someone this. I had the displeasure of serving her in around 2015 and she was absolutely vile. Actually said ‘Do you know who I am?’ so I’ve never liked her.
Obviously very sad that her husband has died but she’s definitely not the doting widow she appears to be.

Both my parents died from horrible terminal diseases (I'm putting that out there because I have been through this), I was at the time and adult. I can understand what Kate said about "feeling unloved" at the very end, I would drive home crying from my mum's hospice bed because I thought she hated me, in reality she was dying and just didn't have the energy to respond.

This was some time ago and not in London, so I'm not up to date on care fees, but FOR THE SAKE OF HER EXPLOITED CHILDREN for £4k/week, couldn't she have put him in a nice care home, got lots of rest so she could do her well renumerated job, and taken the children for regular stress free visits with Daddy? They can do their homework in peace, without medical emergencies going off in their faces. Everyone can calmly go about their business knowing that Derek is well cared for. She would have saved thousands on converting the house.

I'm sure it's lovely that they got their picture taken cuddling up on Daddy's hospital bed and sold to multiple news outlets. But my Dad's illness was quite terrifying, even as an adult child. We were incredibly stressed and the only respite we got was when a nice volunteer dragged him off to the local hospice for a bath. Derek's illness was something of the "unknown", it was similar with my Dad. "How bad is it going to get?" "How far down is this going to take us?" "What's next?" Dealing with a terminally ill person is not easy.

They must have been terrified to come home from school, not knowing what to expect, what might have developed over the course of the day, or just the general day to day care - not have to eat your cereals staring at your dad's catheter bag?? It's very sad if she felt she had to be seen to be caring for him at home due to the whole world judging her, it's equally sad if she decided to keep him at home because that would facilitate the cameras and attention. If it were me, I would definitely protect my kids, put them first. I don't know what to say, the whole situation is very sad.

I just see a woman doing what she needs to do to survive. He isn't ever going to be able to give his consent by the sounds of it. I am sure he would want her to do what she has to do to keep her family together.

I can only think this is for the best, with a limited quality of life and presumably little hope of a full recovery, a heart attack was his body’s way of struggling. With medical intervention he’s had years longer than probably initially expected.
Still, I feel quite upset this morning by the news, young children losing a parent, his parents losing their son, Dereck has lost his life - a future.
Sad day.

RIP Derek

My heart goes out to Kate and the kids. I am in a very similar situation having lost my husband to long term ill health just before Xmas. We have teens too and it is not easy. It’s quite crass to point the finger and laugh at widows but I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy - it’s a raw, sometimes physical pain.

I send them my love to get through the next few days and weeks.

However I also understand why people have thought Kates actions previously were poor. I took several clips of my husband in various states. They were for personal moments- small videos for the kids or for special occasions like a birthday or a big achievement. They’ve never touched social media. Exploiting a loved one in that way does touch a nerve.

Additionally she doesn’t need to sell out his dying days. She has a good job and plenty of support. Some of us have to return to work almost immediately - as no life insurance company would touch my husband so I had to get back to work to keep my house!

So for the sake of her kids I hope she keeps his death and the following few weeks private. Teens take a lot of time to process grief - having it plastered in mainstream media may only cause long term issues later on down the line.

Looks like Elton has reworked Candle In The Wind Again


Goodbye Derek D

Though I never knew you at all

You had the grace to shit yourself

While Kate around you cared

Called up the Mail

And she whispered intimate details

They set you on the front page

And your dignity was lost for pay.



It seem to me you lived your latter life

So Kate could make kerching

Never knowing who to cling to

While she went cashing in

We feel like we all know you

Thanks to GMB and print

Now Kates cash cow has burned out

But at least she M.B.E.



COVID hit you hard

But poor Kate was the toughest role she played

Her books and tears made her a superstar

But your privacy was the price you paid

Even when you died

Kate the martyr’s star shone through

Thinking of a new book deal

And a documentary or two



It seem to me you lived your latter life

So Kate could make kerching

Never knowing who to cling to

While she went cashing in

We feel like we all know you

Thanks to GMB and print

Now Kates cash cow has burned out

But at least she M.B.E.

Prince fan 1999 said:

And why not? She's a single parent now,well has been for 4 years truth be told. She will need to financially support her children.

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lol. she is paid an absolute fortune by ITV for very little. And then the radio work on top. Trust me, no kids will starve.