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Kate Garraway was left blushing after she suffered an on-air blunder live on Good Morning Britain this morning.
The 56-year-old GMB presenter had to scramble for her phone while apologising profusely as it began ringing and interrupted a discussion about climate protestors.
She was sat separately from presenters Susanna Reid and Ben Shephard as they discussed the Just Stop Oil protest which took place at Wimbledon yesterday, which saw a match disrupted.
In the midst of the serious debate a phone could be heard ringing as Susanna, 52, said: "Oh we've got a musical soundtrack!"
"So sorry I don't know what happened," Kate said as Susanna joked: "It's Kate Garraway's protest."
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As the phone continued to ring in Kate's hand, she scrambled to try and get the noise to stop as the presenter said: "Oh my God it's going again! I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry."
A guest then joked: "That person obviously wants to get in on the conversation."
Kate Garraway scrambled for her phone as it began ringing on air (ITV)As a baffled Kate, who's husband Derek was recently rushed back to hospital, added: "It's on silent as well!"
After the debate, GMB star Ben, 48, couldn't resist bringing up the gaffe as he joked: "Still talking about phone-gate by the way."
Kate, who recently received her MBE from Prince William, then went on to explain the noise was coming from a "memory video" of her god-daughter Tabby showing a "lovely selection of photos which I couldn't turn down".
The crew then joined in on the joke as the studio played the ringtone audio as Kate joked they were "gaslighting" her.
"Really sorry, shall I just go," she then added.
Elsewhere in the show, Kate shared her emotional last conversation with Fiona Phillips which took place before her Alzheimer's diagnosis was announced in a brave interview with the Mirror.
Kate was left red-faced by the GMB blunderFollowing the announcement, Kate reflected on the final conversation she had with Fiona - which focused on her husband Derek Draper.
Derek's life changed after he contracted Covid-19 at the start of lockdown and has been under constant care ever since.
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Speaking on Thursday's Good Morning Britain, Kate said: "The last conversation I had with her, which was only a few weeks ago, what she was doing was talking to me about Derek – full of love for Derek, very close to Derek – and thinking about me dealing with Derek.
"Of course, I now think that she must have had in her mind that she would come to a place where Martin and her sons were going to be taking care of her."
She added: "It makes me feel emotional thinking about [how] that must have been going through her mind and still is."
Fiona was diagnosed around 18 months ago with the disease, which has affected her mother, father, grandparents and uncle.
"It’s something I might have thought I’d get at 80”, she told the Mirror. "But I was still only 61 years old. “I felt more angry than anything else because this disease has already impacted my life in so many ways; my poor mum was crippled with it, then my dad, my grandparents, my uncle. It just keeps coming back for us."