She’s done an incredible job juggling her TV presenting job with supporting her family through husband Derek Draper’s ongoing Covid battle.
And Kate Garraway shared a hilarious clip to Instagram on Thursday revealing that homeschooling her 11-year-old son William, known as Billy, isn’t going quite to plan.
In the video, Billy is seen balancing on the sofa while skiving off from school work before chasing his amused mum out of the room with a lightsaber when she rumbles his cheeky plan to watch TV instead of study.
‘Don’t mess with an 11-year-old and a lightsaber!’ Kate Garraway shared a hilarious clip on Thursday revealing that homeschooling her son Billy, 11, isn’t going quite to plan
Billy is a natural behind the camera as he tells viewers that he won’t be doing any work and instead having his own fun.
He explains: ‘Today I’m just going to be climbing this… Don’t tell anyone, but I’m supposed to be online schooling but I’m watching TV, ok?’
Kate can then be heard asking: ‘Bill, are you actually doing any work?’ while the pre-teen climbs up onto the sofa.
However just a few seconds after assuring his mum he is working hard, from his precarious position on the sofa arm, Kate walks into the room and Billy’s rumbled.
Watch out mum! The TV presenter, 53, was hilariously chased out of the room by her cheeky son after finding him balancing on the sofa and watching TV instead of doing school work
A giggling Kate is then seen throwing two balls at her cheeky son before he jumps up from the floor with a light sabre to chase her out of the room.
Sharing her hilarious clip, Kate penned: ‘Where have you got to with home schooling in your house ? This is where we are!
‘Think it was me that learnt a lesson here – don’t mess with an 11 yr old with a light sabre!!!
‘So glad it’s #friday tomorrow join us on @gmb from 6 for all the latest #covid news, #love in #lockdown with @joeyessex AND a debate on #burntout parents! @benshephardofficial @charlottehawkins1 (sic)’
Future GMB host?: Billy is a natural behind the camera as he tells viewers that he won’t be doing any work and instead having his own fun
Doing his own thing: The pre-teen then climbs onto the sofa arm while Kate can be heard asking: ‘Bill, are you actually doing any work?’
Busted! However just seconds later Kate bursts into the room and throws two balls at Billy while they both bust out laughing
It comes after Kate revealed on Thursday’s GMB that she’s not seen ailing husband Derek Draper since Christmas as he continues his slow recovery from COVID-19.
The Good Morning Britain presenter has been a constant by Derek’s side following his hospitalisation with the potentially deadly virus in March 2020.
Kate revealed she hadn’t seen her husband in almost two months following a surge in infections – and explained her ITV employers had given her leave after she found herself struggling to cope.
The star has been unable to see Derek, 53, due to new restrictions introduced during the third lockdown, which bans any visitors on the ward where he is recovering.
He’s coming! Billy then picks up his light sabre and chases his doting mum out of the room
Keeping it real: Kate joked that the lesson learnt was to never ‘mess with an 11-year-old and his lightsabre’ (sic) in the caption to her funny post
Kate said: ‘I haven’t been able to see him [Derek], I haven’t seen him since Christmas. He’s back in a situation now looking at strangers in masks.
‘I think that’s a situation for everybody whose got someone they love in hospital at the moment it’s not unique to him.’
The mother-of-two explained she decided to take some time off from GMB after ‘not feeling well’ following a ‘long year’.
She added: ‘I’ve taken some time off; very kindly ITV have given me some time off, I hadn’t been feeling very well.
Supportive: It comes after Kate revealed she’s not been able to see her husband Derek Draper since Christmas while he continues to be in hospital (pictured December 2019)
‘I think it might have been one of those things where chickens had come home to roost after a long year that we’ve all had, haven’t we?
‘I took some holiday leave, at home because I know holidays are controversial, literally within the four walls of my home.
‘I had a lot of sleep and a bit of medicine and feeling much better.’
In September, Derek passed the grim milestone of becoming the longest patient battling coronavirus in hospital in the UK, with doctors telling Kate that Derek’s infection was the ‘highest they had seen in a patient who had lived’.
Sad: Reflecting on her last hospital visit with their two children Darcey, 14 and William, 11, (pictured in February 2019), Kate admitted the family reunion was ‘heightened with emotion’
Reflecting on her last hospital visit with their two children Darcey, 14 and William, 11 in December, she admitted the family reunion was ‘heightened with emotion’ because they saw how Derek had been ravaged by the virus.
‘It was very heightened with emotion, because he’s very changed,’ she told viewers earlier this month.
‘So all the routines that we’d normally do, it was one of those moments that it was so wonderful but also it amplified how sad everything was.
‘And how different it is. But it was still fantastic, and we’re very grateful to have had that opportunity.’