Lorraine Kelly on TV success: 'People feel they can approach me'

Lorraine Kelly has said that "familiarity" is behind her long-running TV career.

The popular ITV1 daytime host spoke to Good Housekeeping about her time in the industry and ambitions for the future.



Kelly said of her success: "I think it's familiarity. Breakfast television is unique - it's one of the few shows where you can be yourself, which I very much am! So I feel privileged to be able to do that.

"And I get a lot of folks talking to me when I'm out and about - they feel they can approach me, which is probably one of the reasons I'm still there."



On what else she would like to do, Kelly said: "I'd love to do more documentaries and travel shows that focus on the lives of women in different cultures. I'd like to do more travel writing."

However, the 52-year-old added: "Much as I like talking to the likes of Colin Firth on television, the highlight of my week could be taking [daughter] Rosie on the school run or walking our dog Rocky on the beach with [husband] Steve."

Kelly was awarded an OBE for services to charity and the armed forces in the recent New Year's Honours list. Speaking on her breakfast show this week, she said: "It's mad, isn't it? It feels very grown up. I feel very unworthy."

The full interview appears in the February issue of Good Housekeeping, on sale today [January 5].