TELLY’S Lorraine Kelly has said she is home from hospital and recovering after undergoing “preventative” surgery to remove her ovaries.
The 65-year-old ITV host had the keyhole surgery on Saturday after not “feeling all that well for a little while”.
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She assured her Instagram followers that she was going to be “totally fine” and would see them “really soon”.
In a follow-up post yesterday, she said she had the surgery at Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot, Berks., and was back home to recover.
Thanking medical staff for their help, she wrote: “Huge thanks to these kind, caring, gorgeous professionals who took care of me at Heatherwood Hospital – back home now and following doctors’ orders to rest up – My surgeon, Mr Ahmed Rafaat, has been so reassuring throughout, and I can’t thank the whole team enough.”
A number of fellow celebrities left comments of support on her post, including Scottish cycling campion Sir Chris Hoy and fellow hosts Katie Piper and Emma Willis.
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Sir Chris said: “Get well soon Lorraine.”
Piper wrote: “Glad you are home. Rest up.”
Willis said: “Lots of love Lorraine.”
Kelly celebrated her 40th year in television in 2024 with a special episode of her daytime talk show Lorraine, which she has featured on since 2010.
She began her journalism career on the East Kilbride News, turning down a university place to study English and Russian to join the newspaper, before joining BBC Scotland as a researcher in 1983.
In 1984, she joined TV-am as an on-screen reporter covering Scottish news and in 1990 she began her presenting career on Good Morning Britain, before getting her own show.
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