Kate Garraway’s Superman Baby And Derek Draper’s Four Leaf Clover
GMTV’s “lovely” Kate Garraway and husband Derek Draper would like to present her “BABY BOY BILLY” to OK! readers. But take care with the little love, because as Kate says:
“WE LOST BILLY’S HEARTBEAT FOR THREE MINUTES.”
Had it slipped own the back of the GMTV sofa? Had Derek Draper, Kate’s charming husband, blogged about it?
“At one point the baby was very active and wriggling around and slipped to the back of my back which meant the midwife suddenly couldn’t hear his heartbeat.”
So she moved the stethoscope to your back and found it..?
“It was only for three minutes but to me it felt like an hour and I just thought, oh God.”
But Billy Draper is special. Having survived that trauma, he now hears dad Derek Draper explains just how special Billy is:
“When he came out, the midwives were like: ‘Ooh, there’s a knot in the umbilical cord! Apparently it’s just finding a four leaf clover.”
Albeit a four leaf clover covered in blood with a baby on one end, an ex-Labour blogger in the middle and a GMTV presenter with legs akimbo at its root. Best not to pick it. Leave it to the Red Rag experts, like Derek:
“Anyway I cut the cord with scissors and kept them as a reminder.”
Posted: 26th, August 2009 | In: Celebrities Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
NADINE Dorries, Tory MP and subject of New Labour sexual fantasies, is writing for Grazia about her dreadful ordeal in being near the centre of a plot to smear the Tories.
Nadine Dorries has a Mid Beds constituency and a “massive majority”.
“Want to discredit a woman in politics?” asks Grazia. Well, not really. But we know someone who might. (Derek, you still there?)
How to do it: “Just claim she’s mad or having an affair.”
Cripes! Had only the Liberals thought of that in the days of Maggie Thatcher instead of debating her policies. But that’s shirt-lifters for you.
Posted: 22nd, April 2009 | In: Politicians Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Labour General Secretary Denies Involvement In Red Rag Smear Site
MORE news on the Labour smear allegations and plot.
The News of the World - press release below, (full story here) - alleges:
“Labour’s General Secretary Ray Collins chaired a secret meeting to create the Red Rag website now ensnared in the Smeargate scandal.”
The Sunday Times has allegations made against schools secretary Ed Balls.
Posted: 18th, April 2009 | In: Politicians Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Labour’s NEC Rejects Derek Draper And LabourList
DEREK Draper is on his way out. The LabourList blog is now so currupted it’s not even used by members of the Labour Praty for Labour news. As Guido notes, Labour talks to Ian Dale, the Tory blogger:
Labour’s general-secretary Ray Collins has thrown him overboard already. In an NEC announcement leaked to Iain Dale, rather than LabourList, the entertainment provided by Derek was brought to an end.
Posted: 15th, April 2009 | In: Politicians Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Derek Draper And McBride: “I Wasn’t Lying On Purpose”
MORE on Derek Draper and Damian McBride, and the quote that may serve as his epitaph: “I Wasn’t Lying On Purpose.” As told to Channel 4 news.
The emails are here.
Draper defends himself on LabourList:
Imagine if all your emails suddenly became available to people wanting to damage you.
Posted: 12th, April 2009 | In: Politicians, Tagline Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Revealed: The Emails That Did For ‘Brilliant’ Damian McBride
ANORAK has seen the emails telling of a Damian McBride’s plot to smear the Tories.
The damning verdict on Damian McBride is that the papers that lead with news of his departure refer to him not by name - “Key Brown side” (Observer; Sunday Times), “Attack Dog” (Mail) and “Key Brown advisor”.
The name is Damian McBride. And now he’s gone, we know who he is. The BBC publishes McBride’s resignation statement in full:
“I am shocked and appalled that, however they were obtained, these e-mails have been put into the public domain by Paul Staines.”
Anorak readers are well-versed in such apologies. And here McBride is quickly establishing a sympathetic background story.
When Derek Draper originally suggested using a website to compete with the kind of material seen regularly on the Guido Fawkes blog, he asked me in a personal capacity to write up some of the stories doing the rounds in Westminster.
Posted: 12th, April 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians Comments (13) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Order Order: Derek Draper’s Greatest Hit
DEREK Draper completely denies. Damien McBride says stuff. Tory Bear has a video:
Posted: 11th, April 2009 | In: Politicians Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
LabourList: Draper Is Back To Front
DEREK Draper tells Tim Ireland of his ambitiosn for LabourList, the Labour Party’s blog:
“I am building a site for 60 million people, not 60 bloggers” - Derek Draper
Does he have any idea how the web works? Are we to be a one-blog nation?
Wonder what Mandelson thinks?
Posted: 14th, January 2009 | In: Politicians Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Tory Bear Shits On Derek Draper
DEREK Draper is not just a GMTV’s host shag bunny:
There are 17 people in the blogsphere who matter and Derek Draper isn’t one of them. A while back there was talk of Mandy’s former assistant and lobbying sleazebag-in-chief leading Labour’s assault against the right-wing bloggers. Well Tory Bear can’t help but think this assault might well have begun. There was talk this week of a meeting of Draper’s attack squad that included some lefty bloggers…
Attacked by bloggers…
Posted: 9th, November 2008 | In: Twitterings Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
‘KATE Garraway is going through the milky dopey stage. Having just given birth to Darcey (female), she feels a bit like Im floating around and people have been talking to me and I havent heard what theyre saying.
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Birth has enabled Garraway to know what it is to be a GMTV viewer. Not that Kate has time to watch TV. Not since she is looking at Darcey completely obsessively.
Kate invites us to do likewise. And keen to empathise with the new mum, we look at the full-page shot of mother and daughter. We stare. We dare not blink. The world beyond the photo takes on an eerie stillness and then fades from thought and sight. Until all that remains is Darcey.
We hear crying. Our ears pick up the sound of Kates husband, the former Government PR Derek Draper. He wants to know why Kate is sobbing. I dont know! Im just crying, says Kate.
And we too feel like crying. A feeling that only grows as Kate relives the birth.
She is 3cm dilated. An episode of Six Feet Under is on the TV. Theres a hospital. Kate is ready to be immersed in a birthing pool. Now shes having an epidural. She sits on a birthing stool. Derek is on a chair behind her.
Hes crunching. Its toast. Oh marmalade is great, says Derek. Kate shouts: Stop eating your toast! Its really distracting. Derek also has squeezable honey, aromatherapy oils, facial spray and homeopathic arnica tablets.
Kates not wrong. Derek is distracting. For a moment we let our focus on Darcey slip. But not to worry we are soon presented with another shot of the child sitting on Kates lap.
And Kate is telling us that the whole labour lasted from midnight to 17 minutes past eight the following morning.
We begin to wonder if we can make it. Are there any drugs left? What about the honey?’
Posted: 4th, April 2006 | In: Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
‘IVE been reporting on major national and international issues on TV and radio for the past ten years and suddenly Im known for the Kate and Derek story, says Gloria de Piero.
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Gloria is GMTVs political correspondent - a billing to rival that of being Barbies maths teacher. Kate and Derek are GMTVs Kate Garraway and Derek Draper, former new labour spin doctor.
Kate and Derek are now a very a celebrity couple, inviting cameras to gaze at their marriage, Kates pregnancy bumps and the resulting child.
When she saw the wedding, Gloria thought: Gosh Im responsible for this!
It could have been different. Says Kate: …Gloria pitched a person to me who was the old Derek Draper. She said: He practically runs the Groucho Club, he runs Soho House, hes amazing.
But Kate was pleasantly surprised. Glorias charts and power point presentation had missed the mark. Kate says Derek was not like that at all. He was funny and clever…but I thought rather sad.
We cant comment on his state of being, only that thanks to Glorias matchmaking Derek is now married to Kate. And De Piero has achieved a special kind of fame…’
Posted: 31st, March 2006 | In: Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
‘HOW do you follow two weeks of Jordan and Peter Andre? With a bucket and a wet sponge?
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Or, having reached the apogee of love, seen the very best of what mankind has to offer, should you just give up and call the whole thing off?
Such a problem surely confronted OK!s makers of dreams come true as they wondered what to do next.
And then it struck them like a burst of fairy dust. They would rewind time. They would go back to a time and place when Jordan was single and Peter was an acorn without a cup. They would take a look at Kate Garraways wedding to Derek Draper.
This pair married on the very same day Jordan and Pete said We do to OK owner Richard Desmonds offer to showcase their entire event and sell invitations for the price of the magazine to anyone not invited to attend in person.
Now we go back and see what occurred when GMTV presenter Kate married Derek, former political aide to Peter Mandelson, in an intimate affair, before 220 invited guests and thousands more looking in via the newsstands.
When I work up this morning I felt fantastic but a bit strange, says Derek. I couldnt work out what I was feeling then I realised it was exactly how I used to feel on Christmas Eve when I was waiting to unwrap my presents.
But why let Derek have all the fun? Why cant we all have a go at unwrapping Kate?
So we take a look at Kates outfit, or wrapping. The outer layer was a stunning floor-length cloak. Peeling it away, we feast our eyes upon a corset and full shirk, both in white. For added intrigue, Kate carries a handbag and shoes.
Beneath all that… Well, Derek will by now have discovered the truth.
And we hope that unlike many of us who ask Santa for a bike but get something grandma knitted instead, Derek is not disappointed with the goods…’
Posted: 4th, October 2005 | In: Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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