Kate Garraway | TV host feared for job after alarm clock fiasco

Most employees will be late to work at least once in their careers. Whether it’s due to traffic on the roads, rail disruptions or missing a wake-up alarm, sometimes employees are late to work and this can cause issues at work.

Yesterday morning, Good Morning Britain TV host Kate Garraway said she was terrified that she would lose her job after missing her first day back at work.

The news presenter, who recently appeared on the star-studded line-up on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, forgot to set her alarm and a colleague was forced to fill in for her on the show last-minute.

 

 

 

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Oh no - disaster - overslept on my 1st morning back at work on @gmb . Fell asleep last night fully made up with clothes on and contacts in - didn’t set alarm . Woke up looking like this !!!??!!! Can’t believe it - am going to get fired first morning back! And to think @adeleroberts & @romankemp we were talking about this in the jungle and I was proudly saying I had never overslept enough in 20 years to actually miss a show !!!! That’s karma !!!!

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