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Kate Garraway has sold her home in London for £1.7 million as she battles up to £800,000 of debt. The Celebrity Traitors star has faced a slew of money issues in recent months, including racking up between £500,000 and £800,000 of debt from caring for her late husband, Derek Draper. It was reported earlier this year that the 58-year-old was selling her three-bedroom home in Islington, north London. The Land Registry website has now confirmed the sale of the Georgian terrace, which Garraway and Draper bought for £550,000 in 2004, MailOnline reported. The couple took out a mortgage on the home with the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2016. Garraway should make a profit of more than £1 million before tax on the house sale, if her mortgage wasn’t more than what she and Draper paid for the pad. She previously rented out the Islington home - which has two bathrooms, a private garden and a rooftop - for £6,750 on Open Rent. Garraway and Draper lived in their main five-bedroom family home in Muswell Hill at the time. The Good Morning Britain presenter - who was banished from the Traitors castle last week - was left with huge amounts of debt from caring for Draper, her husband of 18 years. Draper died aged 56 in January 2024 following a four-year battle with long Covid. Garraway was left “shocked” by a huge tax bill from Draper’s defunct psychotherapeutic company. She said she was facing “excessive, unpayable debt” as she clashed with Health Secretary Wes Streeting on GMB in January. The broadcaster revealed the £16,000 monthly cost of her late husband's care was more than her ITV salary and had resulted in her racking up huge debts. “At the time of his death, there were two appeals that hadn't been heard for funding,” she told Streeting on GMB. “It kept on getting pushed back and pushed back. In the meantime, and I'm lucky I've got an incredible job which is well-paid, I was having to fund the situation. “Now I've got excessive, unpayable debt because of it, and if I'm in that position, what are other people going to be? People can't afford four more years of this?" Garraway - whose phone was recently stolen in London - suffered a fresh financial blow as her media company lost £288,000 in 2024. The firm she set up in 2021 to handle her media earnings has reported losses of £288,122 in 2024, MailOnline reported.
