While wild camping in Zimbabwe last September, after finishing the final edit of her debut novel, Lorraine Kelly needed Wi-Fi to file the manuscript to her publisher.
But when the staff at an anti-poaching station near the Zambezi River refused her request for access, the TV presenter had a light-bulb moment.
‘I got out my phone and pulled up a photograph of myself with David Attenborough,’ recalls Lorraine, 64. ‘The chap went, “You’ve met David Attenborough?” and I went, “I have indeed, I’ve interviewed him. He’s a smashing fellow.”’
Wi-Fi promptly granted, Lorraine met her submission deadline and today, at her woman&home cover shoot at a magnificent house close to her Buckinghamshire home, a printed copy of sits on the make-up table before her.
