This year is proving to be another wonderfully busy one for Katie Piper. After being awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List for services to charity and people with burns, the Loose Women panellist has penned her first children’s book, and has been limbering up for a 10k run this autumn to raise money for The Katie Piper Foundation, the charity she founded after surviving an acid attack in 2008.
Katie, 38, has also landed her own Sunday-morning chat show, which launches on ITV this weekend. And, here, in an exclusive interview, she tells TV Times why it’s a dream come true…
How do you feel about hosting a show with your name in the title, Katie? I feel so excited! I’ve wanted to do this kind of weekend TV for so long. I also think it’s quite cool to keep the British public entertained through the school holidays. It’s six onehour episodes on Sunday mornings, and will be very upbeat, positive, and light-hearted.
It’s funny that I’m going to be waking up the nation – I’m usually up at 5.30am with my two kids [daughters Belle, eight, and four-year-old Penelope], so the show’s 8.30am start will be a bit of a lie-in!
What can viewers expect from Katie Piper’s Breakfast Show? It’s going to be a real mixture.
We’ll have two guests on each show – a celebrity and a lifestyle guru, podcaster or a wellbeing expert.
This story is from the August 06, 2022 edition of TV Times.
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