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Kate Garraway Says AI Deepfakes Invented a ‘New Partner’ and Hurt Her Children

She urges greater skepticism after fabricated reports upset her children.

Overview

  • Garraway says AI-generated photos placed her beside an unidentified man, triggering false claims she was in a new relationship.
  • She describes the hoax emerging about a year after Derek Draper’s death, intensifying the emotional impact on her family.
  • Fake social accounts and algorithmically surfaced headlines spread the claims, with strangers congratulating her in public.
  • A fabricated article alleging her teenage son opposed the supposed relationship was especially distressing for her children.
  • Writing in The Sun and speaking on Good Morning Britain, she warned that when anything can be faked, proof risks losing meaning and urged careful verification.