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Lorraine Kelly’s staggering weekly earnings unveiled amid brutal ITV daytime cuts

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Despite ITV’s sweeping cuts to its daytime lineup and plans to halve Lorraine’s airtime from 2026, Lorraine Kelly’s production company continues to thrive financially

Lorraine Kelly’s staggering weekly earnings unveiled amid huge ITV daytime cuts(Image: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

While ITV braces for major job losses and cuts across its daytime schedule, Lorraine Kelly remains one of its highest earners, pulling in around £13,000 a week last year.

The 65-year-old presenter’s financial success comes amid confirmation that her self-titled show will be cut to just 30 minutes a day starting in 2026, with ITV axing 220 jobs across Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, This Morning, and Loose Women.

Despite looming changes, filings from Lorraine’s company, Albatel Ltd, show her earnings remain strong. In 2024, the firm paid £135,504 in Corporation Tax, indicating income of roughly £677,520 which was up from £540,000 in 2022/23, when tax paid totaled £108,505.

Albatel Ltd is now valued at £4.2 million, with £3.3 million in cash reserves and £135,000 in investments, according to The Sun. It comes after Lorraine’s no-expense spared Channel 4 show was unveiled after the brutal ITV cuts.

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It’s unclear how the format changes will impact her income, but the shift is significant. From January 2026, Good Morning Britain will be extended to 9:30am, replacing half an hour of Lorraine, which will now air only 30 weeks a year instead of year-round. On weeks when Lorraine is off-air, GMB will run until 10am.

Kevin Lygo, ITV’s managing director of media and entertainment, defended the shake-up: “Daytime is a really important part of what we do, and these scheduling and production changes will enable us to continue to deliver a schedule providing viewers with the news, debate and discussion they love from the presenters they know and trust, as well as generating savings which will allow us to reinvest across the programme budget in other genres.

Lorraine Kelly remains one of its highest earners, pulling in around £13,000 a week last year
Lorraine Kelly remains one of its highest earners, pulling in around £13,000 a week last year(Image: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

“These changes also allow us to consolidate our news operations and expand our national, international and regional news output and to build upon our proud history of trusted journalism at a time when our viewers need accurate, unbiased news coverage more than ever.”

It comes as Lorraine is setting sail to Channel 4 with a big-budget travel show around Norway. The daytime host is jumping ship for a new travelogue exploring the land of the Vikings in the Scandinavian country.

Home of the Northern Lights, the 65-year-old will tour the stunning natural beauty it has to offer, across mountains, glaciers and fjords in Lorraine Kelly’s Norwegian Odyssey.

Lorraine Kelly in a maroon dress.
Lorraine has been in the business for over 40 years(Image: Hoda Davaine/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Women of the Year)

Glasgow-born Lorraine got her big break at TV-am as an on-screen reporter covering Scottish news in 1984. She’s fronted shows for ITV and STV, including Good Morning Britain, GMTV, This Morning and Daybreak before landing her own show.

Last year the channel celebrate her glittering career with special Lorraine Kelly: 40 Unforgettable Years, featuring famous colleagues and fans like Piers Morgan, Brian Cox and Craig David.

Looking back at her four-decade journey in the industry, Lorraine said: “I have never had a career plan and I still don’t. I’ve worked hard and I’ve been lucky. I love what I do and I have a wonderful production team and crew.

“As a freelance you live from one yearly contract to the next and you never know what the future holds, but I found my niche. Live morning TV suits me and I love it.”

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Fleetwood claims share of lead at Tour Championship

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Tour Championship – round two leaderboard

-13 T Fleetwood (Eng), R Henley (US); -11 C Young (US); -10 R MacIntyre (Sco), P Cantlay (US); -8 S Scheffler (US)

Selected others: -7 S Lowry (Ire), R McIlroy (NI), J Thomas (US); -6 L Aberg (Swe), C Morikawa (US); -5 H Hall (Eng)

Tommy Fleetwood fired a superb 63 to join American Russell Henley in a share of the lead at 13 under par after the second round of the Tour Championship in Atlanta.

The Englishman made eight birdies, with the only blemish to his scorecard arriving on the 16th when he left his approach well short of the flag after finding a fairway bunker off the tee.

It was an excellent display from Fleetwood, who narrowly missed out on victory at the St Jude Championship and Travelers Championship earlier this season.

The 34-year-old is yet to win a PGA Tour event despite having 44 top-10 finishes.

He joked earlier this week that he would find it “pretty funny” if he were to triumph this weekend to claim the FedExCup and a cheque of $10m (£7.4m) in the season-ending event.

“All I can do is keep learning from the things that I might have got. I actually feel like I’ve played very, very well when I have led the tournaments and been in contention,” said Fleetwood.

“It’s just I might have not got things right at the end. It’s not like I’ve crashed and burned. It’s just that I’ve not quite finished things off.

“The people that win the most are the guys that are in contention the most and then they keep winning of course. That’s just what I want to do. That’s where I want to be. I keep going.”

Henley, who started out on Friday two shots clear of his playing partner Scottie Scheffler, recorded timely birdies on the 17th and 18th holes to sign for a four-under 66.

His US compatriot Cameron Young sits two shots back at 11 under after a scintillating performance, featuring six birdies on the back nine, helped him to a 62, the day’s best score.

Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre is one shot further behind at 10 under alongside Patrick Cantlay.

However, world number one Scheffler was unable to make significant inroads at the top of the leaderboard, with his 69 including three bogeys to put him at eight under.

Scheffler’s performance was encapsulated when he gave a fist pump after missing a par-saving putt on the 14th in a rare show of frustration.

On the same green, Ireland’s Shane Lowry holed a remarkable birdie putt from just over 97 feet – the longest in FedExCup play-offs history and sixth-longest on the PGA Tour since 2003.

That arrived as Lowry surged up the leaderboard after the turn, playing the final nine holes in six under.

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Chicago ‘will be next’: Trump teases troop expansion in Democrat-led cities

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President Donald Trump has hinted he plans to expand his domestic troop deployment to other Democrat-led cities in the United States, starting with the midwestern metropolis of Chicago, Illinois.

Trump’s warning arrived shortly after the Department of Defence confirmed to US media that the National Guard troops currently patrolling Washington, DC, will now be carrying weapons.

In a statement on Friday, the Pentagon said the decision came directly from Trump’s defence secretary, Pete Hegseth.

“Members supporting the mission to lower the crime rate in our Nation’s capital will soon be on mission with their service-issued weapons, consistent with their mission and training,” the statement said.

Trump had called up the National Guard on August 11 to address crime in Washington, DC, dismissing nonpartisan data from the Metropolitan Police Department that shows violent crime in the city at a 30-year low.

The city had seen an uptick in murder and other crimes after the COVID-19 pandemic began, but since 2023, violent crime has fallen by 35 percent, according to the police statistics.

Trump, however, renewed his attacks against the city’s leadership on Friday and once again threatened to take over the local government. He has already federalised the local police force, a power he can exert for a period of 30 days.

“It was a crime-infested rat hole, and they do have a lot of rats,” Trump said of Washington, DC, during a meeting with reporters and FIFA football federation president Gianni Infantino at the White House.

Threats against DC Mayor Bowser

He specifically called out Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, warning she could lose her democratically elected post.

“I’m tired of listening to these people say how safe it was before we got here,” Trump said. “It was unsafe. It was horrible. And Mayor Bowser had better get her act straight, or she won’t be mayor very long because we’ll take it over with the federal government and run it like it’s supposed to be run.”

Critics have voiced concern that such a move would further disenfranchise the voters of Washington, DC, and legal experts warn that Trump may run afoul of the law if he attempts to seize control of the city.

The federal government already wields significant power over the affairs of the capital. But under the Home Rule Act of 1973, a local government — with a mayor and city council — was set up to manage the city’s day-to-day policies, though Congress retained the right to review and reject local laws.

It is not clear how Trump could singlehandedly overturn the Home Rule Act, barring an act of Congress.

Still, Washington, DC’s unique status as the nation’s capital has allowed Trump to deploy the National Guard more freely there than he could in other parts of the country.

Earlier this month, the Trump administration faced trial for its use of the National Guard to quell demonstrations last June in Los Angeles, California.

State and local officials have argued that the move not only violated the law, but also ignited tensions between protesters and law enforcement.

In explaining California’s case against the Trump administration, state Attorney General Rob Bonta cited the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which bars the use of the country’s military for domestic law enforcement.

“Two months ago, the federal government deployed military troops to the streets of Los Angeles for the purposes of political theater and public intimidation,” Bonta said in a news release. “This dangerous move has no precedent in American history.”

Expanding troop deployments to Chicago

But Trump has advanced the idea that he will continue to deploy the National Guard to other parts of the country, in the name of combating crime.

“After we do this, we’ll go to another location, and we’ll make it safe also. We’re going to make our country very safe. We’re going to make our cities very, very safe,” Trump said, before turning his attention to one city in particular.

“Chicago’s a mess. You have an incompetent mayor. Grossly incompetent. And we’ll straighten that one out probably next. That’ll be our next one after this. And it won’t even be tough.”

He also named other cities he would like to “clean up” with federal troop intervention.

“I think Chicago will be next, and then we’ll help with New York,” Trump said at one point on Friday. At another, he hinted he might be inclined to once again deploy the National Guard to California.

“Now, you look at what the Democrats have done to San Francisco; they’ve destroyed it,” Trump said. “It’s just different. We can clean that up, too. We’ll clean that one up, too.”

Any of those proposed efforts, should they materialise, would likely face challenges under the Posse Comitatus Act.

Already, some mayors have responded to the idea that their city could be the next stop for Trump’s anti-crime campaign.

“If President Trump wants to help make Chicago safer, he can start by releasing the funds for anti-violence programs that have been critical to our work to drive down crime and violence,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a statement earlier this month.

“Sending in the national guard would only serve to destabilize our city and undermine our public safety efforts.”

As Trump faces the end of the 30-day window for his control of the Washington, DC, police force, he has indicated that he might try to circumvent the deadline by declaring the capital’s crime a “national emergency”.

“ I don’t know if there is a deadline because if I declare a national emergency, which this was, that ends the deadline,” Trump said.

Who is Tom Grennan’s wife Danniella Carraturo – how they met and ‘grovelling’ reconciliation

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Tom Grennan has been in a relationship with Danniella Carraturo for several years, with them having met on a night out before temporarily splitting up during the Covid pandemic

Tom Grennan has spoken about his relationship with his wife Danniella Carraturo over the years(Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images for evian)

BRIT Award nominee Tom Grennan has spoken about his relationship with his wife Danniella Carraturo on occasion. It’s included him having spoken about the moment that the couple met and his partner being inspiration for music.

Tom, 30, is said to have met pilates instructor Danniella one evening in 2020 and they got engaged two years later. They went on to tie the knot in a wedding ceremony held last year and he’s now announced that he’s become a parent.

The singer-songwriter has said that he knew Danniella was “the one” from the first time they met. It’s been revealed that they met in an elevator, with him speaking about the encounter on the Kyle and Jackie O Show last year.

Tom shared on the radio show that they “bonded” over a cigarette during a night out. He recalled them saying ‘hello’ to each other in the lift whilst both “heading to the smoking area”. He added: “Bonded over a ciggie and that was it.”

He said that he “misread” the situation though, with him saying: “I leant in for a kiss and she was like ‘what the hell are you doing?’ […] I was just like ‘well if you’re not gonna kiss me, you might as well put your phone number in my phone’.”

Tom Grennan and Danniella Carraturo at an event in 2022.
Tom Grennan (left) met his wife Danniella Carraturo (right) on a night out(Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images for Serge DeNimes)

Tom, who said that he felt there was “something” about her, shared that they began a romance but were together “not long” before splitting up. He suggested that Covid-19 lockdown was a factor and that he had not been “ready”.

He recalled Danniella later posting a photo of herself, which prompted him to get back in touch. Tom said he messaged her saying “enjoy your day” and described her as “stunning”. He added: “And then I had to do some grovelling, basically.”

Tom once teased to Rolling Stone Australia/NZ that his single Remind Me, which was released in 2022, had been inspired by Danniella, whom he called his “best mate”. He said: “It was about reconnecting with somebody special.”

The musician told the outlet in an interview three years ago: “Now we’re back together, and I’m in love. She’s amazing, somebody who has changed my life completely.”

Tom Grennan and his wife Danniella Carraturo during their wedding in Majorca earlier this month.
The couple got engaged in 2022 and then tied the knot in Majorca last year(Image: instagram/@tom.grennan)

That same year, it was announced that Tom and Danniella had got engaged. Then, in June 2022, shortly after his proposal, the couple were seen at Wimbledon, where his fiancée appeared to be sporting an engagement ring.

More recently, Tom and Danniella tied the knot in May last year. The couple exchanged vows in a ceremony in Majorca that was attended by family and friends. The reception was held in an outdoor area at a venue on the island.

Some guests shared photos from the nuptials on social media at the time. One attendee wrote in a post that there had been a “euphoric atmosphere”. Another shared that they were in “awe” over the couple’s wedding celebrations.

Tom later confirmed he had got married and shared a photo of the newlyweds embracing in a field. He was seen in a black suit, whilst the bride wore a white dress. Beside a black heart emoji, he wrote in the post last year: “Life starts now.”

Tom Grennan, in a white suit, and Danniella Carraturo, in a green jacket and skirt, at Wimbledon in 2022.
Tom has spoken about their relationship over the years and revealed that Danniella has inspired songs(Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images for evian)

Weeks after the wedding, during his appearance on the Kyle and Jackie O Show, Tom revealed that he wrote Danniella a song as his wedding speech. He confirmed on the radio show at the time that it had been an unreleased song.

He said: “I thought my speech would be awful because I’m actually dyslexic. I’m rubbish at writing and speaking publicly.” Tom recalled telling his wife before the music began: “I can’t really talk as well as I would love but here goes …”

Earlier tonight, Tom shared that he’s become a parent in a post celebrating his album Everywhere I Went, Led Me to Where I Didn’t Want to Be having topped the charts in the UK. It marks his third consecutive chart-topping album.

Tom Grennan holding a chart award and his baby.
And earlier today the singer-songwriter announced that he’s become a parent(Image: tom.grennan/instagram)

Alongside a series of photos, one of which showed a baby holding his award for the achievement, he wrote: “From the kid who never thought he’d make it, to three consecutive number one albums, joining an esteemed club to do so with the likes of The Beatles & Oasis – words will never be enough for the gratitude I feel.

“To now be stepping into fatherhood at the same time is the greatest gift I could ever imagine. Music gave me purpose, but being a dad gives me everything. Here’s to the past that built me, the present that grounds me, and the future I can’t wait for!

“Thanks to all the fans for once again making my dreams a reality, I really couldn’t do it without you all. It’s going to be amazing to see so many of you on the upcoming tour in September. Honestly I’m so excited for what’s to come, we are just getting started.”

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