GMB's Kate Garraway opens up on harrowing ordeal after being mugged

Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway has revealed a horrific ordeal she faced where her phone was stolen.

During an interview with Strictly Come Dancing star Michelle Tsiakkas, who had her own phone snatched from her hand just weeks ago, Kate revealed she had gone through something similar.

Michelle had shared on social media that she had been on her way to the dentist when she checked her phone for directions, and it was snatched out of her hand.

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“Within about five to ten seconds of me taking it out, it was grabbed, gone," she revealed on Thursday's Good Morning Britain.

“I’m generally quite aware as a person, I look around me, but you just can’t predict these things.”

Michelle is now warning others to be more vigilant while out in London. “Pop into a shop, send directions, come back out,” she advised.

During the interview, which also included a police officer explaining what to do if someone does have their phone snatched in London, Kate spoke about her ordeal, where she didn't feel that she received sufficient help from the police.

She said: "That has not been my experience. Is there something different if things are swiped off you physically?

"I've had phones stolen in London in a bag, I've tried to report it, and they've said, 'Do you want the insurance code number?' There was no sense that police were going to come, look at the area, see where it might be."

As the conversation turned back to Michelle’s experience, she went on: “I was quite traumatised, because it’s a shock, you don’t expect it, it’s an invasion of your personal space.”

“When it happened, I felt like I lost the strength in my legs,” she explained.

Her initial thoughts were to cancel her bank accounts and SIM and let her worried mum know what had happened before rushing to her appointment rather than calling the police.

She also didn’t think it would be worth the time reporting the incident, having heard friends in similar situations who hadn’t had their phones recovered after telling the police.

The Strictly star had previously revealed she had been left “scared and helpless”.

“This was a couple of days ago, and I've just about mentally recovered from that. It was quite traumatising on the day,” she said on Instagram after the incident.

“It wasted my whole day and made me feel awful, scared, helpless, and I don't want the same to happen to you.”

She added, “My phone got stolen. I mean I see it happening all the time but it's just one of those things that you just never think it's gonna happen to you and then it does.”

Wondering if maybe she was an “easy target”, she went on: “My heart just sank. I tried to like reach for it and that made me fall on my knees on the floor and graze my knee.

“I think my reflex was just to swear and then scream give me back my phone and clearly you know that didn't work. He just left.”

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1 and ITVX.