Kate Garraway's heartbreaking scam horror as accounts were hacked after Derek debt woes

Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway has lifted the lid on her horrific banking ordeal when a fraudster almost drained her bank accounts moments before she was due to film Celebrity Traitors. During Wednesday's visit (August 6) to the ITV studios, the 58-year-old broadcaster woke up the nation alongside her co-host Ed Balls as they discussed the biggest stories hitting the headlines.

It didn't take long before the conversation turned to the rise in fraudulent activity across the UK. It was at this point that the mum-of-two shared her terrifying experience with fraudsters earlier this year. She told viewers how a criminal had hacked into her bank accounts just minutes before she was due to hand over her phone to BBC bosses before she started filming the celebrity edition of The Traitors.

She recalled: "The bank phoned me and asked my if I was in Jacksonville Voters at 2am this morning and I said, 'Absolutely not'. They said, 'Okay, we thought that was unusual. We've frozen your account. You've been hacked and are a victim of fraoud.

"I said, 'Oh my god, I'm about to take off!' and they said, 'You must immediatelly contact all your other accounts because they will be linked to and they will be accessible and if you give us the details we'll do it'.

"And I said, 'Well, I'm about to take off so I can't!' and then when we landed there was a producer ready to take my phone off me because you have no internet access or phones in that castle and they said, 'We've got to take it'."

"And I said, 'No, I've been a victim of fraud', and actually, I had some pockets of cash because I was paying off chunks of bets at the time, normally there would have been no money to take out of my account.

It was at this point that Kate quickly texted her bank to do another check on her accounts to see what money had been taken and prevent any furthere hacking before she started filming.

Kate went on: "So I was really panicking, and I quickly texted the bank to say this had happened to one of my accounts, could they check and they quickly texted back and said, 'Give me the name of the person and I'll check because the fraud office operates differently, so it might be true'.

"So they went off to check, my phone went but when I was allowed, because I was worried by the producers about this call. So they let me call again and the bank said it was completely wrong and if I had given them details of my other bank accounts, they would have emptied it all, and they had indeed done that in that other account."

After sharing the terrifying ordeal, she admitted "I think I'm the only person in the world to have been saved by The Traitors because most people come out in a bad way". The presenter shared how genuine the phone call sounded, insisting: "they had the number, they had the name, they had details of my account already".

"They were saying, 'Do it now because otherwise this is going to happen to your other accounts'. Yeah so I genuinelty felt the fear," she admitted. Good Morning Britain airs from 6am on ITV1 or catch up on ITVX.