Lorraine Kelly has candidly spoken out about her own struggle with shingles, describing the condition as "horrid" on her ITV show.The 64 year old host was back on air for another instalment of 'Lorraine', where she chats about everything from celeb gossip to personal health battles.
In a segment with Tyler West, they touched upon comedian Bob Mortimer's severe experience with shingles, prompting Lorraine to reveal her own painful encounter with the illness.
Discussing Bob Mortimer's recent revelation about his intense six-month struggle with shingles, which left him with muscle wastage and needing a wheelchair for mobility during filming, Lorraine empathised, saying: "Shingles, I know from personal experience, I've had it's awful, Tyler.
It's the worst." She went on to describe the discomfort, adding: "It's like having itchy pain, you know. It's very difficult to describe but it's horrid!" Tyler chimed in with what he'd heard about Bob's ordeal, commenting: "I mean he did say that it was probably like worse than his heart conditions that he had like six years ago.