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<\/p>\n5. She was told she\u2019d never be successful in TV with her accent<\/p>\n
While working as a local journalist, Lorraine was desperate to get a job at the BBC, applying for every job that was advertised \u2013 even farming correspondent. \u201cI wouldn’t have known one end of a cow from another,\u201d she laughs.<\/p>\n
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\n Lorraine Kelly in the Desert Island Discs Studios.\n <\/p>\n
He went, \u2018Nope. You’re never going to be a reporter. Maybe if you take elocution lessons, but you’re never going to make it in telly with that accent.\u2019<\/p>\n
Lorraine recalls being told she wouldn’t make it in TV.<\/p>\n
Her tenacity paid off; in 1983 she got her first TV job as a researcher, even though it came with a pay cut. \u201cI worked as a waitress at night for a pound an hour to pay the mortgage.\u201d<\/p>\n
She loved the job, and wanted to be a news correspondent, but was eventually called into the boss\u2019s office. \u201cHe just took his glasses down and looked over them. He went, \u2018Nope. You’re never going to be a reporter. Maybe if you take elocution lessons, but you’re never going to make it in telly with that accent.\u2019 I was absolutely crushed.\u201d But the next day she heard there was a job going as an onscreen reporter at TV-am \u2013 and got the job.<\/p>\n
6. TV in the eighties was an old-school environment<\/p>\n
Working in an office of two kept Lorraine very busy: \u201cI’d get mail in the office and it would say, \u2018Head of Politics\u2019. Oh, that would be me. \u2018Head of Sport\u2019. Me again. \u2018Industrial Correspondent\u2019. That’ll be me,\u201d she laughs. \u201cBut it was amazing because in a newsroom back then, women of my age wouldn’t be allowed near a big news story. They would do the funny wee bit at the end, or the girly story, whatever that may be. So, it was an amazing learning curve.\u201d<\/p>\n
And the job required some strange methods in order to get the stories from Glasgow to the London office. \u201cWe would send the cassettes in an envelope. I would go to the airport, find a pilot \u2014 British Airways, British Midland \u2014 and say, \u2018Is there any way you can take this with you? Somebody will be at the other end to pick it up.\u2019\u201d She laughs now. \u201cI know it\u2019s insane!\u201d<\/p>\n
7. She had a special chemistry with her first on screen co-host<\/p>\n
Lorraine began presenting Good Morning Britain alongside Mike Morris in 1990. They forged a strong working relationship, developing secret codes to help navigate live interviews.<\/p>\n
\u201cMike was a very kind, very generous, underrated presenter. We got to the stage where we could finish each other\u2019s sentences. I knew when he was going to do a follow up question, obviously I\u2019m not going to stand on that. I will lean back. And we had this kind of thing where if he asked the first question and I wanted to ask the second question, I would tap him on his leg and if he leaned back, I could jump in but if he leaned forward, he had something else to say.\u201d<\/p>\n
8. She still feels like an outsider \u2014 even with an OBE<\/p>\n
Lorraine has been honoured with an OBE, a CBE and a BAFTA Special Award, but says the imposter feeling never goes away. \u201cI still feel as if I don\u2019t really belong here. Somebody\u2019s going to tap me on the shoulder and say, \u2018I\u2019m terribly sorry, there\u2019s been a mistake. You have to leave. You\u2019re not good enough.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
And she worries now about whether a career like hers could happen. With recent cuts to TV broadcasting, \u201cthere\u2019s a whole raft of working-class people being left behind,\u201d Lorraine says. \u201cThese kids can\u2019t afford to come to London. Therefore, they cannot get the jobs they absolutely should be allowed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
The cultural cost? \u201cEnormous. If you\u2019re only going to hear elite opinions, we\u2019re never gonna get anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5. She was told she\u2019d never be successful in TV with her accent While working as a local…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-256758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}