Key Facts

• TV presenter Lorraine Kelly has announced she will have surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes.
• She shared this news from her hospital bed through a video on social media.
• The surgery is intended as a preventive measure, following some scans and tests.
• The medical procedure she will undergo is called laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, which typically takes one to two hours, with several additional hours for recovery in the hospital.
• After the surgery, she might need to take a two to four weeks break from work. This might result in a short break from hosting her TV show, Lorraine.
• Kelly has been a TV presenter and journalist for over 37 years, beginning with Good Morning Britain in 1988.
• Since 2010, she has been hosting her morning news program, Lorraine.