How Lorraine Kelly managed to win over husband Steve Smith after he rejected her

Lorraine says Steve wasn't interested in her when they first met (Image: Getty)

Lorraine Kelly says her husband wasn't initially interested in her until she got him "very drunk". The ITV breakfast star married television cameraman Steve Smith in 1992.

But it took Lorraine 12 months to charm him when they met seven years earlier while working in Glasgow on TV:am.

Talking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Lorraine explained: "Steve was one of my crew and he came in and it took me a year to batter down his defences. A year!  

"I got him very very drunk in Glen Co and leapt upon him like a ninja. He hasn't been able to escape since."

The couple went on to have daughter Rosie, now 30 and a mum herself, together. Lorraine, 64, admits the secret to their relationship is that Steve cooks and they take regular trips apart.

Lorraine Kelly opened up about her marriage to Steve (Image: ITV)

Lorraine continued: "He's a walking saint. He's a good lad. I couldn't do what I do without him. He's retired now but he does so much. He's great. He cooks. I'm rubbish at cooking. I'm just really bad. 

"Even if Rosie, who has the baby, has friends coming, she'll be like mum, let dad do it."

Talking about their weekends away, she continued: "I think it's important if you are in a relationship to have your own time. He's away playing golf. So he goes away and does that for a few days. Brilliant. 

"And I potter. And it means I can have beans on toast for my tea. Because he has to have meat and two veg every night. He cooks it himself to be fair. I don't have to do it. But he's very much like that. 

"Now I can potter about and watch rubbish on the telly. Married At First Sight. Total rubbish. But it's quite good rubbish as well.  

"I love a proper good drama or a good documentary. I'm a telly addict. I watch a lot. Far too much."

Despite being on our screens for over three decades, Lorraine admits: "I don't feel like I am on telly."

And she says the most important thing is going home to her family.

She added: "I love my job but it's just a job at the end of the day. Of course it's going to end at some point. I've had the best of it.  The main thing is going home to your family."

She says her best years on screen was when she was working with Steve adding: "The reason Steve and I have lasted so long is because we were together. 

"He was my cameraman, so we were together 24/7 all the time when we were working and we helped and supported each other through terrible things like the Lockerbie disaster, a lot of prison riots and a lot of good fun things as well like going to Orkney, going to Shetland, seeing bits of Scotland that are amazing, interviewing incredible people , doing all of these wonderful things."

She added: "We are very lucky."