Lorraine Kelly says despite 40 years of success she still has “working class cringe” even though she comes across as self assured on screen.

The ITV star has mixed with showbiz royalty for decades but hasn’t forgotten her roots. Lorraine, 65, said: “I don’t even know if I have got confidence. I’ve still got a wee bit of that working class cringe, where you think if you’re somewhere posh, someone is going to tap you on the shoulder and say ‘I’m sorry, you’ll have to leave.'”

Lorraine says the best present her mum ever gave her was encouraging her love of the written word. She said: “That was probably the best gift that my mum and dad could ever give to me. We might not have been rich as far as money goes, but in terms of education, culture and appreciation of books, we were.”

Lorraine was speaking to Woman’s Weekly where she also revealed in the interview how Oprah Winfrey put her at ease during an interview.

Lorraine said: “I absolutely loved talking to Oprah Winfrey. I was very nervous about it because, obviously, she’s the queen of everything, but she could not have been nicer. She put me at ease – that’s supposed to be my job. She was fantastic and such a pro.”

Lorraine Kelly hasn’t changed in her 40 year career in broadcasting ( 
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Space geek Lorraine says that her 2016 chat with Buzz Aldrin – the second man to have walked on the moon – was her favourite interview during her four decades in television.

She said: “I couldn’t believe I was actually in the same studio as somebody who had walked on the moon. I sat there as a 10-year-old watching it on a black-and-white telly with my dad.

“I get these really strange moments sometimes of thinking, ‘Gosh, imagine if I told that kid, you’re going to interview that man one day.’ You just wouldn’t believe it – of course you wouldn’t.”

She has previously revealed that her “worst” guest was disgraced actor Kevin Spacey because he was an “a***”.

Speaking to You magazine, the Scottish broadcaster said: “The worst was Kevin Spacey. This was before the scandal. The interview was about his series ‘House Of Cards’, which I loved.

“Isn’t it disappointing when you meet somebody whose work you really admire and you think, ‘He’s being an a***?’ … He didn’t want to be there. One-word answers. Snapping at people. You think, ‘Och, don’t do that’.”