With the heart-wrenching loss of her beloved dad John last month, it is family first, now more than ever, for daytime TV mainstay Lorraine Kelly. And as if to prove that point, her daughter, Rosie Kelly Smith, has shared a set of intimate portraits that reveal the presenter as never seen before. Opening up the Kelly family photo album, the images show Lorraine’s life away from her showbiz day job as a devoted daughter and a doting mother and grandmother.

Rosie, 31, says: “She may be everybody’s TV mum, but she’s not famous to me. I’ve never known anything different. She’s just my mum. “The thing Mum always says is that everything is temporary, the good and the bad. And just be nice to people. It’s not hard. It’s actually harder to be horrible. She also says that you have to look after yourself before you can look after anyone else, including your baby. And my granny told me to be patient.”

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Such pearls of wisdom from Lorraine and her mum, Anne King McMahon, permeate Rosie’s debut book, Mother to Mother. Out this week, it is a parenting memoir in which the journalist, who has 18 month-old daughter Billie with fiancé Steve, 31, reveals the life lessons she learned from becoming a mother. Having got engaged last year, the couple will marry this summer in Scotland, with Lorraine and Rosie’s dad, also called Steve, set to be right by their side.

Lorraine and Steve met while working on TV-am in the 1980s and have been happily married for 32 years. Rosie says of their love story: “Dad was a cameraman, and although Mum knew right away that he was ‘the one’, they were friends for a year before she wore him down. No matter how ‘showbiz’ life gets – going to the Baftas, for example – Dad is very down to earth, he keeps everyone grounded. He’s very Scottish, a very to-the-point man. He keeps everyone calm.”

Rosie, who was born in 1994, spent her early years in England before relocating to Dundee for secondary school. She now lives “a six-minute walk away” from Lorraine and Steve’s new home in Berkshire. Rosie says: “People are always like, ‘Is it not a bit weird that your mum moved right next to you?’ But no, we need it. I see them all the time. They’re sort of settled now, but it took a while. We had them round for their Sunday roast pretty much every week while they got themselves sorted.”

Lorraine, who co-hosts the podcast What If? with Rosie, has been a fixture on our screens ever since her big break, becoming TV-am’s Scottish correspondent way back in 1984. She launched her eponymous ITV show in 2010, which remains as popular as ever. But despite having such a heavy workload over the years, Rosie says Lorraine was always a very hands-on mum. She explains: “She didn’t care for grades, she just cared about how happy I was.

“At parents’ evenings mum would always simply ask, ‘Does she have any friends and is she happy?’ Mum used to fly to London on Sunday and fly back on Thursday night. Me and my dad would always pick her up from the airport. Monday to Thursday, my hair would be a mess, done by my dad. From Friday onwards, I would have princess ringlets.”

After the birth of Billie, Rosie struggled with her mental health and was placed on medication. Lorraine was her rock. Rosie says: “She would finish work at 10, and could get to me at 11 if she really sped on the Tube. She doesn’t drive. She was always there. And that was so vital, even if I couldn’t talk, just to have her presence and someone who gets it.”

And Lorraine is besotted with her little granddaughter. Rosie adds: “She’s a great grandma, I knew she would be. Billie yells ‘Nana’ at the TV, which is quite funny, especially in public. One of Billie’s first words was ‘Nana’ too, although we don’t know whether that was ‘Nana’ or ‘banana’.”

*Mother to Mother by Rosie Kelly Smith is published on 26 February by Seven Dials (Hardback, £22).

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