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Lorraine Kelly joins the choir in a charity song that she will perform for her young granddaughter

Lorraine Kelly joins the choir in a charity song that she will perform for her young granddaughter

Lorraine Kelly has created a charity single featuring Scottish singer Marti Pellow and a choir of women who discovered they had breast cancer after watching her talk show.

The 64-year-old talk show host said she plans to play the song, a new version of Wet Wet Wet’s hit single “Love Is All Around,” for her baby granddaughter Billie, who was born in August.

Speaking to the PA news agency, she said: “30 years ago (my daughter) Rosie was born and I listened to the song.

Lorraine sings with the choir (ITV/Jonathan Horsley/PA)

“Here we are 30 years later, playing our version of the song to Billie all the time.

“Hopefully she’ll sing it, it’ll be the first thing she says, which would be really nice, but it kind of completes this circle.”

“And the lyrics are so important – about love.”

For the last six years, ITV breakfast show Lorraine has promoted the Change And Check campaign to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of breast cancer.

Last year’s single “Golden” featuring Joss Stone and the choir “Change And Check” reached number one on the UK Single Download Charts.

Speaking about this year’s charity single, Kelly said: “It was fantastic because we were in a real, real, real recording studio.”

She added: “It’s been a joy and the fact that we’re all in this together, this amazing sisterhood together with Marti. It just felt very, very, very special.

Lorraine Kelly
The Change And Check Choir (ITV/Jonathan Horsley/PA)

“And Marti said, ‘At the end you’re going to feel something really positive and very emotional.’ And it really was like that, there were a lot of tears.”

Pellow, former lead singer of Wet Wet Wet, told PA: “We were at a place called Rak Studios which made so many incredible records over the years, huge records that sold hugely.

“With Abbey Road it really is at the top and it was a joy for us to go to Rak Studios and capture that moment.”

More than 100 women and one man have contacted the Lorraine Program to say they received their diagnosis as a result of the campaign.

The single will be available to download from Monday and all proceeds will go to breast cancer charity Future Dreams.

Kelly, Pellow and the choir will perform live on ITV1 on Lorraine from 9am.