Piers Morgan reveals his niece Georgie has ‘just recovered’ from COVID-19

Piers Morgan has revealed his niece Georgie Tomlinson has ‘just recovered’ from COVID-19 as he celebrated her 21st birthday on Tuesday.

The Good Morning Britain star, 55, took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a throwback snap with his niece as he told fans she couldn’t have a party as she was still on the mend after contracting the virus.

It comes just days after Piers revealed his elderly parents, mother Gabrielle and stepdad Glynne Pughe-Morgan were feeling much better after battling COVID-19 themselves, telling viewers: ‘They’re a lot better, it’s such a relief.’ 

Sweet: Piers Morgan has revealed his niece Georgie Tomlinson has ‘just recovered’ from COVID-19 as he celebrated her 21st birthday on Tuesday

Piers shared a snap of himself alongside niece Georgia as a young schoolgirl along with a snap of her posing outside her house which had been decorated with balloons and 21st birthday banners.

He penned the caption: ‘Happy 21st to my lovely niece @georgietomlinson_ –  she’s just recovered from covid & can’t have a party, but is making the best of it. Have a good one G-Dog!’

On Thursday revealed his elderly parents were both feeling better after contracting COVID-19, and his stepdad had finally regained his sense of taste. 

Family: The Good Morning Britain star took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a throwback snap with his niece as he told fans she couldn't have a party as she was still on the mend

Family: The Good Morning Britain star took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a throwback snap with his niece as he told fans she couldn’t have a party as she was still on the mend

'They're feeling a lot better': It comes just days after Piers revealed his elderly parents were feeling much better after battling COVID-19 themselves

‘They’re feeling a lot better’: It comes just days after Piers revealed his elderly parents were feeling much better after battling COVID-19 themselves

He had previously said that his stepdad had been unable to taste wine and he had urged him to drink the ‘cheap stuff to save himself a fortune,’ but has now said his delighted stepdad had finally managed to taste salt in his meal. 

Piers said: ‘He saw that as a gigantic step forward to being able to taste his wine again.

‘So, well done, dad. One small salt step for man, one giant leap for your chances of guzzling some vino by the end of the week.’  

Piers had revealed that this parents, both in their mid to late seventies, had contracted the deadly coronavirus from a member of their support bubble.    

He said on Monday: ‘I’d like to say something to my parents, they are both battling COVID and have been for two weeks and it’s a scary thing for a family…

Hard times: The star revealed that his mum and step-dad, Gabrielle and Glynne Pughe-Morgan, had fought the disease (Piers and his parents, pictured in 2012)

Hard times: The star revealed that his mum and step-dad, Gabrielle and Glynne Pughe-Morgan, had fought the disease (Piers and his parents, pictured in 2012)

‘When your elderly parents are fighting it, they are both in their mid to late 70s, and they got it two weeks ago from someone in their bubble and they had to go out and they were very sensible but got the virus and then bang it was like dominoes.’ 

Piers’ biological father Eamonn Vincent O’Meara, tragically died in a road accident when Piers was just 11 months old, and when his mother remarried, the TV star and journalist took on his stepdad’s surname. 

Piers’ Good Morning Britain co-star Kate Garraway has watched her husband Derek Draper fight the deadly disease since March.   

While speaking to Piers on Monday’s show, Kate fought back the tears as she recalled the ‘breakthrough’ moment former Blair lobbyist Derek spoke his first word since emerging from coma.

Tough times: Piers' biological father Eamonn Vincent O'Meara, tragically died in a road accident when Piers was just 11 months old, and when his mother remarried, the TV star and journalist took on his step-dad's surname

Tough times: Piers’ biological father Eamonn Vincent O’Meara, tragically died in a road accident when Piers was just 11 months old, and when his mother remarried, the TV star and journalist took on his step-dad’s surname

The presenter revealed Draper appeared to mouth the word ‘pain’ when asked by nurses if he was in any discomfort.

While she said it was ‘heartbreaking’ he was suffering, it marked progress in his recovery being struck down with coronavirus.

But Kate, 53, is ‘keeping herself in check’ and said: ‘The power of hope is huge but you’re constantly trying to think, at what point do I have to start being real.’

She said: ‘Way back in April when we chatted for the first time and I said ‘look he seems to have survives so far, so I know I already have my miracle’.

‘But now I’m praying for the second miracle and that is for him to come back to us.

Tough times: Piers, pictured with his mum in 2008

Tough times: Piers, pictured with his mum in 2008

‘It’s very difficult because this could be it. I’m very much trying to keep myself in check, not start crying, because we still don’t know.’

Kate explained that throughout 53-year-old Draper’s hospitalisation, doctors and nurses have continued treating him as if conscious, telling him when they were about to move him and asking if he were in any pain.

She recalled: ‘And they did this, and he very clearly mouthed the word ‘pain’. Everybody that was there stopped and couldn’t believe it.’

The TV presenter added: ‘It is a huge breakthrough, obviously it’s heartbreaking because he feels pain and that’s not what we want, what it means is that he’s been able to connect a sensation in his body, with his mouth through his brain to say the word ‘pain’.

But she said: ‘I’ve spoken to you both before about is he still in there, is he locked away. I believe he is still in there. That’s a long way from being Derek with all his multiple words of colour with all the love, but it’s a start.

‘The power of hope is huge but you’re constantly trying to think, at what point do I have to start being real

She said there was ‘still a long road to go and we still don’t know how far down that road he can come’.

Kate said: ‘I was getting scared because I was thinking if it’s hard for him, how hard must it be for him stuck in there.’

Tough: Piers' Good Morning Britain co-star Kate Garraway has watched her husband Derek Draper fight the deadly disease since March

Tough times: She revealed on Friday that her husband, a former Blair lobbyist, was able to whisper the word 'pain', who watched on 'in tears' over FaceTime

Tough: Piers’ Good Morning Britain co-star Kate Garraway has watched her husband Derek Draper fight the deadly disease since March