Lorraine Kelly has vowed to continue working as long as she can as she confessed she has no plans to retire. 

The TV presenter, 64, has achieved a successful four decades in the spotlight after making her debut on TV-AM back in 1984. 

Since then she has presented for ITV and STV including Good Morning Britain, This Morning, Daybreak and her own show Lorraine, which she has hosted since 2010. 

On Sunday the star is to receive a BAFTA Special Award to recognise her broadcasting career at the BAFTA Television Awards at the Royal Festival Hall in London. 

And Lorraine has no plans to slow down as she told The Mirror: 'I don't think I would ever retire. I look at people like Jane Goodall, who I interviewed recently. The amazing lady who works with chimpanzees, she's 90 years old.' 

She continued: 'I look at David Attenborough, I look at people like Michael Palin, and they still work really really hard because they love what they do. They still have a curiosity and they want to learn things. I have still got lots to do and lots of people to talk to.' 

Lorraine has had her own ITV show since 2010 and she confessed that even if the show is ever axed she won't retire completely. 

'Even if that happens I won't retire completely, I will always either be writing or doing something for radio. It's a huge milestone. 40 years is massive. TV can be notoriously pretty ruthless and people can come and go.'

Lorraine is nominated in the Daytime category at this year's TV BAFTA's and will be attending with her husband Steve and daughter Rosie, 29, who announced her first pregnancy last month.  

The star admitted she will be emotional and nervous and while she isn't a big fan of walking the red carpet she is excited to wear a new dress which she is having made for her. 

Now the queen of breakfast TV, Lorraine was born in the working-class Gorbals area of Glasgow to a TV repairman father.

She grew up in a house with an outside toilet and no hot water, but she was bright and ambitious. 

She turned down a university place to start working on her local newspaper, The East Kilbride News, and then got a job as a researcher for the BBC.

When she heard about plans for a new thing called a ‘breakfast show’, she applied to TV-am to be part of their line-up and was made the show’s Scotland Correspondent in 1984.

It was Lorraine’s heartfelt reporting on the Lockerbie tragedy 30 years ago that brought her to the attention of TV-am’s bigwigs.

She was the first TV reporter on the scene in December 1988 when the Pan-Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb in mid-air and landed on the small Scottish town, killing 243 passengers, 16 crew and 11 people on the ground.

Since then she has gone on to report on The King's Coronation and interview Prime Ministers, royalty and Hollywood stars.

Last month, Lorraine revealed what her first grandchild will call her as she broke her silence on the happy news. 

Celebrating during her ITV show, Lorraine, 64, exclaimed: 'I'm going to be a granny! How exciting is that? Granny Smith because, you know, my married name is Smith! 

'So I'm Granny Smith! We're all very excited, it's huge and wonderful and yeah... it's just cheered everybody up, which is just great!

'Thank you to everybody who has sent me messages, it was really kind of you... thank you very much, it means a lot, it means a lot!'