Lorraine Kelly beamed with joy as she took her granddaughter to work yesterday.

The Queen of Daytime Television does not usually host her show on Fridays, but turned up with a special co-presenter – her daughter Rosie’s baby Billie.

She told viewers Billie now has ‘two little teeth’ and while she is not crawling yet is already learning to stand up.

Ms Kelly was repeatedly distracted by the youngster as she tried to chat to fashion journalist Mark Heyes.

Billie smilingly gurgled away as the veteran broadcaster tried to get on with the show and after the guest spotted red lipstick on the baby’s forehead, Ms Kelly said: ‘That’s me, I can’t stop kissing her.’

She later jokingly asked her granddaughter: ‘Do you want to come on and do fashion? Or should we talk about the Middle East? 

'Because you could probably solve it better than the rest of them! Okay, I will leave you with your book about Mr Astronaut.’

Ms Kelly, who is married to cameraman Steve Smith, announced the arrival of her first grandchild on social media last September.