ITV host Robert Peston, 59, has been holed up at home like many families across the UK following the coronavirus outbreak. The political editor has started broadcasting from the confines of his home amid strict Government guidelines to remain indoors in a bid to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Robert has been in quarantine with his girlfriend Charlotte Edwardes after she suffered symptoms of the virus.
But the journalist has now detailed his partner’s concerns while turning their home into a studio for work.
He revealed Charlotte was not too impressed they never got around to purchasing a lampshade for their living room.
“When it was clear I’d be broadcasting from home for a good while, we turned our sitting room into a makeshift mini-studio,” Robert explained.
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“Charlotte was a bit worried that we’ve never got round to buying a nice lampshade for the overhead pendant light, so she was very keen that the camera should be angled away from the exposed lightbulb.”
He added: “Other than that, there was no background curating.”
Charlotte is a journalist at The Sunday Times and a columnist for the newspaper’s Style magazine.
Robert’s comments come after his girlfriend started showing coronavirus symptoms.
The couple were forced to go into quarantine together last month.
After the political editor started broadcasting from his London home, the pair were in quarantine so as not to spread the suspected virus outside of the house.
“I had mild symptoms and think I’ve probably had it, although, of course, I have no access to a test,” he continued in the interview with this week’s Radio Times.
It comes after the government has been under severe scrutiny about the lack of tests available in the UK.
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While most tests are reserved for seriously ill patients in hospital, key workers such as NHS staff on the frontline are also being checked.
For the moment, most people with symptoms are being told to stay at home so virus can be contained.
But as the number of infections and deaths continues to rise, Robert confessed that working from home is a “big risk” for him.
“Political journalists do a lot of hanging around in the House of Commons picking up stories, so at the moment there’s no bumping into people who tell you stuff that’s on their minds, which could be a big lead,” he said, before explaining the importance of face-to-face conversations in politics.
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“A big risk is that I find myself working literally all the time — I can’t feel any difference between weekdays and weekends, and it easily becomes 24/7.”
But in a news sense, Robert hoped that something good could come out of working from home for journalists across the nation.
Robert Peston’s full interview is available to read in the Radio Times now.
Peston continues tonight on ITV at 10.50pm.
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