Lorraine Kelly reveals a potential career U-turn and admits she's even hired an expert to master new social media skills

Lorraine Kelly has made a bold career U-turn as she plans to reinvent herself as a TikTok star. 

The Scottish TV show host, 65, has presented various television shows for ITV and STV including Good Morning Britain, This Morning, and her eponymous programme Lorraine. 

But now she is hoping to become a TikTok sensation and has enlisted the help of Gogglebox star Joe Baggs, 27, who has been giving her tips on how to manage the app. 

She has even started learning the lingo - including Rizz (charm), Cap (lies), and GRWM (Get ready with Me.)

She told The Mirror: 'I like to keep up with all the social media trends and it was great to learn all about TikTok from Joe who knows his stuff and is also great company and very funny.'

Lorraine is being put through her paces for a brand new series on her ITV show Lorraine, which sees some of the TV experts undertake a host of new challenges. 

A source told The Mirror: 'Having been a famous fixture on TV screens for over 40 years, Lorraine is an expert when it comes to all things broadcasting but how will she get on in the virtual of TikTok? Lorraine will tap into the latest viral trends, as well as attempting to cook up an idea to help her break the internet.' 

Lorraine added: 'We are at the start of 2025, and our new feature What are you waiting for? It’s all about doing something that you never really thought you could do. Something different, something fantastic. So..I am going to learn to do The TikTok as I call it. Yes, TikTok and I have got an expert to help me.' 

Joe even provided Lorraine with a TikTok starter kit which comes complete with a selfie light and Lorraine asked: 'Does that make you look younger?' 

Lorraine’s What Are You Waiting For? initiative starts on January 9. Lorraine airs weekdays from 9am on ITV1. 

It comes as Lorraine furiously slammed the 'toxic' TV industry and Gregg Wallace's 'appalling behaviour' in a fiery new rant. 

MasterChef presenter Gregg, 60, is currently under investigation over a string of allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour - including from Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark - and stepped down from hosting the hit BBC cooking show in November.

The Scottish star was not holding anything back in a new interview where she discussed an 'abuse of power' that 'should never happen'.

Lorraine told The Mirror: 'There are toxic people in telly. We're going through that at the moment. The behaviour of Gregg Wallace and other people that we've seen, should it come about as all true, is appalling.' 

'There's an imbalance of power there, and it's abused. They're just not right, and it should never happen.'

She added: 'But how dare the people round about them allow and enable them to behave like that? It's horrible and it's toxic and nasty. I've got no time for people who abuse their power.'

MailOnline contacted representatives for Gregg Wallace for comment. 

Wallace was initially bullish in the face of the allegations, taking to Instagram to say they mostly came from 'middle class women of a certain age'.

He went on to ask: 'Can you imagine how many women on MasterChef have made sexual remarks or sexual innuendo?'

Since then, several high-profile names - including TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson as well as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer - have condemned his remarks in public statements.

The former greengrocer later apologised for the controversial comments which caused a PR storm. 

The under-fire presenter said of his middle class women slur: 'I wasn't in a good headspace when I posted it. I've been under a huge amount of stress, a lot of emotion.

Among those to come forward with allegations against Wallace is a woman called Lisa, not her real name, who worked on BBC show Eat Well for Less in 2015.

She told the BBC Wallace 'touched her inappropriately' when they were filming in a supermarket.

'He brushed past me at the checkout, and touched my bum with his waist and penis and laughed and said 'oooh you liked that didn't you',' she alleged.

'It was the way he reacted, other people would've said 'oh I'm sorry can I squeeze by' which would've been ok.' 

Lisa also claims that she felt she had to continue working but was 'not ok about it', describing it as 'slimy and disgusting'. She claims she raised it with a senior colleague but that nothing was ever done. 

Banijay say they have no record of this incident being raised at RDF Television, which produced Eat Well For Less.

A second woman claims that she came across Wallace while working at an event in 2022.

The woman, known only as Sarah, claims that Wallace asked her to take him to the car park at the end of the event.

'As we walked down, he started putting his arm around me, saying 'go on, hold my hand, don't you want to stand next to me',' she told the BBC.

Other claims include talking about his sex life on set, asking for women's numbers and repeatedly questioning a gay woman about the 'logistics' of dating other women.

Gregg's lawyers said 'it is entirely false that he engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature'. 

Food critic Grace Dent, 51, is set to replace Wallace on MasterChef while the investigation into his behaviour takes place.

Dent will judge the upcoming 20th series of Celebrity MasterChef, having appeared regularly as a guest and then even a contestant on MasterChef: Battle Of The Critics in 2022.