A Day in the Life of Patrick Christys: Presenter spills all on preparing for GB News show and spending time with wife Emily Carver

I'll make myself a strong black coffee, knock it back and then spend an hour checking every single news outlet, as well as social media, to get a handle on the events of the day. The trick is to try to find a new angle on things and find a way to move the story on because when my show starts at 9pm, people need to see and hear something new.

I'll have my first planning call for my show at around 10am which will last for an hour or so - depending on how many of my ideas my producer wants to talk me out of doing... "for my own good".

Then I go for a quick jog and head to the gym. I can actually see the gym from the balcony of my flat so there's no excuse for not getting in there. I find it calms me down and helps me think clearly - it gets the endorphins going and, for some reason, I have some of my best ideas when I feel closest to gym-induced death.

Some days there'll be a live news event I can go and cover for my show, like a protest or demonstration. I'll try to get right into the middle of that stuff and bring my viewers the reality of the situation, even if that does come with certain risks! The main thing here is to know when you've got all the footage you need, then dart out of there in time for the video editors to clip it up for the show...

Other days I'll have some filming for GB News America from our Westminster studios so I'll head over there for about 2pm and then get myself back into Paddington.

I've got the main meeting with my team at 3pm. This is where we try to really nail down the running order of the show. I'll then write my two monologues (one for 9pm and one for 10pm), and the tops of the show.

Very often though, things change late in the day which means all that planning was completely pointless and, frankly, a total waste of everyone's time.

We could have a big vote in Parliament at about 7pm or 8pm, or a major breaking news incident just before we come on air - so we're always ready to rip up the running order and start from scratch at the last minute. I often think these are our best shows - flying by the seat of your pants, dropping all the advert breaks. The chaos...I love the chaos.

We'll go to air at 9pm and come off at 11pm. There's usually a short debrief with the team and then I walk home. Usually, this involves frantic social media checks to make sure I haven't said anything that is likely to end my career and land me in court whilst I chain-smoke cigarettes.

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I put the key in the front door at about midnight. Emily has usually made me a little bite to eat so I'll have that, which I really appreciate because she's got a full-on schedule as well. I often struggle to sleep because of the adrenaline of the show and the 57 coffees I drank at work. Also, my head will usually be whizzing with ideas for the next day.

Normally I'll get my head down at about 2am. This will sound a bit weird but I have to listen to something completely random to shut my brain down and drift off - like a podcast on the Nicaraguan Revolution, or whether aliens built the pyramids. Then I bask in the sweet relief of unconsciousness until Emily's bloody alarm goes off - again - at 6.30am!

I always look forward to the weekends because that's the only time I really get to spend with Emily, so we try to keep those days as free as possible.