Watch the moment plane passengers left stunned as TV legend moonlights as air hostess and makes inflight announcement
The ITV presenter has been touring her homeland as an ambassador for the Orkney International Island Games.
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The games are a week-long event that sees athletes from 24 islands around the world compete across 12 sports.
Lorraine was jetting from Dundee to Kirkwall on a Loganair flight when she surprised other passengers by jumping up to the front of the plane and speaking into the microphone.
"Hi everybody, I'm Lorraine Kelly and I want to welcome you on this Loganair flight," she started.
"Of course, we have just landed in Dundee and we're on our way to Kirkwall, and this is the last call for the Orkney Island Games."
Lorraine continued: "I hope you all have a brilliant time and I've always wanted to do this, this is super cool, so thank you so much and enjoy. You will love Orkney, it is the best place in the world, thank you."
The presenter shared the video of her announcement to her Instagram page.
She captioned the post: "A CAREER HIGH! Making the announcement on the @flyloganair flight from Dundee to Kirkwall - for @orkney2025 - great atmosphere here - the #bermuda team were playing a fun game of cricket down the High Street in Kirkwall last night!"
Lorraine's role as the Games' ambassador comes after ITV slashed her eponymous daytime show by 30 minutes.
From January, Lorraine will only take to the airwaves for 30 weeks of the year and for only half an hour at a time.
Following the announcement, fears rose that the veteran presenter could quit the channel entirely.
However, she insisted that she was not quite done yet when she spoke to Tom Kerridge on the Proper Tasty podcast in May.
Lorraine, 65, has been appearing on ITV breakfast screens for over four decades.
She joined the original breakfast TV station TV-am in 1994 as its Scotland Correspondent.
When the Camden-based company lost its licence, she was one of only a few stars who made the switch to GMTV in 1993.
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