Eamon Holmes
| Eamonn Holmes | |
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Holmes (right) with Wife Ruth Langsford and Holly Willoughby
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| Born |
3 December 1959 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Residence | Weybridge, Surrey, England |
| Occupation | Broadcaster, journalist |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Employer |
ITV Channel 5 |
| Height | 5 ft 11.75 in (1.82 m) |
| Television | GMTV • Sunrise • This Morning • Songs of Praise • Gift Wrapped • How the Other Half Lives • It's Not Me, It's You • Good Morning Britain |
| Spouse(s) | Ruth Langsford (m. 2010) |
| Children | 4 |
| Website | Official website |
Eamonn Holmes (born 3 December 1959) is a journalist and broadcaster from Northern Ireland, best known for presenting Sky News Sunrise and This Morning.
Holmes co-presented GMTV for twelve years between 1993 and 2005, before presenting Sky News Sunrise for eleven years between 2005 and 2016. Since 2006, he has co-hosted This Morning with his wife Ruth Langsford on Fridays and during school holidays.
He has also presented How the Other Half Lives (2015–present) and It's Not Me, It's You (2016) for Channel 5. Holmes is an advocate of numerous charities and causes including Dogs Trust, Variety GB and Northern Ireland Kidney Patients' Association.
Holmes was educated at Holy Family Primary School in Belfast and St Malachy's College, a Roman Catholic grammar school for boys, on the Antrim Road in Belfast. He then studied journalism at the Dublin College of Business Studies.
Holmes worked for a Dublin-based business magazine before going into broadcasting.
In 1979, he joined Ulster Television, the ITV franchise contractor for Northern Ireland. Here Holmes hosted and reported on the station's Farming Ulster programme. Afterwards, Eamonn was teamed up with Ulster Television's legendary sports reporters, Leslie Dawes (1922–2014) and Jackie Fullerton, to assist the extensive coverage of the important sporting events throughout the province.
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