Eamonn Holmes
| Eamonn Holmes | |
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Holmes (right) with 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 | 1988–present |
| Employer |
Sky News 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 |
| 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 also presents How the Other Half Lives and It's Not Me, It's You for Channel 5.
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.
In 1982, Holmes was moved into news and current affairs reporting when he was tasked to anchor Ulster Television's flagship Good Evening Ulster programme. Holmes succeeded Gloria Hunniford who had presented the show since its launch in 1979. Holmes was the third choice to present the programme after trial runs by news reporters Gary Gillespie and Gerry Kelly.
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