GB News presenter Eamonn Holmes has been taking a swipe at his old channel again. The former This Morning host walked away from ITV last year, after presenting the daytime TV show for over 15 years
Eamonn Holmes has hit out at his former employers once again.
Just weeks on from branding ITV as ‘sly’ – and igniting a feud with former collogue Phillip Schofield – Eamonn has once again let rip when chatting about his time working on the channel.
The broadcaster, 62, has claimed he wasn’t ‘treated with respect’ at ITV towards the end of his time with the station.
Eamonn co-hosted the Friday instalment of This Morning for 15 years with his wife Ruth Langsford, 61, before they were replaced on the ITV show by Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary last year.
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“I made the jump to GB News because options dried up,” Eamonn told The Guardian over the weekend.
“The ‘wrong age’, at the ‘wrong stage’ – at some point it becomes very hard to get work.”
He added: “It was obvious that I didn’t tick the boxes for ITV any more, and I wasn’t being treated with respect there.
“It was a self-esteem thing. You think: ‘Nah, I’m out of here! Bye!’ So that was it. And nothing’s changed: I play what I do straight. I’m not flying the flag for any political agenda.”
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The veteran presenter then went on to state it was “nice to be appreciated” at his new place of work, GB News.
The Mirror has contacted representatives for ITV for comment.
This isn’t the first time Eamonn has lashed out at his former employers.
Last month, the dad-of-four claimed ITV made it appear that he wanted to walk away from the channel, when he had in fact been dropped.
“They’re sly. They didn’t want to announce that I’d been dropped because it would adversely affect audience figures, so they made it look as if I’d walked away from them rather than the other way round,” the journalist revealed to Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine.
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“They had a chat with my agent and announced that I was going to GB News when they’d done no more than ask if I’d be interested in joining them.”
A spokesperson for ITV told the Mirror at the time: “This isn’t a version of events that we recognise and as we have said before we wish Eamonn all of the very best.”
It wasn’t just ITV bosses that Eamonn called out in his chat – former This Morning colleague Phillip Schofield also took a bashing too.
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“I only had about three more words to say,” a hurt-looking Ruth said.
Speaking in his interview, Eamonn claimed “Phillip is renowned for snubbing people” and he was “hurt” by the awkward incident.
“He’s very passive-aggressive. It’s up to Ruth to say how she felt, but I was feeling hurt for her,” he confessed.
“No one would have snubbed me like that.”
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