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Loose Women presenter Ruth Langsford has sent a defiant message to Eamonn Holmes, two months after their marriage split

Ruth Langsford has sent a defiant message two months after her marriage to Eamonn Holmes ended.

The 64-year-old Loose Women presenter has revealed that she is still wearing her wedding ring as Eamonn is linked with counsellor, Katie Alexander, who is 22 years his junior. Ruth was seen still proudly lashing her wedding ring as she modelled her clothing range on shopping TV channel QVC on Friday. The range included her latest trench coats and the ring was clearly on show as she walked up and down to showcase the coats on her Instagram page.

This defiant showing comes after Ruth gave Eamonn a “final warning” after he moved out of their Surrey home. Bella magazine reported that the TV presenter had looked to draw a line under their relationship: “Ruth doesn’t want him to feel like he can pop back and forth when he likes to grab bits. She wants a clean slate and has even told friends she might change the locks.”

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Ruth Langsford sent a defiant message to estranged husband Eamonn Holmes ( 
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This has coincided with Eamonn taking a break from presenting the Breakfast Show on GB News, telling viewers that he was going on annual leave until “next week”. Meanwhile, Ruth recently dampened hopes of a reconciliation between the pair, hinting she could never be friends with the dad-of-four. The mum-of-one was hosting ITV’s Loose Women when the panel started discussing friendship with an ex. Ruth told singer Sinitta she was lucky she was still friends with ex-boyfriend, Simon Cowell, Ruth mused: “Not everyone can do that”.

Eamonn told Best magazine he hoped he could be friends with Ruth after their split, but conceded it was “too soon’ to tell. His comments came before it was reported Ruth found messages between her husband and another woman on a laptop. She is said to have been left “hurt” after finding out Eamonn is being consoled by Katie Alexander, 42, after the relationship counsellor struck up a friendship with the veteran broadcaster over the past couple of years.

Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes before their marriage split ( 
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Dave Benett/Getty Images)Katie’s ex husband has since come forward to offer his sympathy for Ruth. Speaking to The Sun, he admitted he was “heartbroken” when his own marriage came to an end, adding it took him years to “recover”. He said: “She’s going through what I did after our marriage ended.” George added: “She was not swooning over him like he was George Clooney. But she liked being on social media and one day she said she’d had a reply from him.”

Loose Women’s Brenda Edwards and Ed Sheeran paid a heartfelt tribute to her late son Jamal Edwards who tragically passed away two years ago at the tender age of 31

Loose Women panellist Brenda Edwards took to social media to mark the 34th birthday of her late son Jamal Edwards, who passed away two years ago.

The 55 year old TV personality, who first found fame on the X Factor back in 2005, shared with fans a tribute to the DJ and music entrepreneur. Jamal had been awarded an MBE for his services to music in 2014 and also contributed to the rise of singer and songwriter Ed Sheeran.

Brenda posted a video to Instagram featuring a host of pictures and videos of Jamal throughout his life to mark the anniversary. The clip, which featured Ely Eira’s song This Is The Beginning in the background, included snapshots of the late musician as a baby, on holiday, DJing, laughing with his mother and playing football. Brenda penned: “34 years ago today you brought so much joy and sunshine into my life.”

Loose Women star Brenda Edwards led the way to pay tribute to her late son Jamal to mark his 34th birthday ( 
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Jamal Edwards passed away in February 2022
And she then captioned the post, saying: “I know Jamal is celebrating his Birthday today up above and you can guarantee I will be doing the same.” Wasting no time in sending their love was two of the star’s co-panellists on the ITV daytime show, Judi Love and Denise Welch. Judi wrote: “sending you so much love sweetie”, while Denise posted blue heart emojis in tribute to Jamal’s favourite colour.

Strictly Come Dancing star Layton Williams, This Morning presenter Josie Gibson and actor Danny Miller also sent their support by commenting with heart emojis. Within minutes of Brenda’s post, Ed Sheeran also took to social media to pay tribute to his close pal by sharing a photo of him on his Instagram story. Alongside the picture, he wrote: “Happy birthday my brother, miss you every day x.”

Chelsea Football Club, Jamal’s beloved team, also shared a video to Instagram of them surprising Brenda with a £1 million donation from their foundation to the Jamal Edwards Self Belief Trust. The trust was set up in memory of Jamal as it is “designed to help underrepresented young people access fulfilling careers.”

The Instagram post of the Chelsea Foundation also said it was set to launch a five-year partnership with Jamal’s trust to support initiatives like their Self Belief Sanctuary programme, which helps “house young people at risk of homelessness.” In addition the Chelsea Foundation is also committed to annually funding apprenticeships for the five year partnership “to enable underrepresented young people to access fulfilling careers across a range of industries.”

During his professional life Jamal was committed to helping others as he set up the music platform SBTV in 2006 and his work contributed to the success of a number of UK music acts, which also include Jessie J. The late star was also an ambassador of the Prince’s Trust, which is a charity set up by the Prince of Wales.

The 57-year-old actress is busier than ever 26 years after finding fame as bubbly Essex blonde Tracey Stubbs in hit sitcom Birds Of A Feather

From Bird to Woman, Linda Robson has much to crow about over the course of her 30-year TV career.

Now 57 – and busy juggling two prime-time jobs – the actress is busier than ever and credits a new “reverse ageism” for her lot.

Twenty-six years after finding fame as bubbly Essex blonde Tracey Stubbs in the hit BBC sitcom Birds Of A Feather, Linda is now an ITV Loose Woman.

She has also reprised her Birds role – alongside cast originals Pauline Quirke and Lesley Joseph – on the newly ­recommissioned series for ITV.

It comes after a “quiet period” that lasted some seven years, during which time she struggled to find work.

So why the change in fortunes?

“I think the tide is changing now, I really do,” Linda explains.

“Films like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, with absolutely brilliant people like Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, have helped changed the perception of older people on TV.

“It’s a weird thing because when we approached the BBC with the new Birds script, they said we needed to bring some young blood into it. They didn’t think three middle-aged women would be able to keep an audience.

“But research ITV has done now has shown that’s not the case – people just want to see the three women really. They’re not as interested in the younger ones.”

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Linda adds: “I’m not sure why, but it seems fashionable to be older now. Everyone’s got a mum, everyone’s got a nan – people can all identify.

“I think people like that they can see their mums or their nans in us, and that’s a good thing.

“I had a few years when I was quiet because nothing was coming in work-wise and then, all of a sudden, it did.

“Now it’s really, really busy. In fact, I’m trying to not take on any more work so I can have a holiday with the family.”

A keen campaigner for the presence of older women on screen, Linda has been quick to ensure a more realistic perception of the over 50s.

She says: “The producers are really good, and listen to what we have to say in script meetings.

“Quite often we’ll have ideas for storylines which they’ll implement.

“For example, it was my idea for Tracey to have a cancer scare because cancer affects one in three people, especially women of a certain age. Also, in the set, everywhere you go there’s a pair of glasses, HRT patches lying around or a pair of tweezers.

“One scene saw me plucking my chin because every woman plucks their chin in middle age but it’s not something that ever gets spoken about.

“In my house it’s just part of my everyday routine. It was ­important to all three of us that we got these little things right in the show.”

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While her character may have had a recent health scare, Linda has never been fitter. She recently lost three stone, inspired by her co-star Pauline’s own incredible shrinking woman act, which saw the 55-year-old shed more than 8½ stone on the Lighter Life programme.

So North London-born Linda signed up and was soon back to her fighting weight. She has also upped her exercise regime after signing up to scale Ben Nevis at the end of the month.

Linda is doing the hike to raising money for charity Children With Cancer, for whom she is an ambassador.

“Women of a certain age, we go through times of putting on a little bit of weight and then losing it,” she says.

“Pauline and I are healthy eaters now – we’ve both completely changed our diets. But while Pauline has always liked fish, I’ve had to make myself like it.

“So we have quite a lot of salmon, cod or dover sole now – anything that doesn’t look too fishy.

“I never have any fried food now, I don’t eat red meat and I have loads of vegetables – my only downfall is good bread, which I love.”

After starting her acting career as a child – paying 10p a lesson for drama lessons with a family friend – Linda first arrived on our TV screens in 1976.

She was, briefly, in the second series of the original BBC Survivors drama, before landing a part in ITV’s The Crezz, co-starring Bob Hoskins, Peter Bowles and Joss Ackland.

Minor roles followed for Linda, including parts in Crossroads and IRA drama Harry’s Game.

But it was in Birds Of A Feather – which originally ran for nine years and, at its peak, secured 26 million viewers – that she shot to fame.

The mum-of-three is, by her own admission, “not educated, not well read, but street-wise”.

And Linda is happy to wax lyrical about basically anything from, well, waxing to white wine on the goss-fest that is Loose Woman.

Affectionately known as Baggy Mouth on the show, her indiscretions regularly land her in hot water.

She laughs: “I never know what I’m going to say – it’s literally just the first thing that comes into my head.

“I have been in trouble so many times, though. I mentioned that my husband, Mark, has his back waxed. He wasn’t too happy about that.”

While the Women are currently doing their bit for literacy rates across the UK with their inaugural book club, Loose Books, Linda regularly finds herself featuring in another kind of tome – women’s magazines.

She sighs: “The other week I mentioned how I wouldn’t have Botox, but that the only bit of me I didn’t really like was the droopy bits over my eyes.

“The next week, across a magazine cover, it was something ridiculous like ‘Linda’s secret cosmetic surgery’.

“I’ve not had anything done – the only procedure I’ve had is both lenses in my eyes replaced.

“It cost £3,000 per eye but was so worth it. Before, my whole life revolved around glasses but now I have 20:20 vision. It’s amazing.”

Linda will discuss her chosen book with the panel today on Loose Women at 12.30pm on ITV.

Show’s book club has been an instant success story

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Loose Books has become a huge hit with viewers since its introduction last month.

Each panellist picks a title every month and Coleen Nolan’s choice – Paula Hawkins’ The Girl On The Train – went to No1 in the book charts days after the show aired.

Linda’s selection – We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler – will be discussed on today’s show.
Linda says: “I usually go for biographies so this isn’t my usual kind of book, but my son put me on to it. And it’s great.”

Next up will be David Nicholl’s bestseller Us, the choice of Andrea McLean.

She says: “It makes you cringe in places as the outsider looking in from above.”

Reece Dunford was the ringleader of a violent gang who used axes and sledgehammers to crack open display cabinets and make off with watches, gems, handbags and shoes

The nephew of TV star Linda Robson has been jailed over a string of smash and grab raids on luxury stores.

Reece Dunford was the ringleader of a violent gang who used axes and sledgehammers to crack open display cabinets and make off with watches, gems, handbags and shoes.

In one raid, the mob dressed in burkas to attack Selfridges jewellery department in Central London.

Birds of a Feather actress Linda wrote a character reference for Dunford, 31, who admitted 10 raids.

In one, the gang fled with £300,000 of Rolex watches from a store in the City of London after threatening terrified staff with sledgehammers.

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Dunford’s model ­girlfriend Hollie Dowding, 25, sold on stolen designer gear including Prada ­handbags and Jimmy Choo shoes.

Judge Elaine Coello told Dunford: “You are the link between the defendants. For all intents and purposes this was Dunford and Co, although this ­business was deeply criminal.”

Dunford, of Waltham Abbey, Essex – and said to suffer depression – was jailed for 12 years.

Girlfriend: Hollie Dowding sold on designer shoes and handbags ( 
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Hatton Garden jeweller Yair Cohen, 71, also flogged gems passed on to him by the crook.

Yair Cohen: Hatton Garden jeweller, who sold on gems for Dunford ( 
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We’re not so sure their kids will be happy about their mums getting so candid about the birds and the bees live on telly

No topic is off limits on Loose Women and that includes embarrassing the hell out of their children.

The panel revealed just how they approached the awkward birds and the bees chat – that private moment between parent and child – live on air and with thousands of viewers watching.

Presenter Ruth Langsford admitted she was gearing herself up for the big talk with her son Jack, 13, because husband Eamonn Holmes doesn’t like “smutty talk”.

Discussing how children are more likely to practise safe sex if the mother gives that all important chat, Ruth shared: “Well in my house I say thank goodness for me, because honestly if Eamonn said ‘willy’ he’d go bright red.

Ruth said she was ready for the birds and the bees

“He can’t cope. Any sort of smutty talk as he calls it, he starts tutting like an old man. I know it will have to be me.”

She added: “I have practised my non-shocked face. Because what they know now at 13, and 14, is unbelievable.”

Birds of a Feather actress Linda Robson even went on to reveal the moment she took her own daughter to the doctors for contraception.

Linda said she knew when her daughter Lauren, who is now 31 and a mother herself, was going to have sex and prepared her accordingly.

Linda said she prepared her daughter
“I knew when Lauren had had a boyfriend for quite a while at about 16 or 17 that I knew something was probably going to happen. So I had that conversation with her and took her to get the pill, and the same with Louis as well.”

And of course Janet Street Porter had her own tale to tell of losing her virginity, explaining: “I was desperate to lose my virginity and on the night I lost my virginity my mum was in hospital and I went to see her later on and she knew. She gave me that look, they can tell.”

Coleen Nolan even confessed that her kids had taught HER about the birds and the bees saying, “they know more than me”.

Birds of a Feather star Linda became emotional on the show as she talked about her sister’s tough few years

Linda Robson broke down as she thanked viewers for their support since her sister’s cancer diagnosis.

The Birds of a Feather actress began Friday’s Loose Women with a special message of thanks to viewers who had taken the time to send well-wishes to her sister who had recently been diagnosed with cancer.

Emotional Linda said: “I’d just like to say thank you to everyone for all the tweets I’ve had about my sister Tina.

“She lost her husband 18 months ago, he had a heart attack and died in front of her and then a year later she got diagnosed with breast cancer.

Linda thanked viewers for sending their well-wishes for her sister

Linda’s co-hosts piled on the hugs when Linda was overcome with emotion

“So just when you think things can’t get worse, they get even worse,” she added as she began to choke up.

“But anyway, it’s grade two and she’s had her chemo and she’s had a lumpectomy and she’s now having radiotherapy and it’s all looking really really good.

“So thank you very much to everyone who’s tweeted and sent support for her and everything. Thank you.”

Linda’s fellow Loose Women then rallied around their friend and gave her a massive hug and the show went to a break.

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She spoke about cancer earlier this year when she appeared on TV to talk about her late mum Rita who passed away two-and-a-half years ago after being diagnosed with stomach cancer.

She discussed the impossible decision her family faced after doctors recommended Rita, who weighed just 6-stone and had symptoms of dementia, didn’t have any treatment because she was too frail to have surgery or chemotherapy.

Linda explained: “The doctors told us she was simply too frail for an operation or chemo.

Linda has been a vocal supporter of cancer charities since her mum’s death from the illness

“She never stopped recognising us, thank God. But she just wouldn’t eat in the end, all she’d agree to eat was sweets or strawberry milkshake.

“She was in the Marie Curie Hospice in Hampstead for the last few months, and she hated the staff washing her – she was a private person.

“We’d arrive to find her yelling at the nurses who were trying to help her bathe. The staff never once lost their patience, and always treated us and our mum with such respect.”

After the success of Peter Andre and Craig Revel-Horwood earlier this month the two popular daytime hosts are set to appear on the show

Jeremy Kyle and Eamonn Holmes are set to take their seat on the Loose Women panel.

Regular presenter Linda Robson let the secret slip when she revealed at an event that they had both been asked and said yes.

After the success of the special which saw Peter Andre and Craig Revel-Horwood join the ladies , the two outspoken daytime hosts have been lined up.

The Bird of a Feather actress said at an awards do: “I think Eamonn Holmes and Jeremy Kyle will be joining Loose Women. I hope I don’t get into trouble for saying that!

Jeremy Kyle was apparently asked by Linda if he would join the panel ( 
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Eamonn turned up to surprise his wife Ruth ( 
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“While we were interviewing Kyle last week I was asked by producers to ask him if he’d be a Loose Man, and he said yes,” she told Digital Spy.

Well looks like the secret’s out now, and we can imagine Eamonn will be dying to dish all on his wife Ruth Langsford.

Jeremy was on the show last week when he was told by Katie Price that he helped ‘save her marriage’.

Linda Robson let the secret slip

He was dismayed to hear Katie broadcast all the personal details of her marriage breakdown but admitted he was glad he’d been able to help.

The host of the Jeremy Kyle Show hit it off so much with Katie that there was rumours he was flirting with the mum-of-five.

She shot down those rumours on Loose Women today when she explained that she had just been enjoying a drink with the TV host at the National Television Awards.

Eamonn is very familiar with the show as his wife Ruth regularly anchors the panel.

He has popped up a couple of times to surprise his wife and even turned up on set and brought her flowers a few weeks ago.

Kicking cigarettes is hard. Actress Linda Robson, 57, tells the Sunday Mirror how she finally stubbed out the habit

I spent 18 months trying to hide my smoking habit from my family.

After 17 years off the fags, I’d had a sly puff at my 50th birthday party and within a week I was smoking 40 Marlboro menthol a day.

After being denied for so long, it was like I couldn’t get enough.

But I couldn’t tell my husband and three children I’d picked up the habit again because smoking, heart disease and cancer were an unhappy part of our family history.

I’d had my first cigarette on a school trip when I was 12 or 13.

I was very young but nobody really knew the health implications back then. It was seen as cool rather than dangerous.

My parents both smoked ­unfiltered cigarettes which took a big toll on their health.

My mum Rita had two heart attacks directly due to smoking. One was just before my husband Mark and I married in 1990 and we had to put back our wedding.

She was lucky to survive them but took medication for the rest of her life until she died of cancer in 2012, aged 75.

My dad Bobby wasn’t so lucky.

He died within a week of being diagnosed with lung cancer in 1997 , shortly after my youngest daughter was born.

He was only 57 – the same age I am now. It was when he died that I’d given up cigarettes the first time round.

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But aged 50, they had caught me in their grip again.

To hide my secret vice, I sprayed myself with perfume, peeled oranges to cover the smell of smoke on my fingers and took the dog for long walks so I could have a sneaky puff.

Soon it started to affect every aspect of my life. Wondering when I could sneak a sly cigarette dominated my thoughts.

One day my son Louis, 24, caught me smoking in the garage and told me he wouldn’t tell anyone as long as I stopped. I felt like a naughty child and promised I would – but still carried on.

I was at a family wedding a few months later when my daughter Bobbie, 19, looked through a patio window and caught me puffing away.

She burst out crying, asked how I could start smoking again and accused me of not caring about the family by putting my health at risk.

I promised I would stop but, as anyone who smokes knows, I was in the grip of addiction.

Another time I took the dog for a walk and my husband Mark unexpectedly walked round the corner with Bobbie.

I quickly put the cigarette – still lit – in my jacket pocket and set my coat alight.

I’d been well and truly caught but it wasn’t until my eldest daughter Lauren, 32, sat me down for a serious talk in 2010 that I finally quit.

She told me she was trying to get pregnant and wouldn’t let me look after her baby if I didn’t stop smoking.

That was the push I needed.

I went to the GP for advice, joined a local support group and started taking a nicotine nasal spray.

It wasn’t easy but I feel so much healthier now.

When I was smoking I had that horrible little cough you get in the mornings, I was out of breath and my skin looked dreadful.

I’m so glad I’m not only able to hold my three-year-old granddaughter Lila but that Lauren lets me look after her because I kept my promise to give up.

Unfortunately, I’m still addicted to nicotine replacement therapy and need to have a few puffs of a nasal spray whenever I’m stressed.

I had to take the spray with me on I’m A Celebrity in 2012. But my doctor says it’s okay as long as it keeps me away from 40 a day.

Nicotine addiction is a powerful thing. I’d never tell smokers that it was easy to quit, but it has been worth it.

The ladies certainly pushed the boundaries on the ITV daytime show while discussing exactly how they got their other half in the mood for love

Linda Robson ended up groping her own boobs in front of her shocked fellow Loose Women panelists.

The ladies were out of control on today’s show as they discussed their ‘come to bed’ faces and ended up collapsed in giggles as they shared tactics.

But it was Linda who went too far when she joked that to get her husband in the mood for love she would tweak her nipples and pull a sex face.

Nadia Sawalha wasn’t prepared for her pal’s actions and screamed: “I don’t think you can do that!”

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Linda looked a little puzzled that she’d been told off for getting carried away after the ladies had just been talking about their sex lives.

Nadia bizarrely revealed that she liked it when her other half Mark “reverses the car” in a specific way, and would more than likely get up to some risqué behaviour if her car had tinted windows.

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The ladies clearly entertained their viewers over their frank admissions and Andrea McLean struggled to even complete her link into the ad break for laughing.

One viewer said: “@LindaRobson58 ‘s ‘come to bed face’ has made my day. Wonder if it gets Mark going?

Details of a storyline remain top secret – as does a location – but Pauline Quirk says she’s expecting ‘mayhem’ from the one-hour special

Apart from some Downton Abbey specials, ITV ­gen­­­­erally throws in the towel at Christmas.

But we are delighted to hear that, for the first time in nearly 20 years, they are filming a Christmas special of Birds of a Feather abroad.

The hour-long sitcom will delight its millions of fans.

Pauline Quirke, who starred as Sharon Theodopolopodous, said: “Us birds together abroad can only mean one thing – mayhem!”

On-screen sister Linda Robson said: “The storyline is brilliant and we’re all so looking forward to an amazing adventure.” Lesley Joseph, who plays Dorien Green, said: “I’m excited to be flying abroad again with the birds. I can’t wait to put the nails back on.”

Details of the storyline are top secret for now but we’re told the plot revolves around “mayhem and mishap” on the trip overseas.

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The venue is somewhere warm and sunny but we are assured it is “definitely not Benidorm” – so that is one ITV crossover that is not happening, even if it might have helped the budget.

The Christmas return of Birds of a Feather is also good news for fans because there is sadly no new series of the sitcom in January.

ITV has struggled to get the busy trio of actresses together and has only now managed to confirm enough time to film the 60-minute December special.

Talks are now taking place, in the hope that there could be a full series later in 2017.

Since its comeback on ITV in January 2014 after 15 years away, the show has continued to be a huge hit, drawing audiences of more than seven million.

For that reason alone we think the Birds will fly high in the ratings if bosses give them a Christmas Day slot around 9pm.