Eamonn Holmes

Eamonn Holmes OBE (born 3 December 1959) is a broadcaster and former journalist from Northern Ireland. Holmes co-presented GMTV for 12 years between 1995 and 2005, before presenting Sky News Sunrise for 11 years between 2005 and 2016. Between 2006 and January 2021, he co-hosted This Morning with his wife Ruth Langsford on Fridays, and since 2021, during the summer holidays only. He has also presented Good Morning Britain (2016-2017), Gift Wrapped and How the Other Half Lives (2015-present) and It's Not Me, It's You. He is currently a presenter for GB News. Holmes is an advocate of numerous charities and causes including Dogs Trust, Variety GB and Northern Ireland Kidney Patients' Association.

Eamonn Holmes OBE
Holmes in 2013

Early life and education

Holmes was educated at Holy Family Primary School and St Malachy's College, Belfast. He then studied journalism at the Dublin College of Business Studies. He had a wife named Gabrielle Holmes (now ex-wife), but they did not fell in love so that's why he had another wife named Ruth Langsford (now Ruth Holmes).