Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford have SPLIT and will get a divorce after work ‘took them in different directions’
TV golden couple Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford have split and are to divorce, The Sun on Sunday can reveal.
A spokesperson for the couple said in a statement to The Sun on Sunday: “Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes have confirmed their marriage is over and they are in the process of divorcing.”
The much-loved presenting duo are negotiating a divorce in news which will devastate their millions of fans.
Pals told how the couple drifted apart in recent months.
Their work commitments “took them in different directions”, sources said.
But the pair were determined to stay friends and “keep things amicable”.
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They wed in 2010.
But in a sign of their determination to keep things amicable, she has been helping nurse him back to good health following a medical scare which resulted in him spending time in hospital.
Days ago the 64-year-old Loose Women host updated fans by saying: “I look at Eamonn, who’s had his health and back problems, and it makes you realise how important your health is.
“I don’t know how much Eamonn’s mobility will improve. We live in hope. He does the physio, but there might have to be some acceptance that this might never be 100 percent right.”
Ruth, who presented This Morning on ITV1 with her hubby for 15 years, told how Eamonn endured an operation on his back which went wrong, confining him to a wheelchair. At one point, he fell and broke his shoulder.
Giving no hint to the fractures in their relationship, she went on: “It’s testing, but we manage as a family.”
In a further poignant sign of their plans to stay close, earlier this month Eamonn, 64, reposted a snap on Instagram of he and Ruth in happier times. A photographer had previously shared a picture of the couple, calling them, ‘The best in the business’.
The pair first met in 1997 when they were introduced by mutual friends and they dated for over a decade before Eamonn popped the question.
In 2002, she gave birth to their son, Jack Alexander Holmes. They got married at Elvetham Hall in Hampshire in 2010 and sold the rights to glossy mag Hello.
They won millions of fans presenting ITV’s This Morning together between 2006 and 2021. He has lately been starring on the breakfast show on GB News.
But some fans began speculating about the couple’s relationship earlier this year after he revealed he had “loads to think about''. He added a black and white image of himself looking pensive.
Eamonn’s repost was the first time he had shared a picture of himself with Loose Women host Ruth for weeks.
The pair had not been seen together for several months, causing viewers to speculate. Fans questioned Ruth’s whereabouts in one of Eamonn’s family snaps.
The broadcaster proudly shared a picture of his son Declan, daughter-in-law Jenny, and their two daughters Emilia and Isabella from the latter's christening.
The post caused some followers to wonder if Ruth had joined him at the family event. "Where is your wife Eamonn Holmes?" one asked.
It emerged she spent the day enjoying an Easter egg hunt in the park followed by tucking into lunch at the pub with her friends.
Ruth had only publicly commented on Eamonn's health several days ago, saying her hubby would never be “100 per cent right”.
She told Woman’s Weekly: “I look at Eamonn, who’s had his health and back problems, and it makes you realise how important your health is.
“I don’t know how much Eamonn’s mobility will improve.
She continued: "We live in hope
“He does the physio, but there might have to be some acceptance that this might never be 100 per cent right.”
Eamonn is also facing a tax battle with HMRC and was "forced" to give up a house in his hometown of Belfast.
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The HMRC first launched their investigations in 2018, and a tribunal two years later ruled Eamonn was employed at ITV while hosting This Morning - not working as a freelancer.
In response, the GB New presenter launched two appeals against the tax man, which cost him "hundreds of thousands of pounds" to settle legal fees.
