Ruth Langsford

Ruth Wendy Langsford (born 17 March 1960) is an English television presenter, best known for her various roles with ITV.

Since 2006, she has co-presented the ITV lifestyle programme This Morning with her husband Eamonn Holmes. The couple also presented game show Gift Wrapped in 2014 and How the Other Half Lives in 2015.

Early life

Langsford was born in Singapore to father Dennis and mother Joan. She lived in ten different countries before the age of ten including Germany. She married Eamonn Holmes in 2010 and has a son Jack with him.

Career

Television

Langsford began her career as a continuity announcer and newscaster with ITV regional station TSW in the South West England. She left TSW when Westcountry Television took over the franchise on 1 January 1993, even closing down the station with fellow announcer, Ian Stirling.

From 1999 until 2002, Langsford was a regular panellist on ITV's daytime chat show Loose Women. In 2010, she returned to the show as a stand-in anchor until 2013. Langsford rejoined Loose Women on 8 January 2014 as a regular anchor.

Loose Women

Loose Women is a British panel show that has been broadcast on ITV since 6 September 1999. The programme focuses on a panel of four female presenters, who interview celebrities, discuss their lives and discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs, to celebrity gossip.

Loose Women is part of the ITV daytime programming schedule, airing on weekdays from 12:30−1:30pm.

The programme has been simulcast in the Republic of Ireland on UTV Ireland since January 2015.

Presenters

See List of Loose Women episodes for presenters per episode.

The panel comprises four women from various professions in the entertainment and journalism industries.

Carol McGiffin holds the record for the most appearances; she appeared in 1172 episodes between 2003 and 2013, followed by Andrea McLean, Coleen Nolan, Sherrie Hewson, Jane McDonald, Kaye Adams and Denise Welch respectively.

Series 1–3

Adams and Nadia Sawalha were the original anchors on the show. Sawalha left in 2002, after the birth of her first child; Adams kept the role for the first ten series until the end of 2006, when she left to go on maternity leave.

Eamonn Holmes

Eamonn Holmes (born 3 December 1959) is a journalist and broadcaster from Northern Ireland, best known for presenting Sky News, Songs of Praise and This Morning.

Holmes co-presented GMTV for twelve years between 1993 and 2005, before joining Sky News Sunrise in 2006, which he presents from Monday to Thursday with Isabel Webster. Since 2006, he has co-hosted This Morning with his wife Ruth Langsford on Fridays and during school holidays.

Early life and education

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.

Career

Early career

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.

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