TV presenters Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes have announced their divorce after 14 years of marriage . The pair have long been a power couple of daytime television, presenting ITV’s lifestyle show This Morning for 15 years from 2006 to 2021. Holmes and Langsford, both 64, began dating in 1996 but kept their relationship secret out of respect for Holmes’s first wife, with whom he shares sons Declan, 35, Niall, 31, and daughter Rebecca, 33.
They married in 2010 and share a son called Jack, who is now 22. Despite their separation, the pair are “determined” to remain friends and “keep things amicable”. Following their divorce announcement , here is a timeline of Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes’ relationship, thriving TV career and eventual separation: Holmes and Langsford met through their mutual friend, television presenter Sally Meen, in 1997.
When they started dating, they kept their romance secret out of respect for Holmes’ first wife, Gabrielle Holmes, who he had split from two years earlier. “I thought it spoke volumes about the sort of man he was, the sort of father he was and the integrity he had. It made me love him more, not less,” Langsford told the Daily Mail in 2017 of Holmes’ choice to keep their relationship private.
The pair made their relationship public two years later. Langsford and Holmes welcomed their son Jack in 2002. Langsford revealed on social media in 2020 that she’d discovered she was pregnant with Jack the day before her god.
