A well knownn TV presenter who worked with Eamonn Holmes has revealed what he was really like when the cameras stopped rolling.
The famous media personality, 66, is most recognisable for presenting ITV’s This Morning with his ex-wife Ruth Langsford, 65, before famously splitting after 14 years of marriage.
When Anthea Turner, 65, joined him on the Good Morning sofa back in 1994, she claims he looked down on her training and became jealous of her success.
At the peak of her TV career, she hosted the National Lottery Live between 1994 and 1996, which reportedly rubbed Eamonn the wrong way.
‘Eamonn is a trained journalist and I’m not. That caused tension from the start… The other thing was I didn’t have my ass on that sofa for very long before I was asked to present the too, and I think that also annoyed him,’ she told The Times.
A major TV presenter who worked with Eamonn Holmes has revealed what he was really like when the cameras stopped rolling (pictured in 2024)
When Anthea Turner joined him on the Good Morning sofa back in 1994, she claims he looked down on her training and became jealous of her success
Her first appearance on the lottery show became hugely popular attracting 22 million viewers.
But Eamonn allegedly tried to get her sacked by GMTV bosses and branded her as being ‘too ambitious’.
She told The Sun: ‘I was always asked if I was ambitious and, if I said yes, I was made out to be a ruthless person who would walk over anybody to get where I wanted.
‘It would be said that I was hormonal, or I was stamping my feet.’
‘And yet ask that question to a man, and if he’s ambitious, we think: “What a guy”. You’d never hear anyone say that about Eamonn or Philip Schofield. No, they’re just doing their job.’
She added: ‘I thought it was sad. I just wanted to do the job I enjoyed, but unfortunately the roles have to be labelled.’
The pair’s relationship famously nosedived while they hosted GMTV in the 1990s, culminating in Eamonn issuing bosses with an ultimatum which preceded Anthea’s departure from the show.
Anthea quit GMTV in 1996 after Eamonn famously branded her ‘Princess Tippy Toes’, and was replaced by Fiona Phillips.
Anthea previously hosted the National Lottery Live at the peak of her television career between 1994 and 1996
Earlier this year Eamonn reunited with his former nemesis Anthea for a sweet snap posted to Instagram after the pair squashed their 10-year feud
The pair’s relationship famously nosedived while they hosted GMTV in the 1990s, culminating in Eamonn issuing bosses with an ultimatum which preceded Anthea’s departure from the show
Speaking on the Miranda Holder Weekly Fashion Podcast, she said: ‘I haven’t weighed myself down with anything from the past, or any of that negativity.’
She went on to say that nobody ‘likes injustice’ or wishes to be ‘misinterpreted’, adding ‘It hurts, it really hurts’.
As she opened up about the past, she remembered reading about herself and thinking she ‘didn’t know that person’.
And she noted that if it had occurred in the present day, she could have used social media and have had an ‘immediate chance’ to reply to criticism.
At the height of the tension at work, she told how she felt physically sick at the thought of coming to work in the ‘hostile’ environment.
Earlier this year Eamonn reunited with his former nemesis Anthea Turner for a sweet snap posted to Instagram after the pair squashed their 10-year feud.
They eventually made up in 2005 and in 2018, Anthea appeared on This Morning with Eamonn and Ruth and they let bygones be bygones as they addressed their famous feud.
When talking about if you can be friends with an ex, Eamonn said: ‘Well you are an ex of mine and we’re on good terms, some people think we hate each other.’
Anthea joked: ‘Ruth’s not bothered at all.’
Ruth replied: ‘No, we’re married, we’re properly married’, while Anthea quipped: ‘Yes, but we were on screen husband and wife.’
She continued: ‘There is a fine line between hate and love isn’t there? We were chatting in the break, Eamonn and I are a bit lazy and it’s easier to stay friends’, with Ruth Langsford adding it was ‘nice’ they could be.
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