• Eamonn Holmes has left This Morning to join the newsroom at GB News.
• His wife, Ruth Langsford, is having great success as a fashion designer for QVC.
• Eamonn Deyes was about to undergo emergency surgery for a back issue.

Eamonn Holmes has heaped the praise on wife Ruth Langsford as he opened up on life after This Morning.

The Northern Irish broadcaster, 62, worked on the well-liked ITV programme for 15 years, most of them alongside Ruth, also 62.

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Additionally, Ruth, his wife, is having great success in her position as a fashion designer for QVC while he has left for greener pastures at GB News.

When asked about any future working plans the pair may hold, Eamonn praised his wife and said: “Ruth is now phenomenally successful as a fashion designer for QVC.

“She is the second highest selling clothing brand on QVC internationally.

“She spends her time agonising over detail and plans and designs – it must be like being married to Victoria Beckham, you know? It’s all-consuming really.”

After moving, Eamonn acknowledged that he was also surprised by the reaction he received in the GB News newsroom. He commended the staff for their work in expanding the channel.

“The first day I walked in, the newsroom stood up and applauded me and I was very taken aback by that,” he said.

“It meant something to them that I was there.

“In six months the audience has gone up sixfold, I’ve got two award nominations, so that hasn’t been too bad for someone that’s male, pale and stale.”

For the record, Eamonn doesn’t feel any of those things, he said in jest.

Eamonn has a new breakfast time slot and a cooking show called Farm to Feast: Best Menu Wins.

Eamonn Holmes the broadcaster acknowledged that life hasn’t been easy for him off-camera as well, and he was about to undergo emergency surgery for a back issue that had been bothering him for 18 months.

“The problem I’ve had for the last 18 months is discs in my back that have dislocated and protruded on both sides,” Eamonn explained.

“On my right they killed my sciatic nerve in my leg. Then they dislodged on my left side, so last month it was an unexpected hospital admission in Belfast.”

“Your spine is a very delicate thing and if there’s any chance it could go wrong, they shy away. I was scheduled for emergency surgery but in the operating theatre the surgeon thought again, and said, ‘I’m not going to do this’.”

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Instead, he explained how he now receives a steroid injection to assist manage the issue.

While future surgery hasn’t been ruled out, he confessed: “I’m walking about better than I have in ages. I’m not using a crutch or a stick. And I genuinely feel good.”