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Eamonn Holmes has said he wishes his ex-wife Ruth Langsford ‘all the best’ in a Christmas message following their divorce.
The TV presenters, who had been together for 27 years but married for 14, ended their relationship in June 2024.
Eamonn, 66, quickly moved on to date relationship counsellor Katie Alexander, who is 22 years his junior.
The former couple and co-stars have largely avoided speaking about each other following their split, but Eamonn has now shared a sweet message for Ruth.
Making a peace offering, Eamonn said: ‘I wish Ruth all the best, she deserves it.’
Speaking at this year’s TRIC Awards last Friday, he also shared his Christmas and New Years plans.
Eamonn added to The Sun: ‘I’m going to be with Katie this Christmas.
‘I’ve never not been in the UK for Christmas, but maybe one year I’ll go away abroad.’
Eamonn added that he hopes to be able to walk in the park with his frame and crutches as he prepares undergo revolutionary pig cell treatment which is hoped will return movement to his legs.
Ruth, 65, shares son Jack, 23, with the GB News presenter, who has three older children from his first marriage.
The Loose Women star has remained single and recently revealed she has been seeing a therapist since their marriage breakdown.
She told woman&home: ‘I started counselling when Eamonn and I separated, and I’m still having it. It is very powerful and very useful. It gives me tools to deal with things.
‘My counsellor has probably seen us on TV, but she doesn’t know either of us so doesn’t get involved and doesn’t judge. She just listens and says, ‘Have you thought about this?’ or ‘Why did you feel like that?’
‘I think I know myself very well, so it has just been calming. It makes me question how I’m feeling. When my sister died, friends suggested counselling and I said, “I don’t [want] just [for someone] to tell me that I’m really sad,” and I still feel like that.
‘The end of a very long relationship takes a lot of unravelling. Counselling helps you move on from it, to not be held back.’
Ruth is also not ruling out finding love again, sharing: ‘I definitely see light in the future where I didn’t before.
‘Before, I saw darkness and was thinking, “Oh my God, what’s going to happen?” but now the fear [has] gone, because what do you do? Do you crumble? Do you lay down and die? Oh no, not I. I will survive.’
Some close to Ruth say that she was fed up with caring for Eamonn following his hip operation but it later emerged that he was in a relationship with Katie– who he had met several years before.
There is no suggestion that Eamonn cheated on Ruth, who appeared as anchors on ITV’s This Morning for a decade before they were axed in 2021.
They are yet to officially divorce and are currently at war over their money, with Ruth apparently upset that they will have to sell the marital home.
Meanwhile, Eamonn says he has been ‘ruined’ by HMRC after he became embroiled in a row with them over whether he was self-employed freelancer or a ‘disguised employee’ of ITV when presenting This Morning between 2011 and 2015.
