OHMYGOSSIP — Eamonn Holmes has blasted ITV and Phillip Schofield.
The 62-year-old presenter claims he was “dropped” by ITV but they tried to make it look as if he had quit for GB News, where he now hosts the breakfast show with Isabel Webster.
He told The Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine: “No one explained anything to me.
“I’m all for TV companies being able to choose who works for them, but it would be nice if you were told why you were going.
“They’re sly. They didn’t want to announce that I’d been dropped because it would adversely affect audience figures, so they made it look as if I’d walked away from them rather than the other way round.
“They had a chat with my agent and announced that I was going to GB News when they’d done no more than ask if I’d be interested in joining them.
“I’m not going to have myself derided as some sort of has-been. I may be male and pale but I’m still at the top of my game.”
Eamonn – who previously co-hosted ITV’s Friday edition of ‘This Morning’ with his wife Ruth Langsford and covered for Schofield and Holly Willoughby during their absences – also hit out at Phillip for interrupting Ruth on air back in 2019.
He said: “Phillip is renowned for snubbing people. He’s very passive-aggressive. It’s up to Ruth to say how she felt, but I was feeling hurt for her. No one would have snubbed me like that.
“I have a good Belfast street fighter in me… I would be direct. I don’t go for presenters who think they have a special privilege or aura or influence.”
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