Eamonn Holmes reveals the real reason he was fired from ITV’s This Morning

Eamonn Holmes hasn’t been afraid to share his thoughts surrounding Phillip Schofield’s exit from ITV’s This Morning as well as the news about Schofield’s affair with a much younger colleague.

Holmes used to host This Morning with his wife, Ruth Langsford on Fridays for 15 years. However, in 2020, it was announced that the couple would no longer be hosting Friday mornings, instead, they were replaced by Dermot O’Leary and Alison Hammond.

Amid the Schofield scandal, Eamonn Holmes has been speaking his mind a lot on GB News, the latest is him revealing the reason he thinks he was fired from ITV’s This Morning.

Eamonn Holmes was fired in 2020

Eamonn Holmes and his wife, Ruth Langsford hosted Fridays on This Morning for 15 years but were let go in 2020. In a rather explosive interview with GB News, Holmes reveals he was fired from the show after he questioned the link between 5G and Covid-19.

According to Holmes, he had simply said it was okay to question the narrative and was curious as to why ‘mainstream media’ had shut down the link between 5G and Covid-19.

Soon after that episode, Ofcom was bombarded with complaints from viewers, indeed the show had received over 750 complaints.

In his interview, Holmes explains that he was fired ‘without warning’ and that ITV bosses ‘didn't care’ what happened to him.

They weren't kind when they tossed me out of the door and didn't care where I was going.

Eamonn claims that he 'wasn't found guilty of anything’ despite there allegedly being ‘a political element’.

Holmes reiterated the sentence that allegedly got him fired:

I said, 'You should always be free to question the narrative.'

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What is Eamonn Holmes doing now?

Since being sacked from This Morning, the couple have moved on in their careers. Indeed Ruth Langsford still works for ITV and often features on the show Loose Women.

Eamonn Holmes has been a GB News presenter since January 2022. In late 2022, Holmes had to take a break from television after suffering from a shoulder and back injury. The broadcaster returned to the screen in January 2023 after a four-month break.

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Sources used:

Mirror: ‘Eamonn Holmes says single sentence 'cost him and Ruth their This Morning jobs'

Daily Mail: ‘Hopefully work will heal me': Eamonn Holmes announces he is returning to work on GB News after four months off sick with back and shoulder injuries