Ruth Langsford used to host This Morning on Fridays alongside her husband Eamonn Holmes. However, the couple left the ITV talk show in 2021. Since then, Ruth has appeared on ITV’s Loose Women while Eamonn is a host on GB News.
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Sadly, for the last few years, things have not been easy for the couple as Eamonn has been dealing with several health issues that have greatly impacted his life as well as Ruth’s. Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford have been married since 2010 but have been a couple since 1997.
Even though they have been together for over a decade, the two have revealed they still have a very intimate relationship, but it may have been put on hold as Eamonn deals with his health issues.
Ruth Langsford opens up about Eamonn Holmes's health
As mentioned above, Eamonn Holmes has been dealing with several health issues for the last few years. His wife, Ruth Langsford appeared on Loose Women and opened up about its impact on them.
Ruth told fellow Loose Women host Linda Robinson and the others that Eamonn has been ‘needing a lot of help’ recently due to his several operations and falls.
The last two years, you know; back operations, falling down the stairs, crutches, wheelchairs. You know needing a lot of help.
She added that looking after Eamonn during this difficult period is part of marriage as she took her vows ‘in sickness and in health’. She explained that it’s what you do when ‘in a partnership’ and you hope they would return the favour. As per Express, Ruth helps her husband get dressed.
She said, as per Express:
But that is what you do, in sickness and in health. You love somebody and you are in a partnership with them, and you would like to think they would do the same thing back.
Eamonn Holmes has several health issues
It isn’t anything new that Eamonn Holmes has several health issues, indeed the TV presenter has been very open in the past concerning his health. Eamonn has had back pain since 2021 and has been seen using a walking stick because of it.
Holmes had three slipped discs in his back that affected the movement in his right leg, explaining the need for a walking stick. In 2022, he underwent surgery, which went well, but eventually, the GB News presenter had a weakened left leg.
Two weeks after his surgery, Eamonn fell backwards down 18 stairs in his home, as per Daily Mail. Due to the gravity of the fall and the fact that Holmes hit a stone floor at the bottom of the stairs, he ended up breaking his shoulder and both of his legs were weakened.
Eamonn Holmes’s health issues sadly made him miss his mother’s funeral, as reported by Express. Holmes also revealed to The Irish Independent that he was confined to a wheelchair after a back operation went wrong and he was told he may not be able to walk.
In the past year I’ve had an operation on my back which went wrong and has confined me to a wheelchair. I’ve fallen and broken my shoulder. Honestly, you could not make it up.
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Sources used:
Express: ‘Ruth Langsford fights tears on Loose Women as she makes Eamonn health confession’
Daily Mail: ‘Eamonn Holmes reveals he 'can't walk' and is 'not good' as he gives worrying health update... one year after spinal surgery and subsequent horrific fall’
Irish Independent: ‘Eamonn Holmes: I was forced to sell my beloved Belfast home to pay the taxman’
