Eamonn Holmes claims his controversial remark regarding coronavirus was the reason he and wife Ruth Langsford were sacked from This Morning after 15 years.
The couple left This Morning in 2020, and Eamonn, 63, went onto work at GB News while Ruth, 63, has continued to work with ITV on Loose Women and other shows. In the midst of the Phillip Schofield scandal, the Irish broadcaster has not held back when discussing his former employer and claims one sentence led to him being axed.
Speaking to Dan Wootton on GB News earlier this week, Eamonn claims he was sacked from the broadcaster after complaints flooded in for his comments on 5G. Recalling his firing, Eamonn said he was sacked "without warning" and ITV bosses were "never kind" to him.
Prior to his departure, broadcasting regulator Ofcom received over 750 complaints after Eamonn questioned why the "mainstream media" had shut down alleged links between 5G and the coronavirus outbreak.
"They weren't kind when they tossed me out of the door and didn't care where I was going," Eamonn raged. He added that it "seem to be a political element" as he "wasn't found guilty of anything".
Speaking about the incident, Eamonn recalled, "I said, 'You should always be free to question the narrative.' Apparently, that was the equivalent of me saying, '5G spreads Covid'".
At the time of these remarks, Ofcom branded his comments as "ill-judged" as the claims "lacked the support of any scientific, or other, evidence".
An Ofcom spokeswoman said: "In our view, the presenter's ambiguous comments were ill-judged, and risked undermining viewers' trust in advice from public authorities and scientific evidence.
"After taking into account the co-presenter's firm rejection of the claims earlier in the programme, the discussion being about 'fake news' and the presenter clarifying his comments on air the following day, we have decided to issue guidance to ITV and its presenters."
Eamonn blamed viewers for "misinterpreting" his comment and told the Mirror in 2022: "I still stand by those remarks because not once did I say 5G spreads coronavirus.
"I said that as reporters, we should always question the narrative. And that has never been more obvious than under the No10 regime that has existed from then and beyond."
He added: "I wish somebody would show me the email or the letter or that I was sent to say, 'Eamonn, this is why this is coming to an end'. But to tell lies, that I left them to go to GB News... I didn't - they left me. Let's get it straight. They left me. I don't care, because our audience is only up."
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