Eamonn Holmes is one of the longest-serving breakfast television anchors in the world. Born in Belfast in 1959, he cut his teeth as a reporter at Ulster Television in 1979, before earning his name as the frank and affable steady hand of morning TV. He has been a co-host on GMTV, Sky News Sunrise, This Morning, with his wife Ruth Langsford, and now GB News. Holmes is raising awareness for the campaign Understanding Shingles during Shingles Awareness Week.
This was me aged 19. It was a publicity shot for my first job in television as an agricultural reporter on the Farming Ulster programme. It was snowing that day in Ballyclare, and I’d not had much contact with animals before this moment. Suddenly I’m holding a lamb and feeling a little bit timid. The lamb ended up being more timid than me: it piddled down the front of the new jacket I was wearing. I got bitten by a pig that day, too.
