Eamonn Holmes to host Good Morning Britain
Eamonn Holmes is to return to the one-time GMTV studio to front current ITV breakfast offering, Good Morning Britain.
Eamonn Holmes joins Kate Garraway for Good Morning Britain
“After the last four months of lie-ins, I feel refreshed and my hips have healed well. Breakfast TV is what I’m best known for so it’s nice to be back doing a short spell of early starts and to be back at my old stomping ground.” – Eamonn Holmes
Holmes, who currently is one of the faces on ITV’s mid-morning magazine show This Morning, will be reunited with two of his past on screen partners, Kate Garraway of GMTV and Charlotte Hawkins from Sky News, when he presents Good Morning Britain later this month.
Holmes, who became a television personality on Northern Ireland’s Channel 3 broadcaster UTV in the 1980s, was the first presenter seen on GMTV, alongside Anne Davies, when the then-new breakfast station took to the air in January 1993. He remained with GMTV for twelve years before moving over to host Sky News’ Sunrise slot for eleven years.
GMTV days: With co-host Lorraine Kelly, who continues to host her own morning show on ITV
Eamonn will join the Good Morning Britain presenting team for four days over Easter (Monday 10th – Thursday 13th April) whilst Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan are on holiday.
As well as his long running association with ITV, Holmes has also hosted several programmes for the BBC including Open Air, a mid-morning programme, on BBC One in the late 1980s and early 90s.
GMTV replaced the original Good Morning Britain which aired from 1983 to 1992. The programme was axed in 2010, and the reborn Good Morning Britain launched following several unpopular versions of Daybreak which failed to lure in the viewers.
“Eamonn and I worked together on the very first edition of GMTV on the 1st January 1993. He’s a phenomenal broadcaster and journalist and it’s great to be able to work with him again on Good Morning Britain this Easter.” – Neil Thompson, Editor of Good Morning Britain
