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Eamonn Holmes -reap what you sow

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 11:29

Just want to say that I love Eamonn Holmes so it's not a bashing thread. Just an observation.

I was thinking about his ex wife and children. He left his young family as his career was more important.
He met (allegedly after they split) this beautiful younger attractive exciting Ruth. Got with her.
But now what does he have? He has ailing health and no wife to be with him in sickness and in health?
Who knows if he had made an effort and put his first family first rather than his career he could have been with someone who would have loved and cared for him in his old age.

It's quite sad.

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SillyLemonZebra · 31/05/2024 19:02

Just came on to say I met him in a work capacity about 15 years ago and he is the nicest guy ever. I don’t know what’s happened with he and Ruth (I’m off to Google) but I was super shocked at what a thoroughly lovely man he was. She on the other hand was not so pleasant.

RaverQuavers · 31/05/2024 19:00

BirthdayRainbow · 31/05/2024 19:00

I don't care about you to be disappointed

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Are you ok?

BirthdayRainbow · 31/05/2024 19:00

RaverQuavers · 31/05/2024 18:57

Some of these replies are bonkers. Ignore the oddballs OP!

The irony!

BirthdayRainbow · 31/05/2024 19:00

RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 18:55

@BirthdayRainbow really there is no agenda. I hate to disappoint you. I was just having a discussion.

I don't care about you to be disappointed

BirthdayRainbow · 31/05/2024 18:59

RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 18:54

I didn't say it was an affair. I said 'allegedly'.
At the time they got together there was a lot of speculation about when he actually got with her.

That's why I said 'allegedly' as they 'alledge' they got together at a certain time but the press at the time said different things.

This is such bollocks. They were together for two years before anyone knew. Which was still well after he split with his wife. Because he was being respectful to his ex he didn't hold Roths hand in public for a long time. etc. she said she liked his integrity. It made her love him more.

RaverQuavers · 31/05/2024 18:57

Some of these replies are bonkers. Ignore the oddballs OP!

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 18:55

@BirthdayRainbow really there is no agenda. I hate to disappoint you. I was just having a discussion.

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 18:54

I didn't say it was an affair. I said 'allegedly'.
At the time they got together there was a lot of speculation about when he actually got with her.

That's why I said 'allegedly' as they 'alledge' they got together at a certain time but the press at the time said different things.

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size4feet · 31/05/2024 18:50

BirthdayRainbow · 31/05/2024 18:41

You've said stuff that hasn't been in the press as it is not true.

Yes the OP has some weird agenda. There was no affair. Ruth was not some much younger woman. The OP seems to be reflecting some personal experience onto this couple

Tyiue · 31/05/2024 18:49

Inlimboin50s · 31/05/2024 11:44

I always saw him as friendly and empathetic with people. But then there was something going on years ago with Anthea Turner I think,where he didn't seem to be kind. Who knows. She probably wasn't that easy going.

With Ruth being his carer,she probably just fell in to that role over the years.
I wish them both well.

Friendly and empathetic? Nit from where I stand going by what he has said about Meghan. He's like that Top Gear man whose name I intentionally forget.

BirthdayRainbow · 31/05/2024 18:48

RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 18:42

Which bit?

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That it was an affair

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 18:43

@SallyWD yes I agree I made a mistake on that but as I acknowledged earlier in the thread. I thought she was younger as she looked younger than him.

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 18:42

BirthdayRainbow · 31/05/2024 18:41

You've said stuff that hasn't been in the press as it is not true.

Which bit?

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SallyWD · 31/05/2024 18:42

RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 11:29

Just want to say that I love Eamonn Holmes so it's not a bashing thread. Just an observation.

I was thinking about his ex wife and children. He left his young family as his career was more important.
He met (allegedly after they split) this beautiful younger attractive exciting Ruth. Got with her.
But now what does he have? He has ailing health and no wife to be with him in sickness and in health?
Who knows if he had made an effort and put his first family first rather than his career he could have been with someone who would have loved and cared for him in his old age.

It's quite sad.

They're both 64 so it's hardly like he ran off with someone 20 years younger.

Itsgivingmehvibes · 31/05/2024 18:42

None of what you are saying has been said in the press though

BirthdayRainbow · 31/05/2024 18:41

You've said stuff that hasn't been in the press as it is not true.

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 18:41

Myblindsaredown · 31/05/2024 17:31

Op are you divorced. There is clearly something very wrong with this thread. You keep edging that in some way he did his ex wife wrong. Firstly insinuating he cheated, then insinuating that he should have give up his career aspirations as she didn’t wish to move, even stating bizzarely how she’d have stood by him. Which is pure fantasy.

are you a first wife whose husband has moved on and you’re just really bitter about it so projecting?

Yes that's it absolutely. Well done.

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Jk987 · 31/05/2024 18:40

I doubt his first wife has been sat pining for him.

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 18:37

chippylips · 31/05/2024 17:08

OP you know absolutely nothing about his first marriage. An awful post.

But neither do you. Im just going by what was in the press as do most people.

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 18:35

Myblindsaredown · 31/05/2024 17:38

It’s very clear the op thinks he’s in some way done his ex wife wrong, and if he’d stayed with her, he’d have someone caring for him now. Which is just the oddest thing to think ever

the op,is also gaslighting readers rhat she doesn’t mean what she clearly does.

i can only sssume this is someone unhappily divorced and projecting.

I'm not gaslighting anyone. That is a sting and unnecessary term to use. I was just having a discussion.

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 18:34

Itsgivingmehvibes · 31/05/2024 17:39

Is this EH ex wife

No sorry it's not.

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 18:34

Itsgivingmehvibes · 31/05/2024 18:17

This is either his ex wife or PS

Or maybe someone just having an open discussion.

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 18:33

@DaisyHaites I do apologise if that's how it came across. I really was not meaning to infer that at all.
So sorry you took it that way.

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 18:32

Myblindsaredown · 31/05/2024 17:31

Op are you divorced. There is clearly something very wrong with this thread. You keep edging that in some way he did his ex wife wrong. Firstly insinuating he cheated, then insinuating that he should have give up his career aspirations as she didn’t wish to move, even stating bizzarely how she’d have stood by him. Which is pure fantasy.

are you a first wife whose husband has moved on and you’re just really bitter about it so projecting?

I was just having a discussion.

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Lampzade · 31/05/2024 18:32

CrispieCake · 31/05/2024 16:32

No opinion on EH personally and whether he falls into this bracket, but I think older women are increasingly unwilling to grow into old age with grumpy, lazy and entitled men with whom they can't have a meaningful conversation anymore and in marriages where they shoulder most of the domestic drudgery. I imagine ill health and/or the approach of retirement really brings the issue into focus for many women.

Yep

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