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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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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 17:07

MrsDTucker · 31/05/2024 17:00

This seems like a bashing thread to me. Strange.

Yes your comment is rather strange.

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 17:07

@LuckySantangelo35 there is if it causes your marriage to breakdown

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Cofaki · 31/05/2024 17:05

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.

I was on their TV show once. Ruth was lovely, genuinely nice and friendly. Eamonn... wasn't. He did all the right things in front of the camera but it was empty, and when they weren't rolling he couldn't have been less interested. He performed well, but he wasn't genuinely nice.

LuckySantangelo35 · 31/05/2024 17:03

RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 14:41

@Myblindsaredown bitter and bazaar?
Not at all.
The situation is sad. But I look at lots of men who grow apart from their wives and leave young families because ambition/career is more important.

It's sad because now he has ill health the first wife would would have probably been there for him and looked after him.
It's just life I guess.

@RosePetalsRose

there is nothing wrong with being focused on your career though

Boomer55 · 31/05/2024 17:02

Approx 155, 000 marriages, a year, break up. For a variety of reasons.

Some second marriages are happy, some not.

Not anyone’s business. Leave them to it. No one knows what goes on behind closed doors.🙄

MrsDTucker · 31/05/2024 17:00

This seems like a bashing thread to me. Strange.

RaverQuavers · 31/05/2024 16:56

i don’t like the fucker so am glad this is all crashing down around him. The second he went on GB news I knew Ruth would see the light

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 16:55

@QueenOfTheLabyrinth you thought it and implied it. Not me. That's your issue.

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 16:54

TwattyMcFuckFace · 31/05/2024 16:34

I can't imagine being this gleeful about any couple splitting up after 27 years, let alone a couple I don't even know.

Have a long hard look at yourself OP.

@TwattyMcFuckFace I am really not gleeful at all. You are the one who is using these horrible words about their marriage. Maybe you need to take a long hard look at yourself.

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Roselilly36 · 31/05/2024 16:47

No one knows what has gone on in their marriage. How awful to be subject to so much speculation and finger pointing. It’s no one else’s business.

CandiedPrincess · 31/05/2024 16:41

Firstly, there's no such thing as karma.

Secondly, a relationship ending after almost three decades is hardly 'reaping what you sow'. Get over yourself.

TwattyMcFuckFace · 31/05/2024 16:34

I can't imagine being this gleeful about any couple splitting up after 27 years, let alone a couple I don't even know.

Have a long hard look at yourself OP.

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.

BirthdayRainbow · 31/05/2024 16:30

RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 15:37

Yes the wife who didn't want to move to the uk because their life was in Ireland. His career was more important to him so they drifted apart.

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Or that's where he needed to be to earn enough to support his wife and three children..

Seriously. What do you say about people you don't "love"?

QueenOfTheLabyrinth · 31/05/2024 16:15

RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 15:56

@QueenOfTheLabyrinth no I didn't in anyway imply that. Only you did and obviously that is your chain of thought not mine.

You might not have intentionally meant to imply that but take what you’re saying to its logical conclusion.

LlynTegid · 31/05/2024 16:01

I don't like him as a presenter, he is also a glory seeking Man United supporter.

His private life is not our business though. It would only possibly be if he was a violent or abusive man, and no suggestion of that has ever been made.

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 15:57

Testina · 31/05/2024 15:46

You seem more bitter about a stranger’s marriage ending than I am about my own 🤣
You have no idea what went on.

Not at all. Sorry you feel that way.

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 15:56

@QueenOfTheLabyrinth no I didn't in anyway imply that. Only you did and obviously that is your chain of thought not mine.

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Summertimer · 31/05/2024 15:47

BirthdayRainbow · 31/05/2024 15:10

They are both 64 so if she is younger it is only by months.

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Exactly

Testina · 31/05/2024 15:46

You seem more bitter about a stranger’s marriage ending than I am about my own 🤣
You have no idea what went on.

QueenOfTheLabyrinth · 31/05/2024 15:43

RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 15:39

@QueenOfTheLabyrinth what are you on about saying he would prefer his son with Ruth to not exist. That's a disgusting thing to suggest and you are the only one who has said it.

No that’s what you’re implying by saying it’s sad he’s not still with his first wife & as she “probably” would have looked after him.

I very much doubt he’s “sad” about it as if they had stayed together, he wouldn’t have Jack. I’m sure he’d rather be alone now & have Jack than to have a carer & not have Jack.

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 15:41

SalmonAndHorseradish · 31/05/2024 14:55

No-one knows what goes on in a relationship behind closed doors. Who knows why his first marriage failed, there were probably many factors. Perhaps Ruth has decided she isn't up for 'in sickness and in health', or perhaps there were already issues in the relationship before he became unwell. They aren't going to share the gritty details with the general public, particularly anything which would paint either of them in a bad light.

'In sickness and in health' assumes the relationship is otherwise happy and healthy. If there were already cracks in their relationship, I don't think she should have to stay just because he has health issues. We see plenty of women on here trapped in unhappy relationships who feel unable to leave because they are carers for their partner. They are always told that they should leave, that they can't give up their lives to stay in a miserable situation for a partner just because he is ill. I'm not saying that is the case here, but that's the point, none of us, unless you know Ruth and Eamonn personally (and perhaps not even then), know the ins and outs of their relationship, and everyone knows the tabloids will write any old nonsense if it gets them clicks. No-one knows what either of them are like in real life - TV presenting is a type of acting, they put on a persona. Speculating is pointless.

If speculating is 'pointless' why are you doing exactly that? Hmmmm

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 15:39

@QueenOfTheLabyrinth what are you on about saying he would prefer his son with Ruth to not exist. That's a disgusting thing to suggest and you are the only one who has said it.

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RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 15:37

BirthdayRainbow · 31/05/2024 14:46

I dread to think what you'd say about those you don't like.

It's not allegedly. They did meet after he split from his wife. The wife who didn't want to move the UK.

Yes the wife who didn't want to move to the uk because their life was in Ireland. His career was more important to him so they drifted apart.

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QueenOfTheLabyrinth · 31/05/2024 15:17

RosePetalsRose · 31/05/2024 14:41

@Myblindsaredown bitter and bazaar?
Not at all.
The situation is sad. But I look at lots of men who grow apart from their wives and leave young families because ambition/career is more important.

It's sad because now he has ill health the first wife would would have probably been there for him and looked after him.
It's just life I guess.

What are you talking about?

He met his first wife when they were only 17 ffs so it’s hardly surprising they grew apart. Also why are assuming he left her? According to his book, it was actually his first wife who became indifferent to him due to the long distance relationship. There’s also nothing to suggest that she wasn’t supportive of him pursuing his career either as the breadwinner. Sometimes no one does anything wrong & everyone has good intentions but then life takes its toll.

He was with his first wife for 18 years & then with Ruth - who is the same age as him - for 27 years so he hardly has a scandalous relationship history.

He also seems to have always had a very good relationship with all three of his children from his first marriage & they also had a very good relationship with Ruth as well.

Your comments are particularly disgusting as you seem to be overlooking the fact that he has a son with Ruth; do you think he’d rather his son didn’t exist?

Also, he’d been separated from his first wife for 2 years before he got together with Ruth so your notion that they’d still be together now & she would “probably” nurse him in his ill health now is laughable.

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