EAMONN Holmes has admitted he would return to ITV – but only if his ‘enemies’ quit.
Eamonn and wife Ruth Langsford were brutally axed from This Morning last year after more than a decade on the show, and it left a bad taste in the veteran broadcaster’s mouth.
Despite moving on to a hosting role on GB News, Eamonn hasn’t completely ruled out a return to ITV, but on one condition.
Speaking to The Daily Star: “I’d work for ITV again. There would have to be an apology and a couple of resignations.
“I’m not stupid. I know that in this industry it’s not about what I want to do.
“None of us has a right to be in a job. It’s about what channels want to do.”
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Earlier this week, Eamonn picked up the News Presenter of the Year gong at the star-studded TRIC Awards inside London’s Grosvenor House.
Taking aim at his old bosses during a Q&A in the winners’ room, Eamonn ranted: “The ministry of lies, their press office, of course, which chunder out the same sort of… yeah, the ministry of lies.
“So the point is I did not resign from ITV, ITV resigned from me, and I never received a single explanation once of why they wanted rid of me, so that was that.
“No matter what you’ve been told. And also the sort of stuff that comes out: ‘Eamonn believes he’s male, pale and stale’. It doesn’t look like it, does it? Eamonn never once said it, ITV press office said that.”
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The 62-year-old insisted he’s “never slagged off ITV”, instead he claimed he’s simply been ‘telling the truth’.
He also shot down accusations that his outbursts are awkward for his wife Ruth, who is still working for ITV’s Loose Women.
“Ruth is Ruth and I’m me,” he said.
Asked whether he thought GB News’ breakfast show could end up trumping Piers Morgan’s record viewer figures on Good Morning Britain, Eamonn replied: “Oh god yes.”
He went on: “You wouldn’t be doing what you do if you don’t think you’re the best at what you do. So of course, if you don’t think you can overtake them you shouldn’t be doing it.
“I just think our standards are raising. We are the people’s channel… so hopefully we will overtake them next year.”
