Eammon Holmes names his biggest career achievement as “surviving” in the cut-throat TV industry for four decades.
He said: “The art of tele- vision is surviving. People say ‘what’s your biggest achievement?’ and it’s actually staying the course for 41 years.
“Getting on the conveyor belt, that’s tough, but staying on the conveyor belt is much tougher.”
The TV veteran, 61, and wife Ruth Langsford have been replaced on This Morning’s Friday show by Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary.
Eamonn started his career as a farming reporter on Ulster Television in 1979 before going on to present GMTV and anchor the breakfast programme on Sky News – but he still has things he wants to achieve.
Speaking on the TV show Eamonn Mallie: Face to Face with Eamonn Holmes, he said: “I still have the appetite, I still am as enthusiastic as I’ve ever been.
“I should have been warned it would all be over so quickly.”
Reflecting on his TV peers, he admitted their friendly on-screen personalities are not always the same when the cameras are turned off.
He said: “A lot of people take on a persona and you just have no idea who they are and they are quite false.”
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