Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford will spend Christmas apart to be with their mums.
Like many people, the couple did not get to see their elderly relatives much last year due to lockdown.
Belfast man Eamonn, 61, said: “We have this issue now, in that we’ve got a sea dividing us.
“We often have a dilemma of whether I go to Belfast, whether Ruth comes with me.
“But Ruth wants to be with her mum. My mother is 93 this year. It’s easier for us often to be apart.”
Ruth, 61, tells Woman and Home magazine: “I wouldn’t be going to Belfast this year, because I need to be with my mum.”
Her mum Joan lives in a Surrey care home and the presenter was unable to visit her for months last winter. The pair wept when they were reunited earlier this year.
But former GMTV hosts Eamonn and Ruth will spend the run-up to Christmas getting in the festive spirit.
And they love yuletide. Ruth admitted: “I start early. I’m that person who when someone says, ‘Have you seen, such-and-such supermarket has their Christmas things in, and it’s only July,’ I go, ‘Oh, have they? Which branch?’
“Eamonn has regressed into childhood. The older he gets, the more he goes back at Christmas.”
The couple, who have been together for 25 years, were married in 2010.
They have a son Jack, 19. Eamonn has three children from his previous marriage.
