
"Anchoring my own breakfast show for 11 years has been for me the stuff of boyhood dreams. It was the job I hoped to do as a young Belfast lad - and because of Sky News I got there! Forty five years plus on I have other dreams, and to achieve them I realise that unfortunately I need to step away from the daily studio commitment for a while."
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- He referred to West Ham fans attacking a Manchester United bus as going back to "the type of thing you were seeing that was bad about Hillsborough".
- He suggested a sex addict should become a prostitute in order to monetise her addiction.
- He said that "the problem with Prince" was that he was for girls because he was too flamboyant for boys… the morning after Prince's death.
- During a bizarre interview with Jeremy Corbyn, he asked the following question: "Let's talk football, right. Your man's Arsene Wenger, my man was Alex Ferguson. Even Louis van Gaal now. Do you think they go into the dressing room and they say 'Listen boys how we're going to line up tonight, what are we going to do? You disagree? Do you want to play in goal? Do you want to play in goal?' No, they don't. Fergie always said he had to make it clear there was one boss, he was the boss, that was it. That's not your way of doing things though."
- He once said "whatever you do with your flaps, I'm not sure" in reference to Carol Vorderman's vagina. Literally.
These are merely five instances of the bizarre, childlike mind of Eamonn Holmes. Not childlike in an innocent or curious way. Rather, childlike in the way that a massive, spoilt, bored child might behave. His interview style is like that of a toddler poking his pet dog in the eye repeatedly, safe in the knowledge that it's too tired to ever bite back. Even when he softens up, takes off his tie, and steps in to present This Morning with his wife Ruth, his style barely changes. He discusses human concern and personal trauma with the same flippancy he'd likely utilise while telling you how much Harry Ramsden's chips have gone downhill.
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