Eamonn Holmes says ITV ‘most woke station of them all’
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Eamonn Holmes, 63, has slammed the BBC’s “laughable obsession” with youth as he reflected on his own sacking from the broadcaster. The GB News star presented The Eamonn Holmes Show on Radio 5 Live every Saturday morning for six years from 2003.
Even though he says his viewing figures were “very good”, his boss axed him because he was “attracting the wrong people”, older people.
In a new interview, Eamonn shone a light on the recent controversial exits of several high-profile Radio 2 stars.
Most recently, Ken Bruce quit the station after 31 years following the departures of Ken Bruce, Paul O’Grady and Vanessa Feltz.
Eamonn remarked: “It is laughable this obsession that television has with youth and the BBC recently, you know, getting rid of people in pursuit of this audience that doesn’t exist.
“The fact that young people are going to listen to Radio 2 is completely laughable anyway, so they pursue an audience that doesn’t exist for them by getting rid of people who are really good at what they do,” he told Kaye Adams on her How To Be 60.
Expanding on his own experience working for the BBC, Eamonn continued: “I remember being in my early 50s and being got rid of by Radio 5 because my figures were very good on a Saturday morning and everything was excellent.
“But the boss man brought me out for lunch and basically said, ‘Your figures are brilliant, but they are attracting the wrong kind of people, you are attracting older people and we don’t want that’.
“So I went, ‘Oh fine’. We lasted the first course which was soup and then I basically told him to f**k off and that was the end of that.”
Eamonn’s contract was not renewed in 2009 and his Saturday morning slot was filled by Danny Baker.
This is not the only unfortunate experience Eamonn has had with a boss during his decades-long career.
In his Express column, the former This Morning presenter described a “bullying boss” from his early career who “threw a ceramic cup” at him.
Then, Eamonn goes on: “When that didn’t get a reaction he threw a desktop telephone.
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“His closing act was to then slam a heavy metal Adler typewriter towards my feet.
“That one got the desired effect he was looking for. I burst into tears.”
Eamonn explained he was just 20 years old when the incident took place.
Then, it was resolved when another boss “grabbed him by the neck and thumped him”.
The Belfast-born presenter writes: “I didn’t have a problem again.”
Eamonn Holmes hosts GB News’ Breakfast daily from 6am.
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