Eamonn Holmes says some of his former colleagues are "dead" to him.
Eamonn Holmes says some of his former colleagues are 'dead' to him
The 63-year-old TV presenter insisted it was "good not to like people" and "good to have revenge" at times, during a conversation on 'GB News Breakfast' about revenge and feuds.
Eamonn's co-host Isabel Webster said to him: "You talk a good game about this. You do, you talk a good game about it but actually, all the people in your life that you’ve had ding dongs with in the past, you’re on great terms with now when I think about it."
While Eamonn admitted he can "forgive and forget" some past grievances, he claims some people he has come across in life are "evil".
Speaking on the show, he said: "No, but there’s other people who are dead to me, who have got names that I can’t reveal.
"That’s the thing, I think once you cross that ... well, there are evil people.
"Let’s face it, there are evil people, there are. And in the fight against good and evil - which I am good - the only enemy you want is a defeated enemy."
In June, Eamonn admitted he wants to know why he was let go from 'This Morning'.
He fronted the ITV brunch-time TV show with his wife Ruth Langsford from 2006 until 2022 and while he claims the version of events ITV tells is that he "left them to go to GB News" - which ITV denies - he has accused the channel of "putting out all the lies they want".
He said: "The department of disinformation at ITV can put out all the lies they want. I wish somebody would show me the email or the letter that I was sent to say, ‘Eamonn, this is why this is coming to an end’. But to tell lies, that I left them to go to GB News ... I didn’t – they left me. Let’s get it straight. They left me. I don’t care, because our audience is only up."
Former 'X Factor' presenter Dermot O'Leary and ex-'Big Brother' star Alison Hammond took over the show's Friday slot while Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield remain as regular presenters on Mondays to Thursdays.
Eamonn added that while TV companies are at liberty to do as they please, it has "surprised" him who has been kept.
He said: "You have no right to be there. TV companies can do whatever they want with you. It’s just, sometimes it surprises you, the ones they hold on to."
A spokesperson for ITV said: "This isn’t a version of events that we recognise, and as we have said before we wish Eamonn all of the very best."
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