Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford have decided to spend Christmas apart so they can see their mums.
Eamonn and Ruth
It was a bleak Christmas last year as the nation was in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ‘This Morning’ presenters were unable to see their mothers as a result.
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’s mum Joan lives in a care home in Surrey and she was unable to visit her due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Talking to ‘Woman and Home’ magazine, Ruth said: “I wouldn’t be going to Belfast this year, because I need to be with my mum. It’s about family for me”
Despite choosing to spend Christmas apart, the couple will spend the run-up to the festive season taking part in various activities together.
Ruth said: " 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?’"
And Eamonn is just as big a fan of Christmas as his wife.
Ruth said: "Eamonn has regressed into childhood. The older he gets the more he goes back at Christmas.”
The pair who married back in 2010 have been together for 25 years. Together they have a son Jack, 19, whilst Eamonn has three children from his previous marriage.
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