WHEN Eamonn Holmes left This Morning last year, there was much talk of who would replace him and wife Ruth Langsford. The couple had covered Fridays and school holidays for Phillip Schofield and Fern Britton, and latterly Holly Willoughby, since 2006.
So when Eamonn left the ITV show under a cloud in December, viewers wondered if it meant losing his partner of 26 years as well.
Well, quite the opposite has occurred. Ruth has instead emerged as the queen of daytime telly, with new accounts showing she is almost out-earning Holly and Phil put together.
Tax records for her personal limited company Hey Ho Ltd suggest that last year she earned £2,092,863. Holly’s Roxy Media Ltd’s tax bill suggests she made £1,373,695.
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