Eamonn and Ruth to host coverage of Eugenie’s wedding day

EAMONN Holmes and wife Ruth Langsford are set to host a special ITV broadcast of the next royal wedding when Princess Eugenie ties the knot with Jack Brooksbank (below).

The couple will present a special extended edition of This Morning as the youngest daughter of the Duke of York walks down the aisle next month with wine merchant Brooksbank.

ITV stepped in after the BBC turned down the chance to televise the event, concerned that it will not attract enough viewers.

However, it has been reported that Prince Andrew was determined his daughter’s wedding should receive as much prominence as the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, whose wedding was broadcast around the world.

Meanwhile, Belfast-born Holmes has revealed his mum rings him to scold him when he interviews guests about sex on This Morning. The 58-year-old has said he isn’t above getting a good telling off from mum, Josephine, who turns 90 this year.

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Holmes, his mum regularly tunes in to This Morning and phones him up afterwards to give her verdict.

The show does not shy away from more raunchy subjects and recently included segments on the importance of pelvic health with a woman demonstrating how she can lift weights using her pelvic floor muscles.

Speaking to the Sunday Express magazine about his mum’s reaction to the features, he said: “She rings me and says, ‘Son, that programme is disgusting’.”

Holmes also spoke about how his upbringing contrasted markedly with that of his wife of eight years.

“I led a very sheltered Catholic life,” he said. “People look at my wife and think she is demure and ladylike. But she’s had a rough Army upbringing. She likes bawdiness.”

Holmes began his career at 19 at UTV in Belfast, and became the youngest anchor to host a TV news programme when he presented Good Evening Ulster aged 21.

He moved to the BBC in 1986, but it was his move to ITV in the early 1990s that cemented his place as a titan of breakfast TV after he presented GMTV from 1993 until 2005 where his frosty relationship with co-host Anthea Turner made the headlines. The pair have since made up.