How The Other Half Lives.. eh Eamonn?

THEY’RE one of TV’S most downto-earth couples but that’s not to say Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes don’t enjoy the taste of the high life once in a while.

With a third series of How The Other Half Lives in the wings, the husband-and-wife duo tell us what’s turned their heads in the world of the uber-rich. Eamonn has just ordered Ruth out of the room. If this was the result of a spat, things could get awkward now. But it’s far from it – he’s simply excited to share what he’s bought his presenter wife for their forthcoming seventh wedding anniversary. Closing the door behind her, she quips: “Oh God, you haven’t done something extravagant again, have you?” Referring to his partner of 21 years, Belfast-born Eamonn retorts: “As you can see, I’m the romantic one. “Ruth’s answer is ‘You better not have done anything’, but if I haven’t done anything, believe me... “What I have done is got her a recreation of her wedding bouquet, which was a drape over her arm, so I will get the same flowers, which are white roses, in a bouquet. Not that she’ll even remember what she had.” Having just clocked off from their regular Friday hosting slot on ITV’S This Morning, the duo are on top form and, refreshingly, exactly as they appear on screen. It’s this viewer relatability that has secured the twosome a number of joint TV projects, including the muchloved Channel 5 documentary series How The Other Half Lives. Back for a third run, the couple will once again take viewers on a gaspworthy journey into the lives of the world’s super-rich, from staying in multi-million mansions to driving the most expensive cars and rubbing shoulders at exclusive, billionairefilled parties. And past experiences taken into account, it’s an existence the pair, both 57, still find hard to comprehend. “It’s still gobsmacking,” begins Ruth, back on the sofa and looking glamorous in a green wrap dress. “Some of the wealth is wealth beyond your wildest dreams – it’s so unattainable that it almost becomes comical. “We all love to think, ‘If I won the lottery I’ll do this and I’ll pay off my sister’s mortgage and I’ll have a nice car...’ but these are billionaires and they’re multi-billionaires. “And interestingly we were expecting not to like a lot of people and it’s been the complete opposite – people have been so nice and we’re not here to judge people, to be disrespectful, to sneer or to laugh at them.” It is, however, a process that’s left Eamonn with food for thought. The former Sky News anchor added: “Just to say, Ruthie and I never come home from one of these trips and say, ‘Oh, I wish we had this, I wish we had that’, because, as Ruth always says to me, ‘There’s only so many