Eamonn is the voice and face we like to wake up to

Eamonn Holmes has pipped Susanna Reid, Piers Morgan and Dan Walker in a poll of the best breakfast show hosts of all time.

The star’s early-morning credits include GMTV, Sunrise and a recent stint returning to the breakfast sofa on Good Morning Britain.

Controversial presenter Morgan is third, while Morgan’s co-host Reid, who is also a former BBC Breakfast presenter, is sixth, the highest-placed female on the list.

Johnny Vaughan is second for Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast, which he co-hosted with Denise Van Outen.

Chris Evans, who also hosted the famous ’ 90s show, is ninth in the poll for RadioTimes.com, one place ahead of Dundee-based Lorraine Kelly, whose credits include TV-AM, GMTV and Daybreak.

Holmes, 57, now co-hosts This Morning with wife Ruth Langsford every Friday.

He said: “Well, I’m the longest serving breakfast TV presenter of all time so I’d like to think that in some way you’re not only just the longest or hanging in there but it also equates to being quite good at it.

“Thank you for remembering that I was there in good days and bad days.”