Ruth Langsford: ‘I’m happy to turn 60 – I’m actually excited’
Ruth Langsford has said she is “quite excited” about turning 60, despite feeling in her younger days that it was “really old”.
The TV presenter, whose birthday is tomorrow, said that “everything is going really well” in her life, so she is ready to embrace the milestone age.
She also said that she is surprised to still be working on the small screen because previously “women were farmed off when they hit 40”.
Langsford said: “I can’t quite believe I have reached the big 6-0 because when you are in your 20s, you think it’s really old.
“But actually I am quite excited about it.
“I am very happy in my life, I have got a very happy marriage, a lovely family, I love my work and my career, so everything is going really well.”
Her TV career started around 30 years ago as a continuity announcer and evening news presenter for ITV regional station Television South West, before she moved into national TV.
She is now best known for being a panellist on ITV’S Loose Women, a role she has had on and off since 1999, and for being This Morning’s relief host along with husband Eamonn Holmes.
Of her lengthy career, she said: “I didn’t think I would still be working in television at60becausewheniwasinmy 30s you didn’t see 60-year-old women in television. Women were farmed off when they hit 40 – but it’s very different now and that’s thanks to those who forged the way for older women; people like Gloria Hunniford and Janet Street-porter.”