Holmes tops poll of favourite television breakfast hosts

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 1990s show, is ninth in the poll for RadioTimes.com, one place ahead of Lorraine Kelly, whose credits include TVAM, GMTV and Daybreak. Holmes, 57, now co-hosts

This Morning with wife Ruth Langsford every Friday.

He said: “Well, I’m the longestserving 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.”

RadioTimes.com editor Tim Glanfield said: “Breakfast TV hosts have a very special place in the nation’s heart.”