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Eamonn Holmes

He’s the face most people have woken up to in the morning.

Eamonn Holmes is the anchor of Sky News Sunrise from 0600 – 0900.  For 12 years, Eamonn presented GMTV.

Eamonn, who has his own Saturday morning sports entertainment show on Radio Five Live, can be seen at other times and on other stations, most notably as twice weekly host of BBC1’s National Lottery Jet Set and on This Morning with his partner Ruth Langsford.

Eamonn received his journalistic grounding during the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. He reported for GMTV from the scenes of the biggest stories of the last decade, including Dunblane, the Paddington rail crash and the Omagh bombing. 

Born in Belfast, Eamonn studied journalism before beginning his broadcasting career at Ulster Television. Initially a farming reporter before moving on to sport and news, he became, at the age of 21, the youngest ever anchorman in the ITV regions, hosting Ulster Television’s hour-long early evening programme Good Evening Ulster.

In 1986, he was one of the faces who launched daytime television on BBC1, with the daily phone-in programme, Open Air. During the late ’80s and early ’90s he hosted various programmes for the BBC, including Holiday, which he co-presented for four years. He also covered numerous national sports events for the station.

Eamonn has won awards for his presenting, including the Tric Award for Satellite/Digital TV personality two years running.

Britain’s longest serving breakfast host and a passionate Manchester United fan, Eamonn is a father of four and divides his time between London, Belfast

and Old Trafford.