Just five months ago, Eamonn Holmes was playing the victim, saying he was devastated and shocked after his wife Ruth Langsford announced they were divorcing. And yet, in recent days, he has been pictured on a romantic break to the Mediterranean with his new, much younger lover Katie Alexander, in one shot tenderly patting her bottom as they head out for a night out in Ibiza.
In some of the pictures of them in the sunshine, Katie is seen wearing a £315 feathered black minidress, carrying an £850 Loewe handbag and tottering around in towering £655 Christian Louboutin stilettos. All while claims that he was the wronged party after he and Ruth split are still very much fresh in the memory.
Sorry, Eamonn, but the game is up. I’m afraid these pictures will cost you dearly, especially in the eyes of the public.
Eamonn Holmes in the Mediterranean with his new lover Katie Alexander, patting her on the bum
Eamonn is still married and is seen wearing his wedding ring.
How can a man go from a 27-year relationship to strolling around Ibiza with a woman half his age?
It takes a particular kind of cruelty for burly Eamonn to flaunt his young mistress when he knows his wife Ruth, also a high-profile celebrity, will see every single photograph.
Eamonn is not yet divorced. He is still married. Just as he was when the curvy blonde divorcee from Yorkshire, mother of three, contacted him online in 2015, and swooned that he was her George Clooney.
He was married when he reportedly began meeting regularly with Katie after his own marriage ended in 2022. He tied the knot when she was reportedly staying at a Surrey hotel just ten minutes from where Eamonn and Ruth lived in Weybridge.
And, of course, Ruth has had enough. As Eamonn triumphantly paraded his mistress around Ibiza, and a friend gushed: “Katie is living her dream”, we learn that Ruth has hired one of the country’s fiercest divorce lawyers, Catherine Costley.
Eamonn and Katie’s dream could turn into a nightmare when Mrs Costley steps in.
The £400-an-hour divorce lawyer is known for being “fierce and methodical”. She learned her skills from her former boss and mentor Baroness Shackleton, who acted for the then Prince Charles in his divorce from Diana, and is nicknamed “Steel Magnolia” for the charm and determination with which she pursues her prey.
So ruthlessly effective was she in representing Sir Paul McCartney in his divorce from Heather Mills, his wife of four years, that Mills poured a glass of water over Shackleton’s head in a fury after he walked out of court with a £24m settlement instead of the £125m he was asking for.
There is no doubt that Ruth’s appointment of Mrs Costley, one of the country’s top five divorce lawyers, will come as a cold shower to Eamonn’s shameless parade of love.
And that is nothing less than what he deserves. If he had handled this relationship with some dignity and respect for Ruth, if he had kept it secret and off the media radar and if he had been honest with her and told her that he had fallen in love with someone else, it could have been a peaceful and settled divorce between two people who had been married for 13 years and had raised a child together.
But given his recent behavior, his outbursts of self-pity when they split ring hollow.
As for chubby Eamonn’s statements that he hoped he and Ruth could remain friends, there’s little chance of that happening. I can’t even begin to imagine Ruth’s wrath, and she’ll soon have Eamonn shaking in his electric wheelchair.
Ms Costley advises women seeking or contemplating divorce to protect themselves and their finances, and to have a secret fund of their own money in case they need to exit a relationship quickly.
“My top tip,” she says, “is that everyone should carry an emergency bag. No matter how much money you have, make sure you always have your own savings.”
Which adds another layer of intrigue to Holmes’ divorce from Langsford.
Did Ruth see it coming? Did she hold back before making the shocking announcement of their split until she had her “emergency bag” ready?
I only ask because figures published in February this year for her company Hey Ho Ltd reveal that she earned £2.3m last year through her television work, including Loose Women and her lucrative shopping channel show, Ruth Langsford Fashion on QVC.
While Eamonn’s GB News salary is thought to be around £1m, there probably aren’t many more big-ticket TV deals available to him.
How could he do that to Ruth, who was by his side for years despite his constant illnesses?
Eamonn is said to be so in love with Katie that he has showered Katie and her children with expensive gifts, which might explain the £4,200 Alhambra bracelet she was sporting in those Ibiza photos. After all, on her modest income as a relationship counsellor specialising in “affairs and betrayals” (£45 for a 50-minute session), she probably isn’t paying. She now drives a £50,000 Mercedes.
The thing is, Eamonn knows what he’s doing, showing off his new love like this. He’s been a TV star for decades. He knows publicity. After Ruth kicked him out, he knew he’d be a person of interest wherever he went.
He knew full well when he and Katie embarked on their luxury cruise on the Scarlet Lady (yes, really!) that every move he made would be captured by fellow cruisers and the couple would be photographed together in public places.
My question is how could he do that to Ruth, who supported him for years despite his constant illnesses: a double hip replacement, back surgery and then a fall down the stairs of the house they shared after which he was unable even to walk.
On behalf of betrayed women everywhere, I hope Ruth leaves her cheating husband in the lurch and, thanks to the skills of her fearsome divorce lawyer, leaves him abandoned.
And so let’s see how irresistible the adoring Katie finds her financially weakened 64-year-old boyfriend.
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