Eamonn Holmes reunites with Anthea Turner after ending decade-long feud
They shared a sweet pic.
Eamonn Holmes has shared a sweet post reuniting with Anthea Turner, months years ending their decade-long feud.
The GB News presenter, 65, who certainly doesn’t hold back from slamming certain former co-stars, took to Instagram with a snap posing beside Anthea, 64.
He wrote: ‘We’re the same age @antheaturner and I and have had careers of similar length but my paper round must have been harder than hers ! Top Girl.’
The sweet picture saw the pair grinning side by side, as Anthea crouched beside Eamonn and he rested his arm on her shoulder.
Among the supportive comments, some followers questioned the cosy picture after Eamonn and Anthea’s feud in the past, with one person, Carrie, writing: ‘Is it April Fool’s Day? Thought these two didn’t like each other.’
‘I’m confused I thought you didn’t like her!’ Katherine also wrote.
‘Lovely to see you back together,’ @fabfood4all meanwhile said.
The pair presented GMTV together between 1994 and 1996 (Picture: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)The pair fronted ITV daytime programme GMTV together between 1994 and 1996, but it had been claimed a clash over her ‘ambition and vanity’ led to her exit from the show.
Anthea later opened up about the difficult time in her career, saying: ‘Revenge is a dish best served sweet.’
She went on: ‘Best of all, I’m still here. I thought it was sad. I just wanted to do the job I enjoyed, but unfortunately the roles have to be labelled.
‘I was always asked if I was ambitious and, if I said yes, I was made out to be a ruthless person who would walk over anybody to get where I wanted. It would be said that I was hormonal, or I was stamping my feet.’
Anthea previously said it was ‘an intensely hostile environment’ (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX)Anthea added on the Miranda Holder Weekly Fashion Podcast: ‘And yet ask that question to a man, and if he’s ambitious, we think, “What a guy”. You’d never hear anyone say that about Eamonn.’
Although the pair later made up, Anthea said at the time that though she may have forgiven him, she’s not forgotten.
‘I think as you get older, you look back and smile. It’s more like water off a duck’s back now,’ she said.
‘I definitely haven’t got ‘bitter’ or ‘twisted’ tattooed across my forehead.’
She continued: ‘Nobody likes injustice, nobody wants to be misrepresented. It hurts, it really hurts.’
The pair made up in 2005, after Eamonn left GMTV (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)Anthea had previously said she felt ‘physically sick some mornings’ and ‘was made to feel inferior’ during her time on GMTV, where she was ‘openly sneered’.
She called the move from Blue Peter a ‘terribly shock’, claiming GMTV had ‘an intensely hostile environment’.
Her spat with Eamonn ended when he left the programme in 2005, telling the Sunday Mirror at the time: ‘One of the things I wanted to do leaving GMTV was to tie up loose ends.
‘So I got in touch with Anthea. It was something there that should have been put to rest a long time ago.’
He also addressed public feuds he’s had with various presenters over the years, saying he was prepared to ‘forgive and forget’ with some, but others are ‘dead’ to him.
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