Eamonn Holmes says Ruth Langsford’s way with marigold gloves made him stick around

Eamonn Holmes admitted his wife Ruth Langsford ’s bed-making skills and her way around a marigold glove is what made him fall in love.

The ITV presenter says Ruth stood out as he ‘always remembers people’ who know how to make a bed.

The 61-year-old recalled the moment he did an interview where he discussed everything he loved about Ruth, resulting in talks about bed-making.

“I said when I met her and I realised she kept an amazing home and she walked around in marigold gloves, the place smelt of Dettol and it was really, everything was gorgeous,” he told Vicky Pattison on her podcast The Secret To.

“She could make a bed, I always remember people who can make a bed. I find it difficult to make a bed. She says I deliberately find it difficult to make a bed so therefore I don’t have to do it.

“But I admire, it’s amazing what she can do with those bedsheets she’s like a nurse, they’re starched and everything’s incredible.”

When Eamonn’s quotes were published, Ruth was less than impressed.

“It was published and she said ‘I’ve seen that interview you did’ and I said yes, I’m thinking she’s going to say ‘it was so lovely, wasn’t it nice, you didn’t have to do that’ and she hit me with the magazine,” he continued.

Eamonn and Ruth began dating in 1997 with Ruth giving birth to their son Jack in 2002.

At first they kept their relationship under wraps out of respect for his first wife Gabrielle Holmes – who is the mother of his eldest three children, Declan, Rebecca and Niall.

Ruth and Eamonn never attended events together and even refused to hold hands in public.

Ruth admitted Eamonn’s thoughtful gesture only made her fall for him even harder.

“I thought it spoke volumes about the sort of man he was, the sort of father he was and the integrity he had. It made me love him more, not less,” she told the Daily Mail in November 2017.

The couple married in 2010 near Hartley Wintney in Hampshire.