Speaking on his GB News Breakfast show on Wednesday he said: “I did this quiz show for Fox TV. They said ‘we want the Irish guy who does the lottery’ – I think they meant Dermot O’Leary or something. “They got me and I couldn’t believe it.
I went over to do a daytime version and then three days into it they changed everything and said ‘this is so good, we’re putting this out in the evening. “I remember phoning my wife and saying ‘we’re going to have to move out to California, they really want me here.’ “I’m going down – you know that street with all the palm trees? That's the way I was going to work in this limo and they had a bungalow there and a golf cart.
It was absolutely incredible.” Unfortunately for the former This Morning presenter, ratings put the first episode below bigger hits of the time like Lost and the Biggest Loser. Just two days later the game show, The Rich List, was cancelled.
He said: “It came fourth – and that was it, it disappeared. 36 shows or so disappeared, never to be shown again. “The only person who ever replied to an email from me saying goodbye to them was the lady in wardrobe, nobody else.
“It was like you got a disease that no one wanted to catch.” His co-host, Anne Diamond, replied that his treatment was “brutal”. The 64-year-old Belfast man shared his “one regret” as he reflected on the people he worked with on the show.
Holmes said: “A lot of very ignorant people, it has to be said, and r.