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 really the one regret in my life is that I didn’t punch a guy when I was out there. “If I had my life to live again I would have, really [happily], been sacked for punching this git.” During the same conversation, Mr Holmes also shared a time when he was offered a job as a weatherman in Canada.
He said: “I just thought what is the point when your mother and father would never see you on TV – what’s the point of doing it if nobody knows you on it?” On Tuesday it was revealed Holmes is set to be a regular host of The Travel Podcast, alongside his colleague and long-time friend Hayley Sparkes. The Travel Podcast launched in 2020 and quickly became iTunes' number-one travel podcast. One of Holmes’ first interviews will be with Virgin Voyage’s UK Director of Sales SJ Walker.
As well as hosting the show together, the duo are creating lifestyle marketing content for Not Just Travel. It comes two months after Holmes and Ruth Langsford confirmed that they are in the process of divorcing after 14 years of marriage, having first started dating in 1996. A statement issued by a spokesperson at the time said: “Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes have confirmed their marriage is over and they are in the process of divorcing.
” After news of their split was made public, Langsford announced that she would be taking extended leave from ITV panel show Loose Women. She made an emotional return on Monday..
