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Ruth Langsford rakes in £2.5m despite husband Eamonn Holmes being forced to sell house
Eamonn believes the stress of the dispute caused his health to deteriorate
TV PRESENTER Ruth Langsford is still top of the daytime TV earnings league.
The Loose Women star, 63, has appeared on a string of TV shows over her three decade career - including This Morning, Gift Wrapped and How the Other Half Lives.
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Ruth, who is married to TV favourite Eamonn Holmes, is still bringing home a pretty pay packet after 27 years in the business.
New figures have revealed that the popular telly star banked £2.3 million in pay last year - working out at a huge £6,285 per day.
Her earnings are reported in new accounts for private firm Hey Ho, which was set up in 2013.
With figures for the year ended 31 May 2023, reporting £2,294,096 in pay to her.
Her earnings made up in £2,285,000 in dividends and £9,096 in directors pay.
The ITV presenter signed off on the figures yesterday, filing them at Companies House today.
After banking her millions, Ruth retained £1.9 million in her firm.
Hey Ho reporting £2.5 million in assets and £661,962 worth of bills.
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Holding £1.9 million in cash, £625,430 worth of monies due, as well as £52,137 worth of land and buildings and £3,219 worth of furniture, fittings and equipment.
Monies owed included taxation and social security at £288,309, and trading debts at £190,265.
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Its nature of business reported on Companies House as "performing arts".
Neither principal activities nor its income from turnover are reported - but it has been a money-spinner for her for years, bagging £55,894 profit in 2014, its first year of trading.
Earnings topped a million in 2019, before reaching £2.3 million in 2020.
Her firm’s net worth peaking in 2022 at £3.3 million.
On top of Hey Ho, Ruth runs Feeling Fabulous, which she set up in 2022.
Not in the money as yet, it held £1 as at first trading accounts dated 31 March 2023.
The star also runs family firm Holmes & Away with husband Eamonn.
Set up in 2009 as a radio broadcasting business, it held £18,657 for the couple in April 2023.
While Homes himself held £306,748 in his private firm Red White & Green as at April 2023 – taking the couple’s net worth north of £5 million.
Despite their combined wealth, it was revealed that Eamonn had to sell his beloved home to settle a huge tax bill.
Eamonn, 64, said "they've taken everything" after being "forced" to give up the house in his home town Belfast as part of a long-running dispute with HM Revenue and Customs.
Eamonn also believes the stress of the dispute caused his health to deteriorate.
After losing two appeals against the HMRC, in which the former This Morning host forked out "hundreds of thousands of pounds" to settle legal fees, Eamonn was ordered to pay £250,000.
Ruth and Eamonn became engaged in 2009 and they married in June 2010.
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The couple has one son, Jack, born in February 2002.
Eamonn has three other children from his first marriage to Gabrielle Holmes - daughter Rebecca, 26, and sons Declan, 28, and Niall, 24.
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