Ruth Langsford ‘thought she would lose’ Eamonn Holmes when there were complications during gruelling hip replacement operation last year
TV presenter underwent a double hip op this time last year
RUTH Langsford feared she would lose husband Eamonn Holmes after complications with his double hip operation.
The This Morning host underwent the major surgery in February last year, and while he's got a new lease of life now, Ruth admits she panicked a bit at the time.
She told : "I was worried because there's a risk with any operation.
"We went back after three hours and there was no Eamonn.
"I kept saying to the nurse, 'Where is he?' So I was very relieved to see him."
Eamonn added: "She was worried about losing me - of course she was!"
But the cheeky Irishman - who co-hosts This Morning with his wife on Fridays added: "Her TV career would have been washed up. Wiped out. Over."
Appearing on Loose Women - which Ruth also features on Fridays - back in September, Eamonn revealed his wife of almost seven years had been a strict nurse during his recovery.
Asked how he was, he said: “I’m alright, I’m worse than I let on, I’m in great pain all the time.”
When Coleen Nolan joked he had been “very brave”, he replied: “I’m brave because of my wife”.
Ruth, who was leading the panel that day, pulled a funny face at the camera as she listened to her husband appeal for sympathy.
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He continued: "She doesn't do suffering. She said she would be nurse and look after me in sickness and in health...forget that."
Chipping in, Ruth laughed: "I said for about six weeks and then I'm done".
When Gloria Hunniford asked if he thought his wife would have been in uniform to care for him, he teased: "Only on Fridays."
Since returning to work after his op, Eamonn has made a number of changes in his life, including quitting his role on Sky News' 'Sunrise' after 11 years.
He wrote on his Facebook page at the time: "Anchoring my own breakfast show for 11 years has been for me the stuff of boyhood dreams. It was the job I hoped to do as a young Belfast lad – and because of Sky News I got there!
“Forty five years plus on I have other dreams, and to achieve them I realise that unfortunately I need to step away from the daily studio commitment for a while.
"There is an addiction to a live breaking news studio environment. However, after more than 3,000 hours of programming it is a habit I have to suppress.
“Increasingly in life I have found myself in the fortunate position of having so much to do but little time to do it. This seems an opportune moment to change that.”