EAMONN Holmes broke down in tears after watching a viral video of a song his late father played to him as a child. The television presenter was introducing a clip of Patrick Dexter playing the iconic song ‘Danny Boy’ on the cello and when it cut back to the studio, he was dabbing his eyes.
As they introduced the beautiful song on This Morning, Eamonn's wife Ruth said: "Didn't your dad sing this to you?" As the screen cut back to the studio, Ruth was seen comforting her husband he tried to compose himself following the moving rendition.
The ITV presenter's father Leonard suffered a fatal heart attack while driving in the countryside of Northern Ireland aged 65 and Eamonn recalled the harrowing experience in his 2006 autobiography, This Is.
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