Eamonn Holmes reignites ITV feud as he labels network 'ministry of lies'

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Eamonn Holmes has reignited his feud with ITV several months after it was announced he would be leaving the network and moving to GB News.The former This Morning anchor, 62, had fronted the popular magazine show for 15 years alongside his wife Ruth Langsford but left in November.Now, it appears his career is going from strength after the veteran presenter scooped a gong for best News Presenter at the TRIC Awards.READ MORE: Eamonn Holmes 'doing his best' as he delivers health updateSpeaking exclusively to the Daily Star, Eamonn said of his award: "Yes, very proud of the award, it means a lot this year particularly."However, he went on to say GB News could overtake Good Morning Britain following the departure of Piers Morgan.Eamonn explained: "Oh God yes, you wouldn’t be doing what you do if you didn’t think you were the best at what you do," but he doesn't think their standards are slipping since Piers walked out.Going on to discuss his new show overtaking GMB, he said: "Hopefully next year, I mean our audience has gone up six-fold."We regularly beat Sky News, Sky News has been in the business 35 years.

We've been existing for about six months."There's been a lot of groundwork, we've worked, very, very hard."But while reports claimed Eamonn had resigned from his role at ITV, the Irish star was keen to express that this was not the case.He said: "I haven’t been slagging off This Morning, Ruth is Ruth, I am me, I’m telling the truth about ITV."I haven’t been slagging them off, ITV has been telling lies about me.