How They Met: Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford kept their love secret at first

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The Daily Mail: ‘I thought it spoke volumes about the sort of man he was, the sort of father he was and the integrity he had.‘It made me love him more, not less.’Eamonn’s divorce from Gabrielle was finalised in 2005 and in 2010, he got down on one knee to Ruth during the Cheltenham races and they married that year on June 26.Eamonn had even asked for Ruth’s mother’s permission to marry her daughter as Ruth’s father unfortunately had advanced Alzheimer’s.By then, Ruth and Eamonn had welcomed their son Jack, born in 2002, and she revealed that she had wished for more children but it wasn’t meant to be.She said: ‘I didn’t meet Eamonn until I was 37.