Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford will celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary this year, but their love story started almost a decade before.
Sparks flew when the pair were introduced in 1997 by their mutual friend, TV presenter Sally Meen back when Eamonn was a GMTV host and Ruth - who turns 61 today - had just moved to London to break into mainstream television from satellite shows.
At the time, Eamonn, 61, was two years out of his marriage to first wife, Gabrielle Holmes, who is the mother of his eldest three children, Declan, Rebecca and Niall.
The exes met in the summer of 1976 and were together for just shy of 20 years, with Gabrielle and the kids staying in Belfast while Eamonn commuted to London each week.
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