'Setting the record straight!' Eamonn Holmes brands ITV 'Ministry of Lies' after award win

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Eamonn Holmes, 62, was fuming when he was reportedly branded too "male, pale and stale" and allegedly dismissed from his job at ITV.

However, he said the experience only increased the "fire in his belly", as he vowed to overtake the channel via his new position at GB News.Last night, as he claimed victory at the TRIC Awards as the Best News Presenter, he warned ITV that he was "coming for" them in the ratings.He was asked yesterday how his wife and former This Morning co-host Ruth Langsford, who presented his award to him yesterday, feels about his disparaging comments against ITV."I haven't been slagging off This Morning.

I'm telling the truth about ITV," he hit back."ITV have been telling lies about me [and] I'm just putting the record straight."As he spoke before the press, he added that he was referring to: "The Ministry of Lies, their press office."The point is I did not resign from ITV.

ITV resigned from me."And I never received a single explanation once why they wanted rid of me," he added.He hasn't been shy while venting about his former employer over the months, but previously told the world that he and Ruth are "not good at kissing bottoms".The pair's then co-host Phillip Schofield didn't escape Eamonn's acid tongue, either, after he cut Ruth off mid-sentence during a breakfast time broadcast.Fuming that he had a "Belfast street fighter" spirit when it came to his desire to defend her, Eamonn exclaimed: "Phillip is renowned for snubbing people."He's very passive-aggressive [but] no-one would have snubbed me like that."He added to The Daily Mail's Weekend magazine: "Sometimes it is really quite pathetic the way some people suck up to influential people."It's clear that he has no intention of praising ITV, having.