IT was the evening of Friday the 13th when Ruth Langsford went on Instagram to share a video of herself at home having a meal for one.
She cheerfully spoke about how her caring son Jack, 22, had chosen and ordered her favourite takeaway curry.
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Meanwhile, her former partner of 28 years, Eamonn Holmes, was hundreds of miles away cruising around the Med with his new girlfriend Katie Alexander.
And yesterday the pair of them were pictured together in Ibiza in the most cringeworthy of PDAs — that involved him grabbing Katie’s bottom.
Somehow, Ruth put on a brave face again, this time for charity, and took part in a walk for those affected by dementia.
Eamonn’s new love interest is just 42.
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She is young enough to be his daughter.
Both he and Ruth are 64.
Many would presume that rejected Ruth is the unlucky one in this public scenario.
But I don’t.
I think she’s had a very lucky escape from a man who isn’t showing an ounce of respect for their 14-year marriage.
The couple announced they were separating in May.
No “conscious uncoupling”, no “staying as friends” for these two.
Their separation announcement was brutal — they were getting divorced.
And Eamonn’s actions since then have been pretty brutal too.
The rot in their marriage had apparently set in because they no longer worked together on This Morning and had become like ships in the night with new, separate careers.
But this paper revealed that in fact, Eamonn had left the marital home after Ruth found messages between him and relationship counsellor Katie on a laptop.
The pair had been messaging for NINE years and in the past year, Ruth discovered he had been showering her with gifts, including tickets to a Beyonce concert and had accompanied her on a trip to a safari park.
After he moved into a rented apartment in South West London, Katie became a visitor. It is very sad.
But marriages break up and men meet younger women.
He’s not the first and won’t be the last.
Look at Paul Hollywood, Ronnie Wood and Rowan Atkinson.
But then he and Katie jetted off on a luxury.
And that is where any ounce of sympathy I had for Eamonn totally disappeared.
To flaunt your new romance just weeks after announcing your divorce is always going to cause pain and heartache for the other person in any break-up.
It is cutting, selfish and insensitive after such a long marriage.
He hasn’t even had the decency to remove his wedding ring before gazing besottedly up at his new, younger model.
Ruth’s Loose Women co-stars said that she is “doing great” and they are supporting her.
Good. Because I would imagine right now she needs that support.
Just five years ago, Eamonn said that their marriage worked because of “consideration”, while Ruth said it was down to “laughter”.
He doesn’t seem to be behaving with much consideration right now — and there probably isn’t much genuine laughter in Ruth’s life.
But I truly believe she will be the one who has the last laugh.
While he may be hurtling head first into this new exciting chapter of his life, Ruth is doing the sensible thing.
She is acting her age and using that life experience to quietly and slowly contemplate the future with her solid, long-term friends and family she loves supporting her.
They say there’s no fool like an old fool and I don’t think there are any words that better describe Eamonn Holmes.
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Lottie so stupid to dice with death
I APPLAUD Lottie Moss for her honesty.
But I struggle to believe how stupid she’s been.
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The model bought a “slimming jab” from a “friend”, injected herself with a big dose, ended up in hospital and had a seizure.
She took Semaglutide. Under the brand name Wegovy it is licensed to treat obesity, and Ozempic when managing blood sugar for type 2 diabetics.
It mimics the actions of a hormone to tell the pancreas to make more insulin and makes you feel full.
Sparrow-like Lottie took a dose of Ozempic “meant for someone double her weight”.
If she’d gone to a doctor, she’d know dosing by weight isn’t how it’s administered.
It may be just the jab for weight loss, for those who need it.
But taking a drug without knowing how much to even take is madness.
And using medication from pals or dodgy sites is dicing with death.
Dave’s done a Kyle
FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl is the latest man to get a woman pregnant behind his wife’s back.
He has put out a statement saying: “I have recently become the father to a new baby daughter, born outside of my marriage. I love my wife and my children, and am doing everything I can to regain their trust and earn their forgiveness.”
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Clearly he didn’t love his wife of 21 years, Jordyn Blum, quite enough to stick to his marriage vows.
But if he wants some tips on how to wriggle back into the good books he could do worse than contact Kyle Walker who has, miraculously, got himself back into the family home.
He and wife Annie apparently really want to “make it work”.
But since Kyle first started dating Annie, he has fathered two kids with Lauryn Goodman, exposed himself in a bar and snogged another woman, had a party with two sex workers during Covid, texted a Playboy model and romped in his car with TV reality star Laura Brown.
If I was Annie I’d have told him where to go by now.
But I wish them all the best of luck – they’re going to need it.
Prison farce
AS Stuart Bennett pranced around looking as though he was playing Vicky Pollard’s boyfriend in Little Britain, it could have been comical.
With his Reebok trainers, Ralph Lauren tracksuit and JD Sports bag full of belongings, he sniggered from ear to ear.
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Bennett is one of the 1,700 criminals who have been set free early by Labour to ease over-crowding in jails.
They included shoplifters, burglars, drug dealers and domestic abusers.
Bennett is a serial thief.
What a disgrace that he is laughing in the face of justice.
And how terrifying for all of us.
Right kind of people
ON Tuesday, rocker Jon Bon Jovi helped convince a woman not to jump off a bridge in Nashville, Tennessee, so saving her life.
The same day, London cab driver Ben gave me a lift in his taxi to Euston Station and refused any payment.
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As acts of kindness go, obviously the chart star wins but Ben’s gesture made me remember the phrase “one good turn deserves another” and left me feeling kinder this week.
I had been late for my train when I hailed a taxi and Ben pulled over.
We got nattering and he said he would give me a free lift, as he was going that way anyway.
Ben explained that sometimes he liked to give people a complimentary ride because so many people are kind and tip taxi drivers.
Thanks Ben, you brightened up my week – and in turn the week of the people around me.
Jodie’s no joke
POOR Jodie Marsh has grumbled that her local council is being cruel and unfair to her by refusing her a licence for dangerous wild animals, to keep lemurs at her animal sanctuary.
The 45-year-old former pin-up has now appealed, saying: “I feel the council has a grudge against me. I have quite a lot of proof of that.”
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But the council says it refused the licence because Jodie saw the 250 animals she has at Fripps Farm, near Great Dunmow, Essex, as pets.
This all stems back to claims of her twice taking a MEERKAT to the PUB.
I bet everyone in her local sighed with relief when they heard the latest ruling.
