Eamonn Holmes

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QuirkyFlamingo said:
If he’s genuinely ‘running out of time and not ok’ then why is he still working? He’s hardly short of cash!
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If he had to sell his Belfast home in part payment of his tax bill, I'd say he mustn't be as well off, as it stands now, as people think. He was the much bigger earner when he and Ruth met. I think it's the other way round now. And who knows what'll happen with the divorce. Hopefully they'll be financially reasonable with one another. He'd be better off not to have to work, or at least pick the odd gig he wants to do. But breakfast tv is punishing for anyone, let alone with his health problems. Actually, bearing in mind the tax man and the divorce, I'd seriously cut down the work if I were him. He'll have enough medical proof. Force the sale of the marital home (one person doesn't need that huge house) and they should both have enough to buy properties in cash that they can retire to, and maybe something left over that they can pick and choose work and live not too shabbily as long as they don't expect too much.
 
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LByrne74 said:
If he had to sell his Belfast home in part payment of his tax bill, I'd say he mustn't be as well off, as it stands now, as people think. He was the much bigger earner when he and Ruth met. I think it's the other way round now. And who knows what'll happen with the divorce. Hopefully they'll be financially reasonable with one another. He'd be better off not to have to work, or at least pick the odd gig he wants to do. But breakfast tv is punishing for anyone, let alone with his health problems.
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I didn’t know that about his house and tax bill - I’m genuinely shocked!
 
QuirkyFlamingo said:
I didn’t know that about his house and tax bill - I’m genuinely shocked!
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Yeah the thing is that Kaye Adams of Loose Women won pretty much the exact same case that he lost. She maintained she was freelance and so did he. They both did work for other companies besides ITV. But Eamonn was unlucky and the judge he got didn't look favourably upon him. He also lost his appeals. It does seem very unfair when others didn't have to pay up.
 
LByrne74 said:
Yeah the thing is that Kaye Adams of Loose Women won pretty much the exact same case that he lost. She maintained she was freelance and so did he. They both did work for other companies besides ITV. But Eamonn was unlucky and the judge he got didn't look favourably upon him. He also lost his appeals. It does seem very unfair when others didn't have to pay up.
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And Lorraine Kelly
 
LByrne74 said:
Yeah the thing is that Kaye Adams of Loose Women won pretty much the exact same case that he lost. She maintained she was freelance and so did he. They both did work for other companies besides ITV. But Eamonn was unlucky and the judge he got didn't look favourably upon him. He also lost his appeals. It does seem very unfair when others didn't have to pay up.
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And his legal costs would be sky high too.

I don't understand why he had to pay up and Lorraine Kelly didn't. ( I didn't know about Kaye Adams.)

I remember Lorraine was able to convince the Judge that she is an actress playing the role of "tv presenter Lorraine Kelly" therefore her tax payments should be calculated as such.
Which meant she didn't have to pay like Eamonn did.
Something about being an employee rather than a freelancer or something complicated like that.

It's all very confusing.

He got landed with a way bigger tax bill than he expected and Lorraine (and Kaye) didn't.

I imagine all this has taken a huge toll on his health and dragged him down.

I also wish him well.
 
He can't afford to retire? Maybe he could cut his cloth like any other pensioner and get on with it.
Im sure he isn't destitute and if he's broke then he will stand to gain money from his marital assets with Ruth in the divorce.

I used to like eamonn but he's turned into a complete dick in the last few years.
His skint and your skint will look very different.

My sister in law is skint when she's down to her last 40k in her savings account. Good pension, good job, no mortgage and is never done talking about being broke. I have no time for that nonsense
 
I do have sympathy with him - to a certain extent. Thinking your tax bill will be 'x' amount and then being landed with one ten times that because HMRC have reclassified your job must be a nightmare.
I expect he's done a deal to pay the debt in instalments from his salary/wages/income.

However, I'm sure he can still afford to move to a more modest home and still have some savings to live comfortably off until he's old enough for his state pension.

He could rake in some money doing more commercials for stuff to ease the aches and pains of old people.
So he is way better off than many others.


If this was the USA he would be suing Ruth for alimony.
 
Chita said:
I remember Lorraine was able to convince the Judge that she is an actress playing the role of "tv presenter Lorraine Kelly" therefore her tax payments should be calculated as such.
Which meant she didn't have to pay like Eamonn did.
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This is often misrepresented. Lorraine's victory against HMRC was comprehensive and the case should never have been brought. She had been freelance since she lost her job when TV-am lost its franchise, and GMTV did not give her the opportunity to be an employee. She never claimed any benefits from ITV such as maternity leave or holiday pay and in fact lost her job at GMTV for a while when they dropped her while away having her baby. The fact that she wasn't an employee meant they could drop her like a shot. It was only when they got her in for a Mother & Baby spot that she was able to return.

The judge saw how she sets her own working hours, controls the content of her show and doesn't get any sick pay or pension benefits, and found fully in her favour. The fact that he also found ITV are paying Lorraine for 'the brand: Lorraine Kelly' was only a part of it but it's often brought up by people who didn't read beyond the headline.

I would imagine Eamonn acted in a way where he was more of an employee, such as having to turn up to work at set times, following too many instructions than a freelancer should have to etc.
 
AlexTwist said:
This is often misrepresented. Lorraine's victory against HMRC was comprehensive and the case should never have been brought. She had been freelance since she lost her job when TV-am lost its franchise, and GMTV did not give her the opportunity to be an employee. She never claimed any benefits from ITV such as maternity leave or holiday pay and in fact lost her job at GMTV for a while when they dropped her while away having her baby. The fact that she wasn't an employee meant they could drop her like a shot. It was only when they got her in for a Mother & Baby spot that she was able to return.

The judge saw how she sets her own working hours, controls the content of her show and doesn't get any sick pay or pension benefits, and found fully in her favour. The fact that he also found ITV are paying Lorraine for 'the brand: Lorraine Kelly' was only a part of it but it's often brought up by people who didn't read beyond the headline.

I would imagine Eamonn acted in a way where he was more of an employee, such as having to turn up to work at set times, following too many instructions than a freelancer should have to etc.
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re Eamonn wasnt it due to him being reclassified under a change to tax laws or something and he was caught unawares - ie, left it to his accountant to know and plan accordingly, but as always at the end of the day, it is the person themselves who is responsible not the accountant.

I cant remember the details - was there also something about some of these presenters working for their own company which classed them in a different category for how their tax is calculated??
I think Eamonn's argument was that if he was an employee then he should be taxed as PAYE?

I cant remember. It was all so complicated.

I just remember the 'actress Lorraine Kelly' jokes doing the rounds.
 
AlexTwist said:
This is often misrepresented. Lorraine's victory against HMRC was comprehensive and the case should never have been brought.
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Yes, ITV were buying her 'brand'. Don't know about you, but I'm sick of people being 'a brand', it's bloody sinister ... the 'brand' of 'The ITV Family' being the most sinister of them all. When 'Lorraine' wins all these 'awards', is it her 'brand' that is winning them or Lorraine Kelly?
 
I have loved Eamonn and Ruth for a few years. Both of them have their flaws too and that makes them humans.
We might never know why they break up, there is her side, his side and the truth. From the moment Ruth people said they broke up, Eamonn side told they where not involved of making that staitment and have not axepted the divorse. Later game the messages on laptop, many women comforting him, a women visiting his apartment and staying there for the weekend, him being all alone in small apartment, her saying we are getting a divorce, her not wanting to be a nurse to him, her looking a new men, so on. It seems it is more his side arguing with her side. Then was a article about Ruth side saying there is more to come out about the marriage, the new girlfriend who is in love. Ruth will be back on Loose Women next week and she is going to adress why she has not been back on tv for the past few months, now there is a article poor Eamonn going to lunch with a friend. Most of these poor me are stages like Phillip with his mom, Thomas Markle before wedding trying on a suit, they are stages to give them good press. Is Eamonn side really so frightend of Ruth coming back that they need the poor Eamonn articles that have come out since the beginning of the divorce saga?
Sorry for any mistakes and for the long post.
 
Scarlett O' Hara said:
I feel sorry for Eamonn, his life has gone horribly wrong.

He should retire, concentrate on his health and live out the rest of his days away from the camera. I wish him well.
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Especially when you consider some of the reprobates he’s worked alongside who get away with it.
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I did used to like Eamonn but his 5G COVID comments left a sour taste.

Though I revelled in his glee during The Downfall of Phillip Schofield.
 
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