As big a boy as Eamonn Holmes undoubtedly is, one wonders if he isn?t spreading himself a little too thinly.
The roly-poly presenter?s latest regrettable a comment to a rape victim on ITV?s This Morning ? ?I hope you take taxis now? ? comes a matter of weeks after his equally regrettable use of the word ?retard? on the show to describe a dim-witted person.
These strike me as the words of a man who is tired rather than offensive by nature. He is, after all, up at the crack of dawn each morning to present Sky News ? often he arrives barely moments before the cameras start rolling ? and then he has to head off to his day-job at ITV. The 51-year-old also has his journalism, guest presenting gigs and his promotional jobs to attend to, such as plugging Richard Desmond?s Health Lottery.
Holmes knows how hurtful words can be. He hated, for instance, Jon Culshaw?s parodies of him as being ?fierce hungry, so I was? on The Impressions Show, and, possibly at his behest, a Sky press officer took me out to lunch after I alluded to his weight myself during the summer. My advice to Eammon? Do yourself ? and the viewers ? a favour, and take the weight off your feet.
Dress to impress
There are few more dapper elder statesmen than Lord Hurd, but even he looked a trifle overdressed at the Churchillian Award Dinner at the Marriott Grosvenor Square. Lord Marland admitted that he was in ?deep ----? with the former foreign secretary for telling him it was a black tie event.
Not very politic, either, to give the Churchill Centre?s international award to Nicolas Sarkozy right now.
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