Eamonn Holmes has revealed the stress of a legal battle over a shock £250,000 tax bill could have left him blind.
The ex This Morning host said the 2018 demand – over whether he worked freelance at ITV – triggered a shingles attack that left him covered in blisters.
Eamonn, 63, revealed: “I jumped back when I looked at myself in the mirror. I thought, ‘Where the hell did that come from?’
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“It was bloody scary to see it. It looked as if someone had taken a baseball bat to my face and smashed me about a bit.”
Eamonn spoke out ahead of Shingles Awareness Week, adding: “Blindness could have been a complication in my case.
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“The doctor said it’s really bad for you because it is around your eyes and could be bad for your ophthalmic nerves. Medically, it was pretty serious.”
Luckily Eamonn made a complete recovery with a “course of antibiotics and ointments”, and the telly host’s case against HMRC was rejected in 2020, when a tribunal found he counted as an employee for tax purposes.
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Eamonn added: “The hearing was like a lamb to the slaughter – the most humiliating experience.”
The Northern Irish star appealed against the ruling at the Upper Tribunal in London last month, and a decision will follow at a later date.
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