Loose Women marriage curse as four ITV panellists split with husbands

Loose Women’s Ruth Langsford is the latest panellist on the ITV show to announce the end of her marriage.

The presenter, 64, has confirmed through a representative that she and her husband, Eamonn Holmes, also 64, are heading for divorce. The news has left fans heartbroken.

Ruth, who has been a part of Loose Women since 1999, has not yet commented on the separation. However, rumours have been swirling due to reports of arguments and a noticeable absence of photos of the couple together.

A source spoke about their split, saying: “It’s a very sorry tale. They are both so loved by the British public, they won over so many people on This Morning which they hosted for more than a decade.”

Adding: “They were as close to Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan as you could get,” according to MailOnline. A friend of the couple told The Sun that the pair had drifted apart in recent months as their work commitments “took them in different directions.”

In a recent TV appearance, Ruth discussed her marriage and expressed her fear of it ending. On Loose Women, she admitted she would be devastated if Eamonn were to leave her for a woman her own age rather than someone younger.

As Ruth prepares to make a statement about the end of her marriage, we take a look at her Loose Women colleagues who have also decided to end their marriages.

Linda Robson

Birds of a Feather actress, Linda, 65, announced her split from husband Mark Dunford on Loose Women last year after 33 years of marriage. Speaking to OK! magazine about the end of their relationship, she insisted there was no dramatic trigger for the split.

“People do, sometimes, don’t they? We never had that much in common. I’m very sociable. Mark never enjoyed that side of things,” she revealed.

The mother-of-four went on to explain how their children kept them together for so many years and was quick to praise her ex as “an amazing dad. I’ve been sad about it, of course, I have,” she confessed.

“But we had two lovely children together. But they’re all grown up, living their own lives now. Now, it’s me and Dolly the dog. [But] I’m in a really good place. Work’s good.”

Jane Moore

Meanwhile, journalist Jane Moore described her husband as still being her “best friend” when she announced their separation live on the ITV lunchtime show in 2022. The 62-year-old panelist married Gary Farrow in 2002 and they share daughters Ellie and Grace.

Jane is also stepmother to Gary’s elder daughter Lauren. Jane admitted that in 2021, she and Gary agreed to divorce but postponed the decision after Gary’s unfortunate broken leg incident.

She went on to add that they decided to spend one last merry season together in harmony before making things official in the approaching new year. Speaking of their situation she stated on ITV: “So Gary and I are separating. But it’s weird that it’s out there [in public] because we’ve been processing it for about a year.”

“We’re both quite private people. We had discussed it last year… it was going to happen last year. And then he fell and broke his leg and, no, I didn’t push him,” she chuckled.

Speaking about nursing her husband back to health, Jane finished: “I have been sort of caring for him in that sense of the word. It’s enabled us to sort of segue to process it first of all, and to sort of segue nicely into a really good friendship.”

Coleen Nolan

In 2018, Coleen Nolan declared an end to her decade-long relationship with Ray Fensome. The star admits fighting tooth and nail trying to salvage the sinking ship.

Writing in her Daily Mirror column, Coleen confessed: “I wanted to tell you first as I can hardly sit here and keep dishing out advice if I’m not being totally straight about what is going on in my own life.”

“There is too much dividing me and Ray. We can’t go back.” She also opened up about the couple’s horrifying 12 months fraught with relationship trials.

She added: “The last 12 months have been pretty hellish. I’ve been honest on Loose Women for a while that Ray and I have been having problems and it’s all I thought about in the Big Brother house.”

Andrea McLean

Andrea, 54, previously split with her second husband Steve Toms, a builder, in 2012. In an emotional chat with the Mirror, she admitted: “Steve and I had grown apart and we both knew it. We’d tried so many times to make it work, but it was hopeless.”

She further revealed: “I had hoped we’d be together forever, I insisted I wouldn’t make the mistakes I made in my first marriage and I wrote about how my heart would lift with love when I saw his name flash up on my phone.”

Discussing the end of her marriage, Andrea added sorrowfully: “I had hoped we’d be together forever, I insisted I wouldn’t make the mistakes I made in my first marriage and I wrote about how my heart would lift with love when I saw his name flash up on my phone. And I really meant it. I tried for a year to save our marriage. I tried so hard..”

Ironically, Andrea’s Loose Women show featured a debate about marriages breaking down as she battled through her own personal issues. Discussing her experience hosting, she confessed: “On my first Loose Women show of the New Year the topic was, ‘Why do marriages break down at Christmas.’ I just wanted to burst out crying, but somehow I got through.”

Despite keeping her marital struggles private initially, she confided finally: “I’d kept my marriage problems to myself and only Sherrie Hewson saw through my brave face. But I’ve explained everything now and I know the ladies will all be there for me.”

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