Ruth Langsford Wiki
Ruth Langsford is a Singapore-born English television presenter. She has presented various television shows, including This Morning from 1999 to the present in which she is currently the longest-serving presenter, Gift Wrapped (2014), How the Other Half Lives (2015–present), and Ruth Langsford’s Fashion Edit (2017–present). Since 1999, she has been a regular panelist on the ITV talk show Loose Women. In 2017, she took part in the fifteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, in which she finished in ninth place. She attended Saltash School in Cornwall from 1977 to 1978. She started her career as a continuity announcer and newscaster with ITV regional station Television South West (TSW) in Plymouth, England. She left TSW when Westcountry Television took over the franchise on 1 January 1993, closing down the station with a fellow announcer, Ian Stirling.
From 1999 until 2002, Langsford was a regular panelist on ITV’s daytime chat show Loose Women. In 2010, she returned to the show as a stand-in anchor until 2013. She rejoined Loose Women on 8 January 2014 as a regular anchor. She anchors the show in rotation with Jane Moore, Charlene White, and Christine Lampard. In 2000, Langsford became a guest presenter on This Morning and was made a regular presenter in 2006 where she co-hosted alongside Phillip Schofield, making her the longest-serving presenter of the program. Later that year, the show introduced Eamonn Holmes to co-host with Langsford every Friday. Together they currently host This Morning during school holidays, when Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby are absent from the program. She was one of the main presenters on the now-defunct TV Travel Shop which was on the air from April 1998 until March 2005. She also hosted The Answer Lies in the Soil (1999), The Great British Garden Show, Langsford Late (1999), The Really Useful Show (1997), Mysterious West (1995), and Gardens of the Millennium (1999).
In 2004, Langsford narrated the television series, Zoo Story. She guest presented five episodes of GMTV with Lorraine in 2010. She was a contestant on Marco’s Kitchen Burnout in 2010 and competed in Born to Shine in 2011. In 2014, Langsford and Eamonn Holmes co-hosted ten episodes of the ITV teatime quiz show Gift Wrapped. Since 2015, Langsford and Holmes have presented Channel 5 series How the Other Half Lives, and a third in 2017. In February 2017, she started co-presenting Ruth Langsford’s Fashion Edit alongside Jackie Kabler for QVC.In August 2017, she was the third celebrity announced to be taking part in the fifteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing. Her professional partner was Anton du Beke. She was the seventh celebrity to be eliminated. From March 2018, Langsford co-presented Do the Right Thing with Eamonn Holmes on Channel 5.
In September 2010, Langsford co-hosted the breakfast show on BBC London 94.9 alongside Paul Ross. In 2011, she became the brand ambassador for Playtex. In 2013, she became the brand ambassador for Clarivu™ refractive lens exchange procedure sold by Optegra. In 2014, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned a TV commercial featuring her on the grounds that her claims about Clarivu™ were misleading. She has written columns for Woman Magazine and Tesco Magazine. She was an ambassador for two Tesco food campaigns. She was on the judging panel for the Pride of Britain Awards in 2016.
Ruth Langsford Age
She was born Ruth Wendy Langsford on March 17, 1960 in Singapore.
Ruth Langsford Husband
She got married to her husband, Eamonn Holmes in 2010. In 1996, she started dating Eamonn Holmes, though the two kept their relationship secret for years out of respect for Holmes’ first wife, Gabrielle, from whom he was separated at the time. In 2002, Langsford gave birth to their son, Jack Alexander Holmes. They were married on June 26, 2010.
Ruth Langsford Son
She has one child, a son named Jack Holmes born in 2002. In 2017, Ruth revealed that her son has Dystonia in a This Morning interview.
Ruth Langsford Family
She is the daughter of Dennis Langsford, and Joan Langsford, and her sister is known as Julia Johnson.