Eamonn Holmes issues concerning health update after nasty fall

Eamonn Holmes has issued fans with a concerning health update after recently suffering a fall during a live TV broadcast.

GB News viewers were given an almighty shock when the news host, 65, toppled off his chair live on-air during a chat with social commentator Charlie Rowley.

After hitting the floor, the former This Morning presenter shouted to the other guests that he was ‘fine, fine, fine’ and urged them to ‘carry on’ during the incident.

Eamonn initially blamed the ‘wonky wheels’ on his chair, which left his co-hosts gasping and caused one off-camera producer to shout, ‘Oh my gosh!’

However, after initially downplaying the fall, saying he wasn’t the only person in the GB News studio to have taken a tumble, he’s now issued a heartbreaking update.

The Northern Irish broadcaster made the admission during a segment on his GB News breakfast show, which sees him present alongside Ellie Costello.

Joined by Tim Vincent and Dawn Neesom to delve into the latest headlines, they discussed the research into exercising helping to reduce a person’s risk of developing cancer.

‘This makes me feel awful, because I would have been pro-exercise, but I can’t move,’ Eamonn shared.

‘I’m in a wheelchair now.’

He added: ‘I can’t put on trainers, I can’t change, I can’t go to the showers, I can’t do things, I can’t stand up.

‘There are a lot of people who are incapable of exercising, and therefore, rightly so, an increase of cancer growing.’ 

Offering sympathy, Tim told him: ‘You’re obviously in a really difficult position.

‘Any exercise I think is going to help, especially for these people who have had cancer once and can get out there.’

Eamonn has required mobility aids for some time now.

He’s had to deal with numerous complications in recent years, including slipped discs in his back, ongoing spinal issues, and a double hip replacement.

Following the fall, GB News took a six-minute advert break, after which Eamonn joked that he was ‘still alive’ but that he ‘didn’t like’ the chairs in the studio anymore.

He said afterwards: ‘[The fall] was a shock for me because I had a fall two weeks ago in my bathroom that hospitalised me and that hit me right in the back. And that hit me again right in the back. Really, really sore, really sore.’

A source then told The Mail: ‘Everyone at GB News is rallying round Eamonn. He’s had an horrendous couple of years, but he has the full support of the channel and all of his colleagues. 

‘Eamonn’s health problems have presented challenges for him and for the channel, but bosses are working on ways they can help him in any way they can.’ 

In 2016, the breakfast TV presenter revealed that he’d undergone hip surgery after complaining of persistent pain for a while beforehand.

Two years later, he came down with shingles, and in 2022, after the Covid-19 pandemic, he underwent back surgery after suffering from chronic pain in his back for months.

Eamonn confessed that he ‘thought he was dead’ after a fall at his home earlier this year, which saw his feet ‘fly up in the air’ after crashing onto a ‘cold, hard, slippery floor’.

He explained: ‘I was very worried about me. [I] fell on the bathroom floor and once I was down, I couldn’t get up. It was the worst bang to my head and shoulder.

‘I went down and I said, “I’m dead” I have never had a bang to the head as sore and as powerful as that before. I lay there and I thought, “Where’s the blood?’” There was nothing, no blood, no split, nothing like that.’

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