Ruth Langsford

At 64 years old, Ruth Langsford has this physical status:

Ruth Langsford (born 17 March 1960 in Singapore) is an English television presenter on shows including This Morning, Gift Wrapped, and How the Other Half Lives. Langsford is a reporter on ITV's lunchtime chat show Loose Women and Women, as well as Ruth Langsford's Fashion Edit on QVC.

She appeared in the fifteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, where she placed ninth place.

She is now the longest serving female presenter of This Morning.

Ruth is best known for her exclusive fashion range for British fashion brand QVC.

Langsford signed a multi million pound endorsement contract that resulted in 19 sellout collections; 18 of which debuted at London Fashion Week Women's Collection, after being approached to curate a set of collections.

Early life

Ruth Langsford was born in Singapore, to Dennis and Joan Langsford. She lived in five countries before ten years, including West Germany and four countries in North Africa. Langsford attended Saltash School in Cornwall from 1977 to 1978.

Personal life

Langsford began dating Eamonn Holmes in 1996, but the two kept their relationship private for years out of respect for Holmes' first wife, Gabrielle, who was then divorced at the time. Langsford's son, Jack Alexander Holmes, was born in 2002. They were married on June 26, 2010.

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Career

Langsford began her work as a continuity announcer and newscaster with ITV's regional station Television South West (TSW) in Plymouth, England. On January 1, 1993, she left TSW when Westcountry Television took over the company, closing the station with fellow announcer Ian Stirling.

Langsford appeared on ITV's daytime chat show Loose Women from 1999 to 2002. She returned to the show in 2010 as a stand-in anchor until 2013. Langsford returned to Loose Women on January 8th, 2014 as a regular anchor. Jane Moore, Charlene White, Christine Lampard, and Kaye Adams lead the show in rotation.

Langsford began as a guest host on This Morning in 2000 and was named as a regular host in 2006, making her the longest serving host of the program. Eamonn Holmes, a co-host with Langsford, will appear on the show later this year.

Langsford was one of the main presenters on the now defunct TV Travel Shop, which was on air from April 1998 to March 2005. (1997), She hosted The Answer Lies in the Soil (1999), Langsford late (1999), The Great British Garden Show (1997), Mysterious West (1995), and Gardens of the Millennium (1999).

Langsford narrated the television series Zoo Story in 2004. In 2010, Lorraine Sherwood appeared on GMTV with Lorraine. Langsford appeared on Marco's Kitchen Burnout in 2010 and 2011 and represented in Born to Shine.

Langsford and Eamonn Holmes co-hosted ten episodes of the ITV teatime quiz show Gift Wrapped in 2014.

Langsford and Holmes have appeared on Channel 5's How the Other Half Lives since 2015, and a third in 2017.

Langsford co-presented Ruth Langsford's Fashion Edit with Jackie Kabler for QVC in February 2017.

Langsford was the third celebrity to be confirmed to be participating in the fifteenth season of Strictly Come Dancing on August 9, 2017. Anton du Beke, her career partner, was her partner. She was the seventh celebrity to be fired and left the show on November 12th.

Langsford co-presented Do the Right Thing with Eamonn Holmes on Channel 5, beginning in March 2018.

Langsford and GP Amir Khan co-presented the Channel 5 dieting series Lose a Stone in Four Weeks for Summer, both in 2019 and again in 2020.

Langsford and Paul Ross co-hosted the breakfast show on BBC London 94.9 in September 2010.

Langsford became Playtex's brand ambassador in 2011.

Langsford began as a brand ambassador for Optegra's Clarivu refractive lens exchange procedure in 2013.

Langsford has written columns for Woman Magazine and Tesco Magazine. She served as an ambassador for two Tesco food campaigns.

In 2016, she was on the judging panel for the Pride of Britain Awards.

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