Eamonn Holmes
Internal conferences, awards nights, and town halls fail when the person on stage cannot read the room. A flat host produces a flat audience, and the strategic message lands without weight. Senior leaders need someone who can carry a live audience, hold senior guests to account in conversation, and shift register from serious to warm without losing the room.
Eamonn Holmes OBE is one of the UK’s most experienced live broadcasters, hired by organisations to host awards ceremonies, conferences and after-dinner events where the room has to be carried by the person on stage.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Eamonn Holmes
- Four decades of live broadcasting at GMTV, Sky News Sunrise, This Morning and GB News, which means a stage, a teleprompter glitch, or an off-script guest is not a problem he has to think about.
- TRIC Awards News Presenter of the Year and three consecutive Best News Programme wins for GB News Breakfast, giving organisations a current, in-demand broadcast name on the bill.
- Interviewing range built across breakfast news, daytime ITV and political broadcasting, useful when a corporate event requires a sharp on-stage Q&A with a CEO, minister or sports figure.
- A face the audience already knows. For UK corporate audiences, Holmes carries instant recognition that warms a cold room before the agenda starts.
- Comfortable across awards hosting, after-dinner speaking, panel moderation and conference chairing; one booking covers most of the formats senior teams build events around.
Biography highlights
- OBE for services to broadcasting, 2018 New Year Honours.
- Co-presenter, GMTV, 1993 to 2005.
- Lead presenter, Sky News Sunrise, 2005 to 2016.
- Co-presenter, This Morning on ITV, 2006 to 2021.
- Presenter, GB News Breakfast, 2022 to present.
- TRIC Awards News Presenter of the Year; GB News Breakfast won Best News Programme three years running.
Biography
GMTV launched on 1 January 1993, and Holmes was on air for the first edition. He stayed twelve years. That is the foundation: a presenter who learned live television in the discipline of breakfast news, where the autocue fails, the guest is late, and the producer is in your ear with thirty seconds to fill.
From GMTV he moved to Sky News Sunrise for eleven years, then to ITV’s This Morning, where he and Ruth Langsford presented the Friday edition for fifteen years. Since 2022 he has anchored GB News Breakfast, which has won Best News Programme at the TRIC Awards three years in a row. He was appointed OBE for services to broadcasting in 2018.
For senior buyers, the value is straightforward. A host who has logged thousands of live broadcast hours brings something a conference moderator pulled from a one-off panel cannot: composure when the AV fails, a sense of timing in the room, and the interviewing instinct to push a guest without alienating them. Awards ceremonies, internal conferences and after-dinner formats all benefit from that craft.
He works across hosting, moderating, panel chairing and after-dinner formats, with an interviewing range that runs from breakfast soft-news to political accountability. For organisations choosing the face of their flagship event, he is a known name with the live broadcast experience to carry it.
Key speaking topics
- Awards hosting
- Conference and event moderation
- On-stage interviewing
- After-dinner speaking
- Panel chairing
- Broadcast media and journalism
Ideal for
- Corporate awards ceremonies and gala dinners.
- Internal conferences, town halls and leadership summits requiring a recognised host.
- Industry conferences needing a senior moderator for keynote interviews and panels.
- Brand or sponsor events where on-stage Q&A with named guests is central.
Audience outcomes
- An event that runs to time with a host who can absorb agenda changes without showing it.
- Sharper on-stage interviews with senior guests, drawing out content the audience came to hear.
- Higher audience engagement from a recognised broadcast presence on stage.
- A confident handover between agenda items, sponsors and award categories.