Ruth Langsford

Ruth Langsford presented ITV1's flagship daytime show This Morning every Friday with her real-life former partner Eamonn Holmes.

She has been a host on Loose Women and often guests on panel and comedy shows, including Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Keith Barry's Magic Show. She was even caught by Eamonn in bed with Rob Brydon on Annually Retentive!

Ruth is also a writer and is currently a weekly columnist for Woman magazine. She has fronted high profile commercial campaigns, is a voice-over artist and charismatic awards host and conference facilitator at corporate events. She has also narrated documentaries for Channel 4, Five and the History Channel, as well as corporate videos and radio commercials.

Her passion for cooking has seen her appear on Ready Steady Cook, host Carlton Television's Food Network Daily and Westcountry TV's cookery competitions series Taste of the West.

A keen gardener, Ruth Langsford presented The Great British Garden Show on BBC2, ITV's gardening quiz show The Answer Lies in the Soil and Gardens of the Millennium for The History Channel.

Her career started at ITV in the Westcountry 25 years ago where she fronted the evening news programme and presented her own chat show. From there, she moved into national television and has fronted shows for BBC1, BBC2, ITV and severaldigital channels. Born in Singapore, the child of an army family, Ruth lived in five countries before the age of 10, ranging from Germany to North Africa. She's a keen DIY-er and seamstress, with her own toolbox and sewing machine! She's also badly claustrophobic and suffers from chronic seasickness.