Eamonn Holmes & Katie Alexander started exchanging flirty online messages 12 YEARS ago as couple share cruise snaps

EAMONN Holmes and his caller person started exchanging flirty online messages 12 years ago, The Sun connected Sunday tin reveal.

When their banter started successful 2012 it included Katie Alexander’s husband, George.

At 1 constituent the businessman adjacent joked to the TV presenter: “Think she’s flirting with you.” And George, a diehard Manchester United instrumentality similar Eamonn, added connected Twitter: “Good occupation we’re some Red.”

The Sun connected Sunday told successful May however Eamonn’s 14-year marriage to Loose Women favourite Ruth Langsford collapsed aft she recovered messages between him and different woman connected a laptop.

Last night, a root said: “We knew Eamonn and Katie got unneurotic via social media, but nary 1 knew however acold backmost they went.

“Ruth volition beryllium shocked they were successful interaction 12 years ago. I don’t deliberation she would person known.”

They went on: “Eamonn gets a buzz retired of replying to messages from fans. He and Katie had a existent connection, and it blossomed into thing more.

“But astatine the outset George joined successful with the online banter. He would ne'er person guessed Katie was going to get unneurotic with Eamonn years down the line.”

Our latest revelation comes arsenic mum-of-three Katie, 42, showed disconnected her vacation snaps from a seven-day cruise with 64-year-old Eamonn successful September.

George, 53, and matrimony therapist Katie divorced successful 2022 aft 12 years together.

He aboriginal became alert that Eamonn and Katie were meeting.

It emerged that Eamonn had been showering gifts and treats connected Katie and her children successful the months earlier the matrimony ended.

She adjacent stayed astatine a luxury edifice successful Surrey conscionable 10 minutes from Eamonn’s marital home.

Ruth, 64, present wants a divorce and has hired £400-an-hour lawyer Catherine Costley.

She antecedently worked nether the country’s apical divorcement lawyer, “Steel Magnolia” Baroness Fiona Shackleton, who represented the King successful his divided from Diana, arsenic good arsenic Sir Paul McCartney.

Meanwhile, Eamonn is getting acceptable to marque his archetypal red carpet quality with Katie astatine the achromatic necktie Irish Post Awards astatine London’s five-star Grosvenor House Hotel connected Thursday.

The presenter is hosting the lawsuit which volition beryllium attended by stars including Micheal Flatley, Una Healey, Laura Whitmore and Bananarama’s Siobhan Fahey.

An insider said: “Katie adores getting dressed up and wearing dresses and heels. It’s a large nighttime for Eamonn and she wants to beryllium determination to enactment him.”

The Sun connected Sunday tin besides uncover that Eamonn’s semipermanent idiosyncratic adjunct discontinue abruptly past week. Nicola Finn was admired successful the showbiz manufacture for her moving of his Surrey-based business Holmes & Away.

Katie is present temporarily helping tally his diary. Pals said her caller relation shows however besotted Eamonn has go arsenic the mates “plan for the future together”.

A spokesperson for Eamonn said the TV anchor — who had a treble hep replacement successful 2016 and uses a wheelchair aft backmost country past twelvemonth — has nary plans to permanently regenerate Nicola with Katie full-time.

Ruth, successful the meantime, has been having a glow-up, getting hair extensions, eating healthily and trying retired caller fashion.

A root said: “She’s getting her beingness backmost connected way and looking to the future.

“The much it emerges what Eamonn’s up to, she’s realising she’s overmuch amended disconnected without him.”

Ruth and Eamonn met successful 1997. She gave commencement to their son, Jack, successful 2002. Eamonn has 3 children from his archetypal marriage.

The mates won millions of fans presenting ITV’s This Morning unneurotic betwixt 2006 and 2021.

Kate booze cruise

KATIE Alexander shows disconnected her oversea legs arsenic she poses successful a captain’s chapeau and denim shorts connected a Mediterranean cruise with Eamonn Holmes.

As good arsenic the pic successful the skipper’s seat, she shared snaps of her with a vessel a bubbly and an Aperol spritz connected the £15,000 seven-day holiday.

Another photograph was taken connected the balcony of Virgin Voyages’ Scarlet Lady.

In it, mum-of-three Katie wears a achromatic £315 Nadine Merabi formal with a plunging neckline.

She precocious posted the images from her September vacation with Eamonn connected Instagram.

She teamed them with Markus Howard song, Just Keep Swimming. The lyrics include: “Through each storm, each twist and turn, there’s a acquisition here, thing to learn.”

Eamonn, utilizing a wheelchair, was spotted stroking Katie’s bottommost arsenic they headed retired successful Ibiza Town.

By Stephen Moyes