This Morning<\/a> with Eamonn for 15 years, admitted she had to have a stern word with herself following the painful split.<\/p>\nShe continued: “I had to give myself a good talking to because I was catastrophising, \u2018I\u2019m going to be on my own, I don\u2019t have a partner, what am I going to do?<\/p>\n
“I was literally asking, \u2018What\u2019s going to become of me?\u2019, like some sad, lonely woman in a Jane Austen novel.<\/p>\n
“But then age and experience told me, \u2018Ruth, you\u2019re not going to die from this. I mean you are going to die, one day, but you\u2019re not going to die from divorce\u2018.”<\/p>\n
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The husband-and-wife duo co-presented This Morning for 15 years.
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The daytime TV personality explained how she forced herself to turn a corner by refocusing her attention on work and dedicated lots of time to her son Jack.<\/p>\n
She also spent her free hours cooking, gardening and travelling the world as she explored her new-found freedom, as revealed in her tell-all memoir Feeling Fabulous, out next week.<\/p>\n
As for a new relationship, Ruth is still officially single, unlike Eamonn, who moved on with dating counsellor Katie Alexander in 2024.<\/p>\n
He went public with his new girlfriend, who is 23 years younger, shortly after his split from Ruth was announced in the press. <\/p>\n
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Now, the daytime star is feeling strong and hopeful.
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According to fresh reports, Eamonn has bought a plush new property in Holywood, Northern Ireland, so he and Katie can spend more quality time together.<\/p>\n
A source said: “Eamonn loves going back to Northern Ireland visiting family and he\u2019s been after a new place there for a while.<\/p>\n
“It will be the perfect place to build a home with Katie, with no \u00admemories of anyone else.<\/p>\n
“They can use it for weekend retreats.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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