Heartbreaking developers at GB News, whose presenters, having apparently run out of hot-button culture wars issues to vent their rage at, have turned on each other.
A number of hosts at the hard right broadcaster are said to have been furious that Eamonn Holmes allegedly sought to take the glory when the channel’s breakfast show won a Television and Radio Industries Club award last week despite being only one of the cast of presenters. It comes amid broader complaints about GB News’s “blokey” workplace culture.
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After Holmes accepted the gong at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, making a long acceptance speech, one co-star told the Daily Mail: “It was all about Eamonn – again. Winners had a limited amount of time to talk before [awards host] Dan Walker took their microphone away – and Eamonn kept talking until that moment came.
“Stephen [Dixon] hosts more days than Eamonn yet there was absolutely no regard for him, or Ellie [Costello] or Anne [Diamond]. It was ‘me, me, me’ as far as Eamonn was concerned… There are a lot of people who put a lot of work in – not that you would have known it.”
Holmes is apparently also resented for his rumoured £300k salary, higher than that of his many colleagues. “Some people at GB News despise him,” the mole said. The row follows news that an HR probe is underway at the station after a young producer was left bruised following an unconnected on-set incident.
