The UK's greatest ever breakfast TV presenter has just been crowned
Eamonn Holmes has been voted the greatest UK breakfast TV presenter of all time, ahead of Piers Morgan.
He topped a RadioTimes.com poll of 33,000 readers from a shortlist of over 50 contenders with 35% of the vote, with Good Morning Britain's Piers only managing third with 6.3%, behind Johnny Vaughan with 22%.
These days, Eamonn is mostly seen on This Morning alongside his wife Ruth Langsford, but he has presented the likes of GMTV from 1993 to 2005 and Sky's Sunrise from 2005 to 2016.
'Well, I'm the longest serving breakfast TV presenter of all time so I'd like to think that, in some way, you're not only the longest or just hanging in there but it also equates to being quite good at it,' Eamonn noted.
'If people feel fondly for you, for what you've done, or what you're known as, my goodness me, it begins to make all those early starts, all that lack of sleep, almost worthwhile.'
He also reckons that Piers is the future of breakfast TV and will top a similar poll in years to come.
'I think as a genre breakfast is dying because people's tastes are changing and their habits are changing, but I think what Piers has done is that he has said, "We may be dying but we're going to go out kicking and screaming on this one",' Eamonn explained.
Piers' GMB co-host Susanna Reid was the highest placed female breakfast TV presenter on the poll, charting sixth.
The list of top 10 presenters was as follows:
Eamonn Holmes
Johnny Vaughan
Piers Morgan
Dan Walker
Bill Turnbull
Susanna Reid
Louise Minchin
Steph McGovern
Chris Evans
Lorraine Kelly
Good Morning Britain airs on ITV weekdays from 6am, while This Morning follows on the channel later in the day at 10.30am
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