Ruth Langsford
Ruth Langsford (born 17 March 1960) is an English television presenter.
Langsford began her career as a continuity announcer and newscaster with ITV regional station TSW in the South West of England. She left TSW when Westcountry Television took over the franchise on 1 January 1993, even closing down the station with fellow announcer, the late Ian Stirling.
Since then she has presented such programmes as Loose Women, Langsford Late, Gardens of the Millennium and The Really Useful Show. Since 2000 she has been a guest presenter on ITV's This Morning, and was made a regular presenter in 2006 and now presents every Friday, with her husband Eamonn Holmes. Together they also host This Morning during school holidays, when Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby are on a break.
Langsford was one of the main presenters on the now defunct TV Travel Shop which was on air from April 1998 to March 2005.
In December 2007, Langsford was revealed as the new face of ScS Furniture, replacing Martin Kemp.
Television appearances
Programme credits: 1986–92
- TSW Today, (TSW) presenter/newsreader - nightly, live six o'clock regional news programme
- The Boat Show, presenter for an innovative series of twelve half-hour sailing/holiday programmes directed by Chris Watson
- Interpub, presenter for two series of pub team quiz shows (filmed as live)
Programme credits: 1992–99
- The Answer Lies in the Soil, (ITV) presenter - television’s first gardening quiz show
- The Great British Garden Show, (BBC Two) presenter - series of six half-hour programmes shown at 7.30pm
- Countryfile, (BBC One) reporter - various wide-ranging reports and interviews on countryside issues
- Plates From the States, (Carlton Food Network) presenter - series of fifty programmes educating the Brits about food from the USA
- Really Useful Show, (BBC One) presenter – live daytime consumer/current affairs programme
- Stranger Than Fiction, (Westcountry Television) presenter – a series of programmes that unravelled some enduring mysteries surrounding the Westcountry, and its history
- Down To You, (Central Independent Television) presenter – live antiques programme. Series of 10 half hour programmes beginning January 1998 in which members of the public bid to buy the antiques of their choice
- Dressing Up, (Westcountry Television) presenter - fashion show
- Treasures, (LWT/Westcountry Television) presenter - series of eight half-hour programmes exploring the world of antiques and collecting in general. Filmed in most of the major auction houses in London interviewing their in-house experts
- Brief Encounters, (Westcountry Television) presenter - two series of light entertainment programmes taking a wry look at people's passions and pastimes – often getting involved - everything from hot air ballooning to underwater hockey
- Healthy by Nature, (Westcountry Television) presenter - series of six half-hour programmes investigating alternative health
- The Mysterious West, (Westcountry Television) presenter - series of ten half-hour programmes exploring the world of the paranormal. Interviewing people living with ghosts, UFO sightings, alien abductions, past lives etc.
- Home Movies, (HTV/Westcountry Television) narrator - series of six half-hour programmes looking back at people's lives using their old cine film footage (sold to Channel 4)
Programme credits: 1999–present
- This Morning, ITV co-presenter (Fridays and school holidays) - a live daytime television magazine programme
- Gardens of the Millennium, ITV presenter - a series highlighting the south of England's best public gardens and the history of gardens over the past 2000 years
- Loose Women, (ITV) panelist and anchor - a live topical debate show - 1999-2002, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010. She was a valued member of Loose Women in the early stages, and has since began to dip in and out
Radio
In September 2010 Langsford co-hosted the Breakfast Show on BBC London 94.9 alongside Paul Ross.[2]
Personal life
On 26 February 2002 Langsford had a child, Jack Alexander, with her husband and fellow television presenter Eamonn Holmes.
In April 2007 Langsford and Holmes appeared as fictionalised versions of themselves in Rob Brydon's satirical sit-com on life behind the cameras on a topical news quiz, Annually Retentive.
Langsford lives in Weybridge, Surrey with Holmes and their son. After a viewer noticed a diamond ring on Langsford's finger, it was announced live on This Morning on 27 March 2009 that Langsford and Holmes were engaged. On 26 June 2010, they married in Hampshire.[3]
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Langsford, Ruth |
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British TV presenter |
| Date of birth |
17 March 1960 |
| Place of birth |
Singapore |
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