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Our 11 favourite reactions to the news that Eamonn Holmes is joining GB News

That stalwart of various morning news and entertainment vehicles, Eamonn Holmes, is making the leap to GB News – the anti-woke channel that has so far choked the TV careers of Andrew Neil, Simon McCoy and Alastair Stewart, to name but a few.

Beset by technical difficulties and viewer pranks from the outset, GB News has struggled to make an appearance beyond the bottom of the ratings charts, even being outperformed by the Welsh language version of PAW Patrol at one point.

Here’s how the news broke.

It wasn’t exactly a bombshell, with plenty of people thinking the Irish presenter’s foot-in-mouth disease makes him a perfect fit.

Here he is telling Dr. Zoe Williams he wants to pet her hair.

And here’s his expert opinion on the link between 5G and coronavirus. Spoiler alert – there isn’t a link.

His gaffe reel may not rival Boris Johnson’s, but it must be pretty impressive. It obviously got him the GB News gig.

Here’s what Twitter had to say about it.

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We’ll leave the last word to Otto English.

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