Mel B takes swipe at Eamonn Holmes during feisty appearance on The Weakest Link
Mel B took multiple swipes at Eamonn Holmes during a feisty appearance on The Weakest Link.
The pair both appeared on the celebrity edition of the long-running BBC general knowledge game show.
On one round, both Eamonn Holmes and Mel B got one question wrong each and so they were labelled as the Weakest Link.
As per the rule of the BBC One game, the players had to decide who they would like to eliminate.
Mel voted to eliminate the former This Morning star alongside radio personality Arielle Free and Morning Live chef Briony May Williams.
While TV presenter Eamonn chose his rival along with Rob Bent and former Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati.
As the votes came to a draw, Shobna was the strongest player of the round and she had the deciding vote.
She stuck with her original decision and decided that the former Spice Girls star should be eliminated from the game.
However, Mel protested her exit when host Romesh Ranganathan asked how she felt.
“Well, I did get one right,” she exclaimed in a seeming dig at the former ITV presenter.
Adding: “Eamonn got two wrong.”
But he couldn’t help but interject as he knew Mel’s statements were actually incorrect.
“Did I?”, he asked. “I demand a VAR decision on that!”
As the rest of the studio was in hysterics at her blunder and Eamonn’s joke, Mel then changed her argument.
“Well he took a long time. You took a long time to give your answers, you took up a lot of time!” she insisted.
This was before Romesh then asked her if she held any grudges against Eamonn, to which the singer stated, “a lot.”
Ruth and Eamonn's relationship timeline
Before the shock split announcement, Ruth and Eamonn seemed like one of the strongest couples on UK TV – even with their signature bickering style.
Here’s how their romance played out…
1997 – The couple first meet after being introduced by mutual friends, two years after Eamonn splits from his first wife, Gabrielle, with whom he has three children.
1997-2002 – To be respectful to Gabrielle, the couple kept their relationship out of the limelight. Ruth told Daily Mail: “I thought it spoke volumes about the sort of man he was, the sort of father he was and the integrity he had. It made me love him more, not less.”
2002 – Ruth and Eamonn welcome their son, Jack, to the family.
2005 – Eamonn finalises his divorce with Gabrielle.
2006 – The pair begin to host Friday episodes of This Morning together.
2010 – Eamonn proposes to Ruth while at the Cheltenham Races, after asking Ruth’s mother for her hand.
June 2010 – Eamonn and Ruth marry at Elvetham Hall, Hampshire.
2016 – Eamonn undergoes a double hip replacement in the first of many health battles.
June 2019 – On This Morning, Ruth and Eamonn say the secret to their happy marriage. Eamonn credits “compromise, consideration and lots of conjugal,” while Ruth said it was “laughter and an equal marriage”.
November 2020 – Ruth and Eamonn are replaced on their regular Friday slot by Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary in a ‘show shake-up’.
December 2021 – After a year of being moved to the bank holiday presenting slot, both Eamonn and Ruth left This Morning.
January 2022 – Eamonn debuted on GB News, while Ruth stayed with ITV in her long-standing role on Loose Women.
September 2022 – Eamonn undergoes spinal surgery after years of back issues including a trapped sciatic nerve.
November 2022 – Eamonn falls down the stairs of his Surrey home with Ruth and breaks his shoulder, requiring a new operation.
September 2023 – Eamonn has a spine and neck stretching procedure as part of his year-long recovery.
May 2024 – Ruth and Eamonn announce they have split after 14 years of marriage and a 27-year relationship.
September 2024 – Eamonn was spotted on a luxury holiday in Barcelona with his new girlfriend Katie Alexander. Ruth calls in a ‘fierce’ divorce lawyer.
The Weakest Link is available to watch back on BBC iPlayer.