Truth about Eamonn Holmes' 'engagement' to new younger girlfriend: Friends tell KATIE HIND why it's 'weird' and Ruth is so 'worried'... and of the intriguing mystery that's casting a cloud over the relationship
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When paparazzi photographs emerged of Eamonn Holmes and his new girlfriend enjoying a mini break in the City of Love, even the presenter's friends began to gossip about their relationship. While a miserable looking Eamonn, 65, shuffled around in an electronic mobility chair - which he uses due to a crippling back problem - Katie Alexander, who is 21 years his junior, stood beside him, wearing a £1,000 Hermes scarf, a £139.99 Mango faux leather coat and a £1,600 Louis Vuitton handbag as they left the Louvre museum in Paris earlier this week.
![[Eamonn and Katie were spotted by paparazzi in Ibiza while enjoying a luxurious cruise around Europe - a freebie given to Eamonn after he signed a lucrative deal to be an ambassador for the holiday company Not Just Travel]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/20/11/93349673-14213559-image-m-28_1734695986050.jpg)
What puzzled Eamonn's friends was the dazzling ring on psychotherapist Katie's wedding finger - given that the Good Morning presenter's divorce from his ex-wife and co-host Ruth Langsford is nowhere near complete, and that his agent had insisted the pair were only in Paris to 'visit art and museums'.
![[Friends say that Eamonn and Ruth, who have a 22-year-old son named Jack together, had initially struggled to remain amicable during their divorce proceedings but things have 'thawed' recently]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/20/11/93350801-14213559-image-a-7_1734695128557.jpg)
All of them, I'm told, are asking the same question: what would Katie, an attractive and intelligent 43-year-old divorcee, see in Eamonn, who - following his recent health battles - is said to be becoming increasingly cantankerous? (Since a nasty fall in 2022, Eamonn has finally given in to using a walker and mobility chair. He also underwent a double hip operation in 2015.).
Katie is said to spend a lot of time at Eamonn's new bachelor pad, a penthouse in a modest block of flats on the Kingston one-way system in south-west London. But friends tell me that they are 'too polite' to ask Holmes about the exact nature of their relationship.
