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In February 2017, Langsford began co-presenting ''Ruth Langsford's Fashion Edit'' alongside [[Jackie Kabler]] for [[QVC (UK)|QVC]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qvcuk.com/content/ambassadors/ruth-langsford.html|title=Ruth Langsford at QVC - QVCUK.com|website=Qvcuk.com|accessdate=29 October 2017}}</ref>
In February 2017, Langsford began co-presenting ''Ruth Langsford's Fashion Edit'' alongside [[Jackie Kabler]] for [[QVC (UK)|QVC]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qvcuk.com/content/ambassadors/ruth-langsford.html|title=Ruth Langsford at QVC - QVCUK.com|website=Qvcuk.com|accessdate=29 October 2017}}</ref>


===''Strictly Come Dancing''===
{{main|Strictly Come Dancing (series 15)}}
On 9 August 2017, Langsford was the third celebrity announced to be taking part in the [[Strictly Come Dancing (series 15)|fifteenth series]] of ''[[Strictly Come Dancing]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/strictlycomedancing/entries/3abde5b9-a6ca-4428-9186-308c32f3bcfd|title=Loose Women's Ruth Langsford is limbering up for Strictly!|date=9 August 2017|website=Strictly Come Dancing|accessdate=29 October 2017}}</ref> Her professional partner is [[Anton du Beke]].
On 9 August 2017, Langsford was the third celebrity announced to be taking part in the [[Strictly Come Dancing (series 15)|fifteenth series]] of ''[[Strictly Come Dancing]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/strictlycomedancing/entries/3abde5b9-a6ca-4428-9186-308c32f3bcfd|title=Loose Women's Ruth Langsford is limbering up for Strictly!|date=9 August 2017|website=Strictly Come Dancing|accessdate=29 October 2017}}</ref> Her professional partner is [[Anton du Beke]].

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|- style="text-align:Center; background:#ccc;"
| rowspan="2"|'''Week #'''
| rowspan="2"|'''Dance'''/'''Song'''
| colspan="4"|'''Judges' score'''
| rowspan="2"|'''Total'''
| rowspan="2"|'''Result'''
|- style="text-align:center; background:#ccc;"
| style="width:10%; "|Revel Horwood
| style="width:10%; "|Bussell
| style="width:10%; "|Ballas
| style="width:10%; "|Tonioli
|- style="text-align:center; background:#faf6f6;"
||1
||[[Waltz]] / "[[This Nearly Was Mine]]"
||3
||4
||4
||5
||16
||No elimination
|- style="text-align:center; background:#faf6f6;"
||2
||[[Charleston (dance)|Charleston]] / "[[Charleston (song)|The Charleston]]"
||3
||5
||6
||6
||20
||Safe
|- style="text-align:center; background:#faf6f6;"
||3
||[[Rhumba|Rumba]] / "[[Diamonds Are Forever (soundtrack)|Diamonds Are Forever]]"
||3
||5
||3
||4
||15
||Safe
|- style="text-align:center; background:#faf6f6;"
||4
||[[Tango]] / "Allegretto"
||6
||6
||6
||6
||24
||Safe
|- style="text-align:center; background:#faf6f6;"
||5
||[[Samba (ballroom dance)|Samba]] / "[[Love Is in the Air (song)|Love Is in the Air]]"
||5
||5
||6
||N/A
||16
||Safe
|- style="text-align:center; background:#faf6f6;"
||6
||[[Quickstep]] / "[[Bewitched|Bewitched Theme]]"
||4
||6
||6
||6
||22
||Safe
|}


===Other work===
===Other work===

Revision as of 05:10, 30 October 2017

Ruth Langsford
Langsford in 2008
Born
Ruth Wendy Langsford

(1960-03-17) 17 March 1960 (age 64)
Singapore
NationalityBritish
OccupationTelevision presenter
Years active1986–present
Employer(s)ITV, Channel 5, QVC
AgentJames Grant
TelevisionLoose Women
This Morning
Gift Wrapped
How the Other Half Lives
Ruth Langsford's Fashion Edit
SpouseEamonn Holmes (m. 2010)
ChildrenJack Alexander Holmes
Parent(s)Dennis and Joan Langsford
WebsiteOfficial website

Ruth Wendy Langsford (born 17 March 1960) is an English television presenter, best known for presenting numerous shows with her husband Eamonn Holmes such as This Morning (2000–present), Gift Wrapped (2014) and How the Other Half Lives (2015–present).

Langsford is also an anchor on ITV's lunchtime chat show Loose Women and presents Ruth Langsford's Fashion Edit on QVC. She is taking part in the fifteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing.

Early life

Langsford was born in Singapore to father Dennis and mother Joan. She lived in five different countries before the age of ten including Germany and four countries in North Africa. Langsford attended Saltash School in Cornwall from 1977 until 1978.

Career

Television

Langsford began her career as a continuity announcer and newscaster with ITV regional station TSW in South West England. She left TSW when Westcountry Television took over the franchise on 1 January 1993, even closing down the station with fellow announcer, Ian Stirling.

From 1999 until 2002, Langsford was a regular panellist on ITV's daytime chat show Loose Women. In 2010, she returned to the show as a stand-in anchor until 2013. Langsford rejoined Loose Women on 8 January 2014 as a regular anchor.[1] She anchors the show in rotation with Andrea McLean and Christine Lampard.

In 2000, Langsford became a guest presenter on This Morning, and was made a regular presenter in 2006 where she co-hosted alongside Phillip Schofield. Later that year, the show introduced Eamonn Holmes to co-host with Langsford every Friday. Together they currently host This Morning on Fridays, during school holidays and when Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby are absent from the programme.

Langsford was one of the main presenters on the now defunct TV Travel Shop which was on air from April 1998 until March 2005. She also hosted The Answer Lies in the Soil (1999), The Great British Garden Show, Langsford Late (1999), The Really Useful Show (1997) and Gardens of the Millennium (1999).

In 2004, Langsford narrated the television series Zoo Story. She guest presented five episodes of GMTV with Lorraine in 2010. Langsford was a contestant on Marco's Kitchen Burnout in 2010 and competed in Born to Shine in 2011.[2]

In 2014, Langsford and Eamonn Holmes co-hosted ten episodes of the ITV teatime quiz show Gift Wrapped.[3]

Since 2015, Langsford and Holmes have presented Channel 5 series How the Other Half Lives, and a third in 2017.

In February 2017, Langsford began co-presenting Ruth Langsford's Fashion Edit alongside Jackie Kabler for QVC.[4]

On 9 August 2017, Langsford was the third celebrity announced to be taking part in the fifteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing.[5] Her professional partner is Anton du Beke.

Other work

In September 2010, Langsford co-hosted the breakfast show on BBC London 94.9 alongside Paul Ross.[6] In 2011, Langsford became the brand ambassador for Playtex.[7]

Langsford has written columns for Woman Magazine and Tesco Magazine. She was an ambassador for two Tesco food campaigns.[8][9]

Langsford was on the judging panel for the Pride of Britain Awards in 2016.

Personal life

Langsford (centre) with husband Eamonn Holmes (right) and Holly Willoughby (left).

In 1997, Langsford and Eamonn Holmes started a personal relationship. In 2002, they had a son, Jack Alexander.[10][11] It was announced live on This Morning that Langsford and Holmes were engaged. On 26 June 2010, they married at Elvetham Hall, near Hartley Wintney, Hampshire.[10]

Langsford lives in a six-bedroom mansion in Weybridge, Surrey with her family.

The family have a Border Collie and Dachshund cross called Maggie, which they adopted from the Dogs Trust in 2011.[12][13]

Charity work

Langsford is an ambassador for Alzheimer's Society[14]. She has completed the Hyde Park Adidas Women's 5k, the BUPA Great Capital run around Regent's Park, and Memory Walk, all raising money and awareness for the charity.[15][16][17]

In November 2011, Langsford hosted a ladies lunch charity event in Manchester to raise money for The Christie & Francis House.[18]

Since 2012, Langsford along with Eamonn Holmes have been celebrity patrons of the Dogs Trust charity, after adopting their dog Maggie from the charity the previous year.[19]

In 2014, Langsford and Holmes, starred in a Dementia Friends TV advertisement campaign to raise awareness about the disease. The advert was shown throughout 2014.[20] She also supports Centra.[21]

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role Channel
1993–1994 The West at Work Presenter Westcountry Television
1994 Ruth Meets the Entertainers[22] Presenter
1997 The Really Useful Show Presenter BBC One
1999 The Answer Lies in the Soil Presenter History Channel
Gardens of the Millennium Presenter
Langsford Late Presenter Westcountry Television
1999–2002,
2009–2010, 2012— 		Loose Women[23][24][25] Panellist/anchor ITV
2000— This Morning[26] Co-presenter
2001 Taste of the West Presenter Carlton Westcountry
2004 Zoo Story Narrator
2010 GMTV with Lorraine Guest presenter ITV
Marco's Kitchen Burnout Contestant
2011 Born to Shine Contestant
2014 Gift Wrapped[27] Co-presenter
2015— Eamonn & Ruth: How The Other Half Lives[28][29] Co-presenter Channel 5
2017— Ruth Langsford's Fashion Edit Co-presenter QVC
2017 Strictly Come Dancing Contestant BBC One
Eamonn & Ruth's 7 Year Itch Co-presenter Channel 5
Guest appearances

References

  1. ^ "Official Ruth Langsford". Official Ruth Langsford. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  2. ^ Matthew Hancock (13 August 2011). "Jake Brown, Drummer, on ITV's Born To Shine". Retrieved 29 October 2017 – via YouTube.
  3. ^ "Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford host new show for ITV Daytime". Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  4. ^ "Ruth Langsford at QVC - QVCUK.com". Qvcuk.com. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Loose Women's Ruth Langsford is limbering up for Strictly!". Strictly Come Dancing. 9 August 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  6. ^ "Get the latest on the Tube strikes". News.bbc.co.uk. 7 September 2010. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  7. ^ "Official Ruth Langsford". Official Ruth Langsford. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  8. ^ "Interview with Tesco Real Food Judge and TV Presenter Ruth Langsford - Feeding Boys & a FireFighter". Feedingboys.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  9. ^ "Official Ruth Langsford". Officialruthlangsford.com. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  10. ^ a b Coleman, Maureen (26 June 2010). "Holmes and partner Ruth walk down aisle". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
  11. ^ "Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes Reveal Secret To Happy Marriage - Woman And Home". Woman and Home. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
  12. ^ "Official Ruth Langsford". Official Ruth Langsford. 21 April 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  13. ^ "Lucky Maggie Bags Herself A New Holme". Dogs Trust. 4 July 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  14. ^ "Ruth Langsford on getting involved with Alzheimer's Society Campaigners' Network". YouTube. 8 August 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  15. ^ "Sugahfix". Sugahfix. 1 September 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  16. ^ "Ruth Langsford steps out for Alzheimer's – Alzheimer's Society". Alzheimers.org.uk. 8 September 2008. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  17. ^ "Ruth Langsford – Alzheimer's Society". Alzheimers.org.uk. 15 March 2007. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
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  19. ^ "Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford become patrons of Dogs Trust". DogCast Radio. 17 December 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  20. ^ "New dementia campaign launches as research reveals the true cost to business of dementia". Gov.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  21. ^ [1] [dead link]
  22. ^ "Ruth Meets the Entertainers Part One (1994)". Bfi.org.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  23. ^ "Loose Women adds Ruth Langsford to regular panel, Myleene Klass to guest". Digital Spy. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  24. ^ "Ruth Langsford joins Loose Women". Hellomagazine.com. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
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  26. ^ "Ruth Langsford | Presenters & Experts | This Morning". Itv.com. 4 September 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  27. ^ "Gift Wrapped". Itv.com. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  28. ^ [2] [dead link]
  29. ^ "Channel 5 Orders Super-Rich Documentary Series Fronted By Eamonn Holmes & Ruth Langsford - TVWise". Tvwise.co.uk. 10 September 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  30. ^ "Bradley Walsh". Bradleywalsh.co.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  31. ^ "All Star Family Fortunes Episode 9". Itv.com. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
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  34. ^ "Official Ruth Langsford". Official Ruth Langsford. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
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  36. ^ "Celebrity Squares". Itv.com. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  37. ^ "Catchphrase Episode 6". Itv.com. Retrieved 29 October 2017.

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