Eamonn Holmes has confessed he's enjoying his busy new role at GB News, following him leaving ITV's This Morning.
Ruth Langsford's husband, who has worked in television for more than 40 years, revealed he felt "wanted" and "appreciated" with the channel, while confessing he didn't miss doing daytime TV after doing it for so long.
Eamonn, 62, co-hosted the Friday instalment of This Morning for 15 years with wife Ruth, 61, before they were replaced on the ITV show by Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary last year.
Ruth and Eamonn were revealed to be hosting the show for six weeks over the summer instead, which they did in 2021 before Eamonn confirmed he was leaving the show.
He previously hosted GMTV on the channel too, and last year he exited the ITV family when he announced he was moving to GB News.
The telly favourite recently spoke out about this and took aim at the channel, calling them "sly" for "making it look as if he'd walked away".
While he didn't address this on Steph's Packed Lunch on Tuesday, he did talk about daytime TV in general and the move to breaking news coverage.
Eamonn has hosted news coverage before with Sky News, where he initially worked with his current GB News co-host Isabel Webster.
Asked if he missed doing daytime TV, after 15 years on This Morning, Eamonn confessed he didn't and revealed how much he was enjoying his new team.
He said: "Erm, no, not at all. I really am excited with the whole breaking news environment and being involved in that. I think the first six, seven weeks now of GB News, goodness me there's been a lot going on between Partygate and the Ukraine situation.
"It just is always happening, you don't really have time to stop and think about it."
Eamonn went on: "It's just a tremendous privilege Steph to be involved in something that you want to do.
"They say if you do something you love you never work a day in your life, and it's nice to be appreciated. It's nice to be with people who want you to be there. It's nice to feel that you are contributing."
It comes after he hit out at ITV over his departure, with ITV since responding to the claims.
Chatting with Daily Mail's Weekend magazine, Eamonn claimed his former channel made it appear that he wanted to walk away from ITV when he had in fact been "dropped".
"They're sly. They didn't want to announce that I'd been dropped because it would adversely affect audience figures, so they made it look as if I'd walked away from them rather than the other way round," the journalist sensationally revealed.
"They had a chat with my agent and announced that I was going to GB News when they'd done no more than ask if I'd be interested in joining them."
A spokesperson for ITV told the Mirror at the time: "This isn't a version of events that we recognise and as we have said before we wish Eamonn all of the very best."
Eamonn also addressed whether he would work with wife Ruth again in the future, following his ITV exit.
He said: "That's a very good question. We're open to it and we'd be open to it. Ruth's very busy with her designing range and QVC.
"She's got her other jobs on Loose Women. So we're very busy and me, GB News and doing breakfast like that does consume your day, and your sleep when other people are awake.
"so who knows? Who knows... but I think we'd be open to suggestions, yeah."
Steph's Packed Lunch airs weekdays at 12:30pm on Channel 4.
