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Eamonn Holmes opens up on the job he thought was 'horrendous' - 'I hated it!'
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Jul 8, 2025
GB News host Eamonn Holmes has revealed the one job he thought he would "always do" despite wanting to be a journalist from a young age.Opening up on his childhood career aspirations, the Breakfast anchor told cohost Miriam Cates that "no one believed in him" and his desire to be a journalist.FULL STORY HERE.
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Now, Aidan, I was just looking there
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that headline that we're doing about youngsters don't know what they want to do
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they don't feel ready for work after school or whatever, I'd have to say no-one prepared me for work
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And, you know, I don't think it was a good thing. I do think I would love to have, you know
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somebody guided me in the right direction or whatever. But the thing is, I always wanted to be a journalist
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but nobody believed in me. People would go, you want to be a journalist
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Yeah, but anyway, what do you really want to do? Well, there's a few points I'd say on that, because I go into schools now and talk about careers
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And I'd say the biggest assets any kid can have, irrespective of their attainment level at school
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how they're thought of by their peers and their teachers, is knowing what you want to do
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I knew what I wanted to do from the age of nine years old. October 11th, 1996
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See him on me. But not everybody is going to know that, are they? No, not at all
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But it's a huge asset. But I think their teachers have a responsibility. If they see a child have an aptitude in one direction..
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Encourage it. direction, try and encourage that as much as possible. I knew a kid in my class who was interested in farming
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We lived in Gillingham. Our farm must have been 20 miles. But I suppose it's difficult to kind of push him in a different direction
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I'm not sure what he ended up doing. But, you know, I just think if you know what you're doing, if you know what you want to do or have an idea, an interest
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you should be pushed that way. But even if you don't know what you want to do, I think there's real value in just getting any work experience at all
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whether it's a Saturday job in a shop, a paper round. It teaches you so much
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But I think now the problem is we've raised the school leaving age to 18. We put in all these regulations about national insurance and health and safety And lots of employers just don want to take on a 15 or a 16 It too risky and so there just isn the experience out there for kids to just have a go
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I worked for my parents, so it wasn't a real job. I was treated a little bit differently
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Did they pay you well? No, £3.50 an hour. My dad was the only bloke who increased wages when the minimum wage came in in 1997
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I always thought I was going to be a barman, really, realistically. I mean, that's what I worked out for when I was 16
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and I enjoyed it. I liked it very, very much. But, you know, I wanted to be, you know
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my mother just told me to go out and get a job. I said, I want to go to journalism college
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She said, you get out and get a job, you'll bring a wage into the house. And I went out and I worked for Primark
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Did you? Primark, yeah. And I was a trainee manager there. And I hated it
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Did you? It was horrendous. It was good because it taught me that I so don't want to do that
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And retail was so hard. And at the end of the year, Basically, I said goodbye to Primark
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I said to everybody else, you can all do what you want. I'm going to journalism college
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I'll work in the bar. I'll bring you money in from the bar. That's what we're doing
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End off. And that's what I did. And maybe it made me more determined
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Well, I worked in a cocktail bar and this woman came in. Were you working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
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No, I wasn't. I was trying to be a barman. But anyway, this woman came in and ordered a margarita
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I'd never heard of a margarita cocktail. I thought she meant a pizza. I said, we don't serve food. I said we don't serve food till six o'clock
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Well, we look forward to whatever it is you want it to be. Hopefully it happens for you one day
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That'll be good
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