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WATCH: Eamonn Holmes reveals which job made him cry in his early career
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Jul 9, 2025
GB News presenter Eamonn Holmes has opened up on the job that made him cry, as he recalled an "awful" interaction with a former boss.Reacting to a new poll, which revealed more than half of British workers have cried at their place of work, Eamonn admitted he was once reduced to tears by his manager.FULL STORY HERE.
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make you cry. Crystal, this is a story in the mail today. More than half of people have
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cried. This is after the Rachel Reeves situation. Eamon, I feel very attacked. I'm having a personal problem, Eamon. Yes, this is Rachel
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Reeves. And basically, a survey has come out today saying actually, about half of workers
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more than half admit they have cried at work at least once
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And, of course, she very famously said... Let's just do a quick poll round here. Have you cried at work
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Once, when I was much younger and I left the room, because it's unprofessional the way that she cried in public
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outrageous, I think. OK, Miriam? Not that I can remember, and not in public, certainly
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Not in public, no, not at work. Well, I cried at work. I was 22 years of age
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And my sports editor called me and he said to me, what's wrong with that script
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And I read it. I remember what the script was about. It was about darts and whatever. And I went, I don't know
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I don't know. And the next minute he fired a ceramic cup like that
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bang, against the wall behind me and it smashed. And I went, I went like this
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He said, I'll ask you again, what's wrong with that? And I went, I don't know
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And he then lifted up a telephone, which had a wire on the end of it
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and he fired it and it hit the wall behind me, right? Now I'm beginning to feel my top lift shudder
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and I going don cry don cry don cry here And he said what is wrong with that script And I said I can see there nothing wrong I can see anything wrong with it And he lifted his Adler typewriter metal Adler typewriter
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and threw it down at my feet, which I had to jump for. And I then started to cry and I thought, I was 22 years of age
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I thought, this is awful. But as I ran down, my protector in the building
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a big producer, a very tall man, Rory Fitzpatrick, said, young Holmes, what's wrong with you
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And I basically told him. He just went up and he went up into the office of where this guy was
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And this guy was a very big sports guy, you know, a very big guy
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And he punched him, which was great. But what was wrong with the script
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Yeah, what was wrong with the script? We never found out it was about Jackie Wilson, the dance player
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I have no idea what was wrong. To this day, I don't know what was wrong with it
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If we weren't going to find out, Miriam was about to throw her laptop. I was just about to offer a tissue and see what was wrong with the script
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The HR policy has changed a little bit. Isn't it interesting, by the way, the two butch men on the panel
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so to speak, are the ones that have cried at work and the two ladies on the panel have not
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Or maybe you get treated more harshly than women, I don't know. Oh, that's a nice get-out
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There you go. I'll take that. I've saved your ego. Yeah, thank you. But I do laugh at how he got punched
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He was a big guy and this guy just punched him. Things were often resolved where I used to work at
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With punch, people being punched. It's called a Glasgow kiss for a reason
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