Eamonn Holmes criticises My Mum, Your Dad in a rant against former employee

On 11 September, ITV launched a new and innovative reality TV show: My Mum, Your Dad. The concept of the show is simple: a group of single parents have been nominated by their adult children for a ‘second chance at love.’ But, in a massive plot twist ‘their kids will be watching their every move from a nearby location.’

The show was welcomed by very positive reviews from both the press and the public. The Guardian gave the show four stars out of five and viewers praise the fact that there is finally a reality tv show in which the contestants aren’t lookin for fame.

Of course, where there is praise, there is criticism. Leading the critics of My Mum, Your Dad is Eamonn Holmes leaving us to wonder: why?

My Mum, Your Dad is innovative

ITV’s new show, presented by Davina McCall, is nothing if not a kind of revolution. Indeed, for once, the show welcomes contestants who are over the age of 25. The parents who are taking part in the show are all over 40 and are far from the typical reality TV type.

In The Guardian a reviewer writes:

the show manages to grasp other opportunities offered by the casting of reality contestants who have got a bit of reality under their belts.

This aspect is what viewers seemed to love when they discovered the show last night. Most of them took to X saying:

Read more: This Morning: Can the ITV show be saved? Fans believe the show is 'dying a slow death'

Eamonn Holmes vehement criticism

Though there seems to be a consensus about My Mum, Your Dad saying that it is a good thing to finally have a reality TV show where the contestants aren’t all young, beautiful and hungry for fame, Eamonn Holmes used his GB News platform to criticise the show.

Metro reports that Holmes recalled how ‘so embarrassed’ he was when his mum got pregnant at the age of 48. During the same segment, Holmes and guest Christopher Biggins, seemed to be confused at to what could be the point of the show.

Who would do such a thing? What will they think of next?

After criticising the show, the segment transitioned into a criticism of Eamonn Holmes’ former employee, ITV. In what the Mirror calls a ‘rant’, Holmes raged against his former employee.

ITV are the worst (...) they've got no other ideas!

Holmes left ITV in 2021 after working there for over a decade. Mirror reports that when Holmes reflected on his departure from ITV he said that it ‘stung’ adding:

When I parted ways with ITV last year and I saw newspaper reports suggesting my departure was down to me being 'too male, pale and stale'. The remarks hurt me a little, but they also ignited a fire in my belly. 'We'll see about that,' I thought to myself.

Do you think that Eamonn Holmes’ criticism of My Mum, Your Dad was about the show or about his complicated history with ITV?

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Sources:

The Guardian: My Mum, Your Dad review – Davina McCall’s ‘middle-aged Love Island’ is hilarious ... and excruciating

Mirror: Eamonn Holmes calls ITV 'the worst' and claims they are 'out of ideas' in scathing rant

Metro: Eamonn Holmes takes brutal swipe at Davina McCall’s ITV dating show My Mum, Your Dad