Anthea Turner, 59, leaves This Morning viewers in awe of her youthful looks as cheeky Eamonn Holmes makes playful jibes about her turning 60
Anthea Turner left This Morning viewers in awe of her youthful looks during a live television appearance on Friday.
The TV personality, 59, featured on the ITV1 daytime show to discuss her upcoming appearance on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, and dazzled fans when she dialled in on video call from her south London home.
The former Blue Peter host was on the receiving end of a few playful jibes from This Morning host Eamonn Holmes, 60, who described her as ‘geriatric’ ahead of her 60th birthday next month.
Gorgeous: Anthea Turner left This Morning viewers in awe of her youthful looks during a live television appearance on Friday
Anthea is the oldest person to ever take part on Channel 4 show, which is returning to TV screens on Monday.
Eamonn jokingly told viewers: ‘She might look good but she’s old, she turns 60 this year.’
He told his former ‘TV wife’ that they were in the same ‘age bracket’ and referred to her as ‘decrepit’ and ‘geriatric’.
Cheeky: The former Blue Peter host was on the receiving end of a few playful jibes from This Morning host Eamonn Holmes, 60, who described her as ‘geriatric’
Despite the playful digs, the presenter assured viewers he was only trying to get across how well she looked and that he could not believed she agreed to do the show.
Fan were left taken aback by her youthful glow with one tweeting: ‘Fair play to Anthea Turner. She looks amazing for 59 #ThisMorning.’
Another added: ‘OMG #antheaturner looks amazing on this morning. What’s her secret?’
Beauty: The TV personality, 59, featured on the ITV1 daytime show to discuss her upcoming appearance on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins
Wow! Anthea dazzled fans when she dialled in on video call from her south London home
One fan shared: ‘Anthea Turner is turning 60 soon. And I can’t quite compute that.’
Another penned: ‘Anthea Turner is 59 ..wow looks amazing #ThisMorning’
Anthea and Eamonn co-hosted ITV1 breakfast show GMTV from 1994 to 1996 but their relationship was famously frosty.
Praise: Fans were left in awe of the television personality’s youthful looks as she prepares to turn 60 next month
It was reported at the time that he had given his bosses an ultimatum – either they sack Anthea, a former Blue Peter presenter, or he would leave.
Following her departure, Anthea went on to front various television programmes, as well as appearing on reality shows including Celebrity Big Brother and Hell’s Kitchen.
Eamonn, meanwhile, continued to present the show until 2005 alongside Fiona Phillips before his wife Ruth Langsford joined him on the sofa for This Morning.
Looking back: Anthea and Eamonn co-hosted ITV breakfast show GMTV from 1994 to 1996 but their relationship was famously frosty