GB News' Eamonn Holmes riled TV bosses up so much they 'threw a phone at him'

Eamonn Holmes admitted to having various objects thrown at him after angering TV bosses. The presenter, 65, hosted the GB News breakfast show on Monday (February 24) with Ellie Costello.

During the programme, the duo were joined by former editor of the Daily Star, Dawn Neesom, and TV personality Christopher Biggins, who discussed the latest bullying allegations involving Meghan Markle.

Dawn mentioned the allegations of Meghan bullying TV production staff in America, prompting Eamonn to reflect on his early days working on a TV set.

"I'm looking at you and I'm smiling," Eamonn began as he turned to Dawn. "You and I would have been brought up in similar working environments."

He continued: "What we were used to, and I'm not saying subjected to because everybody got it, there were loud voices, there was threatening behaviour."

The former This Morning presenter revealed that things even turned physical as he continued: "I had telephones thrown at me, cups thrown at me."

Eamonn revealed he even had a typewriter thrown at his feet after there were issues found within a script he had written. The Northern Irish broadcaster confirmed this was done by angered TV bosses, sparking a stunned response from Ellie.

"Wow," she simply replied as Dawn chimed in: "And the same with newspapers. Most of the bosses I worked for were basically psychopaths," before clarifying: "In a nice way, obviously."

Eamonn explained that he doesn't feel "wounded or harmed" by it, adding: "But what I do realise is that you can never replicate. You can never, in any way, say to anyone, 'What the heck are you doing?' Because you're aggressive."

He added: "I don't see it as aggressive but you need to point out to people when they're doing things wrong. So I don't know how, in this day in age, you actually get people back on the right track."

Dawn agreed: "It's a fine line between being driven and getting people to do things well and bullying people."

The conversation came after Dawn said "there's no smoke without fire" regarding the repeated bullying allegations surrounding the Duchess of Sussex.

Jason Knauf, former senior aide to the Sussexes, accused Meghan of bullying staff "out of the royal household" in an email sent in 2018. Knauf has now appeared in a new documentary for 60 Minutes Australia, Where There's A Will, admitting he has "no regrets" about bringing the allegations to light.

When asked if it was tough to have the spotlight on him following the leak of his emails about Meghan's alleged behaviour, he said: "I wouldn't change anything".

Meghan, 43, has vehemently denied the allegations of bullying, which she described as an orchestrated smear campaign against her.