GB News Breakfast presenter Eamonn Holmes, 65, admitted he would not want to live into his 90s after witnessing his mother's deterioration before she died at the age 92 in November 2022. He made the revelation during a discussion on the show about the fact that over 16,000 UK citizen were centenarians. Reacting to statistics which indicated if you made it to 90 you were more likely to live to see your century the veteran presenter confessed it is not something he aspires to.

"My mother died two years ago," he said as co-host Penny Smith looked on, "She was 92, I thought she was a bit older at times, but no, she was 92, and I can honestly say this, and I say this to anybody I would not want to live now to that age. To be as frail as she was and as dependent on people, which she hated," he said.

Eamonn announced his mother Josie's death on Instagram on November 18, 2022. The TV presenter shared a poignant photograph of his mother waving from her front door along with the caption: "My four amazing brothers and I said goodbye for the last time to our beautiful Mum Josie this afternoon.

"She's at last reunited with Daddy now. That is our only consolation. We loved and will miss her so much. Every time I visited her, she came to the door to bless me with holy water and wave goodbye. Now sadly it really is Goodbye Mummy x."

Despite his grief he was tragically forced to miss his her funeral due to his ongoing health issues. However, the former This Morning star revealed his mother had told him she "didn't want him there" because then it would be "all about him".

Instead he spoke at the service via a video link. Reflecting on it on the How To Be 60 podcast with Loose Women's Kaye Adams he said: "Well, at least it happened. But it was a terrible thing to ever have to contemplate that I wouldn't be at my own mother's funeral, that I wouldn't be lifting her coffin."

The broadcaster has faced serious mobility issues in recent years after back surgery left him largely confined to a wheelchair and he is desperate to get back on his feet.

Despite his wish not to beome dependent on others he recently confessed he now requires carers since the decline in his health and he continues to "battle on".

Speaking to the Sunday World, Eamonn heartbreakingly said: "I have to have carers now looking after me. Somebody dresses me in the morning, somebody undresses me at night, somebody gets my food for me.

"I have to be tested with spinal injections to see if it will take, and then grow some life back into my spine and legs. It's all very experimental. I'll know next week. I'd say this is the toughest stage of my life ever. And I just battle on."