Former Sky News veteran Colin Brazier has revealed what it was really like to work with Eamonn Holmes and Kay Burley when the cameras stopped rolling. On Wednesday, the 57-year-old broadcaster joined host JJ Anisobi on the Daily Expresso podcast, where he reflected on his expansive TV career. During the in-depth chat, Colin revealed what Kay Burley was like to work with in the newsroom, adding that they bonded following his late wife's breast cancer diagnosis.

He told us: "When my late wife was very ill, and there was a danger that some of the health care help that we were getting from Sky [would end, we bonded]. I'm forever grateful to Sky for all the help when I slacked off and the support [they gave] when she was dying. But she helped when the taps were turning off.

"Sometimes, we were able to use a brilliant private room towards the end, and Kay made that happen. There was no gain for her in doing that; she just wanted to help. She lost her mother to breast cancer, which is what took my wife, and I'll never forget that."

Colin also jumped to her defence following rumours that she wasn't the easiest to work with on set. He explained: "I will say that when Kay started in TV news in the late 80s, it was a very difficult world for women in this business.

"She was a trailblazer, she developed a tough skin, and you've got to bear that in mind." The long-standing news anchor retired from presenting back in February after 36 years at the helm.

But Holmes wasn't the only broadcaster he was heaping praise on; he also showed his respect for Eamonn Holmes after they both joined GB News at its inception in 2021.

Looking back on what it was like to work with the Irish presenter, he gushed: "There are people I really esteem in this business, and they're not always the obvious ones.

"So people like Eamonn Holmes, I just think he is a brilliant broadcaster because he's got that ability to ask really awkward questions in that David Frost way.

Revealing one of his most impressive journalistic skills, he added: "He does this, 'I'm going to smother you with love, but actually the dagger's going in the back' type thing."

It comes after the Brazier explained why he really quit Sky News for a job at GB News in 2021. He explained: "I'd been there for more than 20 years. I'd gone to Sky because it wasn't the BBC, it was to the right of the BBC. It felt more representative of British public opinion.

"Over those 20 plus years, I left in 2021... maybe it's changed in those intervening five years, but I doubt it. It had become, by the time I left, something which it wasn't in the beginning.

"It had become woke, it had become dogmatic, in my opinion. There were punctuation marks along that narrative story wokewards which I remember, and which I think some of the people who were loyal viewers of Sky News remember as well."