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Inside Eamonn Holmes’ debilitating health battles – from pain that caused him to ‘lose his thirties’ to bladder and bowel issues and using a mobility scooter

Eamonn Holmes has had a painful few years health wise, from multiple surgeries to chronic pain to a horrific fall down the stairs.

From numerous operations to a fall down the stairs, the former This Morning presenter, who is on The Chase Celebrity Special this weekend (March 2), has had some seriously bad luck. He said he regretted waiting so long to have the operation, instead “losing my thirties, when I should have been playing with my young children, to intense pain; ditto my forties, when I gained weight, unable to exercise and move as I should have.” However, things told a nasty turn when poor Eamonn suffered a fall down the stairs while convalescing in his Surrey home, meaning more time away from our screens to recover.

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