‘Excited' Eamonn Holmes whisks lover away on luxury break to Greece amid ‘strained relationship with two of his sons'
It comes amid claims his relationship with two of his
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Eamonn Holmes and new partner Katie Alexander, 43, have jetted out to Greece on holiday
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The couple have flown out for a luxury holiday along with Katie's three grown-up children
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Eamonn, 65, was seen checking in at Heathrow on Friday with marriage counsellor
He forked out for the luxury trip to Greece — the setting for Homer's epic adventure Odyssey — also taking Katie's three grown-up
Yesterday, it was reported Eamonn has had a falling out with
It was claimed that Niall was unhappy about his father's behaviour and the circumstances of his dad's
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Jack, 23, his son with Ruth, is also understood to be upset about their marriage breakdown and has sided with his mother.
A source said: 'Things remain strained between him and his father.'
But there was no sign of worry as the
Sources have revealed to The Sun on Sunday Katie was disappointed that Eamonn pulled out of buying a £550,000 semi-detached house in her native West Yorkshire, where they could stay close to her family home.
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She had told friends she was planning to move in some personal belongings to the new home as they prepared for a
future
together.
A source told The Sun on Sunday: 'It was their first rocky patch but there's nothing a holiday can't fix.'
Fresh twist in Eamonn Holmes & Ruth Langsford's divorce as celeb pair battle over £3.6m home
The relationship wobble came after Katie avoided the
Television
and
Radio
Industries Club awards last month, when Eamonn picked up a gong.
She said she
Eamonn is still waiting to finalise his divorce from Loose Women host Ruth, 65.
He has been forking out about £6,000 a month renting a bachelor pad in Surrey after moving out of the marital home.
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Holmes, 65, split last year from TV presenter wife Ruth Langsford
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Eamonn and marriage counsellor Katie's relationship became public last year
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Eamonn Holmes and wife Ruth Langsford are in the process of finalising their divorce after their split
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Formed in Phoenix, Arizona, they released seven albums between 1969 and 1973 and School's Out, with its hit title track, was the fifth. We were a band from Phoenix that never should have made it, except that we had a spark that nobody else had. Alice on his band Among their other best-loved 'shock rock' creations were I'm Eighteen, Hello Hooray, Elected, No More Mr Nice Guy and Billion Dollar Babies. In 1974, the band split, amicably but exhausted, and the frontman began his enduring solo career with his Welcome To My Nightmare LP. Now the original line-up of Alice, Mike Bruce, Dennis Dunnaway and Neal Smith have reunited to make their first studio album together in more than 50 years. Titled The Revenge Of Alice Cooper, the album effortlessly summons the spirit of their Seventies heyday and incorporates a posthumous appearance by late guitarist Glen Buxton. Alice had met Glen and Dennis in 1963 at Cortez High School in Phoenix, after moving there from Detroit. 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'We had this little theatrical thing going and we also wanted to be America's Yardbirds,' he adds in reference to the British band that helped launch the careers of In 1968, the band changed their name from Nazz because it was taken by Todd Rundgren. During a brainstorming session, they tried to think of 'somebody's grandmother'. 'Who can think of a more grandmother name than Alice Cooper?' says the man who later legally morphed from Vincent Furnier into Alice Cooper. 'I said, 'It would throw everybody right off', and everybody agreed. 'We went through all these other names and we kept coming back to Alice Cooper — it just stuck.' At that time, Alice also began experimenting with face paint and developing the outlandish stage image (snakes and chickens included) that he's loved for. 'This girl came up to me and said, 'Have you ever seen this guy?' And she showed me a picture of Arthur Brown.' Brown, a Brit, is remembered for global hit Fire, for which he would don a burning helmet. Let's just say the music and performance were incendiary. Alice continues: 'We had the same make-up and I went, 'Are you kidding me?' I'd never heard of this guy but we were on the same wavelength. 'I realised I had a kindred brother in England. Arthur and I ended up as great, great friends.' He was brilliant, like the statue of David. Every girl in the world loved this guy — the tortured poet obsessed with death. Alice on Jim Morrison of The Doors He recalls early live forays in LA at Whisky A Go Go and The Cheetah Club, and thinking, until he saw them, that other acts on the bill, Pink Floyd and Then, in 1970, producer Bob Ezrin took things to the next level. Today, he's regarded as the unofficial sixth member of the band, a bit like 'fifth Beatle' George Martin. He was in charge of their breakthrough hit I'm Eighteen, giving some much-needed advice along the way. 'We kept trying to be The Yardbirds,' remembers Alice. 'And Bob kept saying, 'No, this song's about a dumb teenager, so it's got to sound like that'. 'And we were dumb teenagers, so it was pretty easy. We just dumbed it down and the simplicity was really powerful.' Now, the surviving members are all in their seventies, but you wouldn't know from the raw energy on their comeback album, The Revenge Of Alice Cooper. Anyone who has seen Alice live will probably have seen a menacing boa constrictor draped around his neck. The album begins with a song named after a snake of a different kind, Black Mamba. It features a free-flowing cameo from Robby Krieger of The Doors because, affirms Alice, 'Robby is the only guy who could have played that kind of snaky guitar part. He nailed it.' The mention of Krieger inevitably prompts one of his great rock 'n' roll tales. 'We opened for The Doors for a while,' Alice recalls. 'They were the first band to take us under their wing when we came in [to Los Angeles] from Phoenix. 'They allowed us to watch them record and we got to know them really well.' I ask Alice about The Doors' mercurial frontman Jim Morrison, who was found dead aged 27 in 1971 in a Paris apartment. The many-years-sober singer says: 'I was drinking so we got along real well. We just drank and talked and drank. 'He was brilliant, like the statue of David. Every girl in the world loved this guy — the tortured poet obsessed with death.' Alice got to witness 'Lizard King' Jim's incredible stage presence up close. 'Glen was our Keith Richards' 'He was electric, he was James Dean. He'd saunter up to the stage and take half a minute to light a cigarette. 'Then he'd sing and every girl would drop to their knees.' The new album also features a loving tribute to the Alice Cooper Band's dear departed guitarist, Glen Buxton. Called What A Syd, it brings this response from Alice: 'Glen was our 'Everybody loved him but the only person I ever saw him jam with was [Pink Floyd's] Syd Barrett. 'When everyone else was slowing down rock 'n' roll-wise with what they were doing to their bodies, he just kept going. 'There was no stopping him. By 49, he looked like he was 78, 80 years old.' Finally, we return to the mischief that both Alice and Ozzy became renowned for. 'There's a lot of humour on this album,' he says. 'I can't help it, that's just the way I write. 'Everybody's telling the most important song is Blood On The Sun. They say it's poetic, it flows, it makes your mind go, 'Oh my gosh!' 'What are they talking about? Every single line in that song is a movie title. It sounds important but it's not at all!' So that explains him singing 'Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder' (1982 war movie), 'From Dusk Till Dawn' (1996 horror film) and so on. Surely Alice's fellow eternal prankster Ozzy would approve! 7 The Alice Cooper Band had already nailed the outlandish look in 1970 7 Alice became good friends with The Doors star Jim Morrison, who died aged 27
