RING RIDDLE Eamonn Holmes’ girlfriend Katie Alexander sparks engagement rumours as she’s pictured wearing huge sparkling ring

EAMONN Holmes’s girlfriend sparked wedding rumours after she was seen sporting a shiny new ring on her engagement finger.

Beaming Katie Alexander was seen running errands near the TV star’s home showing off the sparkler.

The wrap-around gold and silver ring dazzled in the bright sunshine and was matched only by the marriage counsellor’s blinding smile.

A source said: “Katie looked radiant and like the cat that got the cream.”

She leaves her home in Huddersfield, West Yorks, to drive to Eamonn’s luxury pad in Kingston, South West London, virtually every weekend.

And it was no different as she made the 4.5 hour trek last Thursday to snuggle up the presenter in the bolthole on a luxury private estate near leafy Richmond Park.

The wrap-around gold and silver ring dazzled in the bright sunshine and was matched only by the marriage counsellor’s blinding smile.

A source said: “Katie looked radiant and like the cat that got the cream.”

She leaves her home in Huddersfield, West Yorks, to drive to Eamonn’s luxury pad in Kingston, South West London, virtually every weekend.

And it was no different as she made the 4.5 hour trek last Thursday to snuggle up the presenter in the bolthole on a luxury private estate near leafy Richmond Park.

The Sun has told how Katie has lifted the ailing 64-year-old TV star’s spirits at his £2m bachelor pad.

And the 42-year-old, who has a history of dating older men, has excitedly shared with friends that she and Eamonn are “planning a future together”.

The TV favourite moved out of his and Ruth Langsford’s marital home after his devastated wife discovered messages between him and another mystery woman.

Katie has excitedly disclosed their previous ‘close friendship’ has “gone up several notches”, sources said.

We previously revealed how Eamonn had become intimate with the counsellor specialising in ‘affair and betrayals’ months before his marriage split.

In the last year he grew close with Katie behind the back of his devastated wife and co-presenter legend Ruth.

Eamonn, beset by mobility issues, has showered Katie with gifts and trips and befriended her kids as their close relationship developed further.

The breakfast host treated Katie and her family to a Woburn Safari Park trip in Bedford in February – even sharing snaps on social media of their outing.

Eamonn did not publicly reveal that he was on a day trip with his new companion.

Katie’s head was just visible in the back of a jeep which he posed in front of – with unsuspecting fans having no idea of the blossoming romance behind Ruth’s back.

Eamonn has splashed the cash to keep Katie sweet as his marriage crumbled.

He treated her and her two youngest kids to a stay at Center Parks last year.

Eamonn also spoiled Katie and her daughter with tickets to a Beyonce gig last year as he cemented his closeness to the £45-an-hour therapist.

Die-hard Manchester United fan Eamonn gave Katie and her kids his tickets to a Prem game at Old Trafford last season.

And in a further hammer blow to his now estranged wife Ruth, on multiple occasions Katie left her northern home to stay at the four-star Brooklands Hotel in Weybridge, Surrey – just a 10 minutes’ drive from Eamonn’s marital home.

Katie was spotted at the sprawling spa destination – next to Mercedes Benz World and a motor racing track – in March and was described as a “frequent visitor”.

The counsellor told her pals she had enjoyed a ‘wonderful weekend’.

Katie has also been seen on multiple trips to Belfast in Eamonn’s beloved Northern Ireland.

Also last October, the TV star attended a small fundraising event in Yorkshire mental health counselling charity Platform 1 – agreeing to become a patron. It was just minutes from Katie’s home.

The charity – a nine-hour round trip from Eamonn’s home – is where his new therapist confidant worked for up to two years.

Eamonn beamed in a snap with staff afterwards at her local restaurant, Arthur’s.

He happily posted the picture online, but again fans had no idea of the poignancy behind the image.

Divorcee mother of three Katie met Eamonn via Twitter after she commented on a post and it sparked a conversation in 2015.

Pals say that Katie’s counselling specialities – including ‘affairs and betrayals’, ‘feeling sad’, and ‘separation and divorce’ – are a “bitter irony and a kick in the teeth for Ruth”.

We exclusively told how Eamonn and Ruth split and are to divorce, with the couple sharing a statement with us which shocked the showbiz world.

And we revealed Eamonn had already moved out of the couple’s home – after Ruth discovered messages on a laptop.

Cracks had started to appear in the popular duo’s relationship and they had not been pH๏τographed out together for two years.

But Ruth had stuck around to help Eamonn during his medical crisis.

The anchor has had a double hip replacement in 2016.

He had back surgery last year but it left him using a wheelchair.

And in January he broke his shoulder in a fall.

Ruth, 64, confided to her closest friends that there was “no way back” for the marriage.

She and twice married Eamonn first met in 1997 and in 2002 she gave birth to their son, Jack.

They won millions of fans presenting ITV’s This Morning together between 2006 and 2021.

He has lately been starring on the breakfast show on GB News.

Eamonn has three children from his first marriage.