Even before the ITV programme had really started Ruth, 56, was heard lambasting Eamonn, 57, for chewing too loudly while eating.
“Ugh! Ugh! Stop that horrible noise! You know what you’re doing, you doing that to me on purpose now because you know about that thing in the paper today,” she was heard telling her co-star.
Eamonn gave her a cheeky smile as he said: “People at home – sorry for speaking with my mouth full…”
“Exactly! Stop doing that!” Ruth interrupted as she berated him. She continued: “Because you know we’ve talked on here before about how I’m very easily irritated by certain noises – like my husband breathing or eating noisily.”
“I was just eating!” Eamonn responded as he attempted to defend himself from his wife’s scathing critique.
It appeared that Eamonn’s annoying habit got a bit too much for Ruth and later on she actually gagged him with a piece of gaffer tape.
The move seemed to please Ruth greatly as Eamonn sat on the This Morning sofa silently just looking at her.
However, Eamonn was purposely chewing loudly so that the hosting duo could talk about a new study looking at Misphonia, which found certain sounds can generate an “excessive” emotional response from some people.
Scientists carried out brain scans on patients and discovered that sounds such as eating or breathing generate a big emotional response beyond just a simple dislike.
“It’s a condition!” Ruth told Eamonn, who responded: “You don’t need to tell me! I discovered it before they did!”
Ruth informed the audience: “It is a genuine brain abnormality. There’s something going on at the front of your brain.
“It says we experience increased heart rate or get sweaty when we’re confronted by those trigger sounds .”
Eamonn is not the first ITV Daytime presenter to get gagged by a co-host. Only last week Piers Morgan was left speechless when his Good Morning Britain colleague covered his mouth in some tape when they were at the National Television Awards.
This Morning airs weekdays on ITV at 10.30am.
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