Eamonn Holmes claims he inspired ‘devilishly handsome’ character in one of Dame Jilly Cooper’s novels

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00:00I first met her when I was about 20 years of age. She's so accessible, she made things so easy

00:05for you as a reporter, which she was herself, a writer, to be able to do that. But then she told

00:13me one day, and I never knew this to be true because I didn't read any of her books, but

00:18she said to me, I based my new hero, she actually got me along to a theatre where she was studying

00:24something one day, and she said, I've based my new hero on you. Now, this hero was either

00:31called Eamon or he was a TV presenter. Oh, she's got a few of those in her books, I think.

00:37Yeah, but anyway, so I feature in it in some way. Oh, right, well, you're going to have to

00:42start reading now. Maybe, let's just say, get up to dirty things. I think there is a bit

00:46of that, yeah. There might be. So I think you should get reading and find out what you've

00:50been up to in her books. You don't know. Don't know. She could have written anything.

00:53Be deviciously, deviciously handsome. Impossibly handsome. Impossibly handsome.

00:58Like the Queen said.