Ruth Langsford: 'I've found peace after my split from Eammon!' — New memoir extracts and weekend coverage
In a weekend of exclusive features, ruth langsford breaks her silence on the emotional fallout from her split and the long road to rebuilding. The presenter shares candid reflections and extracts from her new memoir Feeling Fabulous, while the same weekend's print editions include a two-part weight-loss guide and a high-profile fashion cover story.
Ruth Langsford opens up: the memoir and the interview
In an interview published with a weekend magazine and set out in extracts across the weekend’s print editions, Ruth Langsford speaks for the first time about the depths of her devastation after her marriage ended. The interview carries a timestamp of 12: 12 GMT 20 Feb 2026 and was updated at 17: 22 GMT 20 Feb 2026. At 65 she becomes emotional during the conversation, describing how the end of the relationship left her feeling broken and how acceptance came in small, painful moments.
The moment she removed her platinum ring
The pieces describe how, a year after the split, she was still wearing her platinum wedding ring. Friends encouraged her to take it off; one night in May of the previous year they urged her to do it with them, and she complied, crying as she removed it. That act is framed as a turning point — a moment of acceptance where she recognised she was no longer married in practice and began to acknowledge that divorce was under way.
How the split happened and how it landed
The split is described as blindsiding her and is placed in the context of a long partnership: the man involved had been her partner for 27 years and her husband for 14. The break followed a separation announced in the recent past; she says that while the legal separation has been in place for almost two years it still feels very new to her, compressing time so that months feel like weeks. The narrative stresses that she believed she had a very happy marriage and that the change forced a confrontation with grief, identity and future plans.
Feeling Fabulous: what the memoir contains
Feeling Fabulous is presented as Ruth Langsford’s first book, a 200-page title that blends memoir and a midlife manifesto. The extracts portray a woman who decided to wait until she had something meaningful to say before writing, and who used her experiences to shape advice about feeling and looking your best in later life. The book covers practical habits and personal rituals and reads as a conversation that mixes career advice, family therapy insights and wardrobe tips.
Personal details she shares and how she rebuilt
The coverage notes several personal particulars: she is the mother of a son, Jack, who is now 23; she has cared for parents with dementia; and she has revealed, for the first time in print, that she lost her big sister Julia to suicide and has reflected on what that taught her about grief. The portrait of the author includes small domestic details — a curler in her fringe, an annoying bra that chafes, and a fondness for a strong G& T and excellent cake — alongside practical steps she took to rebuild, including working, mothering, cooking, travelling and gardening.
Weekend extras: weight-loss guide and fashion feature
Also appearing across the same weekend’s print content is an exclusive two-part guide to managing weight loss, presented as applicable with or without medication. The guide is produced by an Inspire columnist and a leading weight-management expert and includes practical strategies such as making the most of temporary suppression of food cravings and learning coping tools like urge surfing and emotional regulation. The extracts promote maintaining progress, handling setbacks and establishing lasting habits, and are billed as excerpts from a new book titled The Weight Loss Prescription.
On the fashion front, the weekend fashion issue stars rising actress Sophie Skelton, who has spent the past decade travelling between centuries in the smash-hit series Outlander. The feature positions Skelton as a fashion lead and notes that Outlander has been watched by over 30 million viewers. She pays tribute to her on-screen family as they approach their final season next month and shares style secrets in the magazine’s fashion coverage.
What this coverage means and what to expect next
The weekend’s package presents a coordinated set of exclusive extracts and features designed to combine personal revelation with practical lifestyle content. For readers following Ruth Langsford’s story, the memoir extracts offer a close view of grief, recovery and reinvention; for those interested in wellbeing and fashion, the weight-loss guide and the fashion feature provide actionable advice and cultural context. Details such as where each piece appears are framed as weekend exclusives in the print editions, and further developments may follow as the full memoir and related features reach wider distribution.
