Presenter Eamonn Holmes has revealed that he and his wife Ruth Langsford were "basically thrown out" of a restaurant while filming scenes for their new TV show.
Channel 5's Eamonn & Ruth: How the Other Half Lives sees the couple exploring the lives of the rich and famous, but one trip to a fancy restaurant left something of a bad taste in the mouth.
"It was a very funny situation and I was served up the most pretentious thing," the This Morning and Sky News presenter explained. "It wasn't in normal circumstances and I had to guess what was in my mouth and I panicked a bit.
"What was in my mouth foamed up slightly and I spat it out. Anyway, we were basically thrown out because of that. It was haute cuisine and I don't know why I (spat it out)."
"They weren't very happy with us," added Langsford.
"But come on, I just wanted to stop and say 'Are you kidding here?'" said Holmes. "The amount was thousands of pounds for a melt-in-the-mouth thing and I really just thought 'Get over yourself'. How can you, in a real world, say that this is somehow worthwhile doing?"
However, Holmes says it was a real eye-opener to discover just how nice the people they met during the course of the series were.
"We genuinely thought we were embarking on a mission to meet a series of knobs. You just thought they would be flash, bling, stupid, undeserving - whatever. And just time after time after time, people just won us over with their charm and their respect and their dedication."
The series begins on Channel 5 on Thursday October 27 at 9pm.
