TV presenter Eamonn Holmes has shared his fear that at 60 he only has four years left to live, after his father died of a heart attack aged 64.

The host of This Morning was speaking on The Journey podcast with Pete Snodden when he spoke of his growing awareness of his mortality.

“My father [Leonard] was dead at 64. He died of a heart attack. That gives me four years,” he said.

He added that his wife and co-presenter Ruth Langsford urged him not to worry.

"Ruth says, ’Don’t talk like that’, but you do think like that," he said.

Belfast-born Holmes said he hadn’t yet managed to achieve everything he wanted to in his career, saying: "There’s projects that I crave and I’ve got interests in lots of things.

“I’m not a superhuman. But I have a ­positivity, a lust for life. I don’t feel that I want to slow up," he said.