Breakfast queen Fiona Phillips paid less than Eamonn Holmes

FIONA PHILLIPS has said she was paid less than her GMTV co-host Eamonn Holmes – despite being dubbed the “queen of breakfast TV”.

The former breakfast show anchor said that she was “a relative pauper in relation to my on-screen king Eamonn Holmes”.

Phillips, 57, added: “Monetarily, I was well adrift of my on-screen partner who also had ‘perks’ that I clearly wasn’t deemed worthy of.”

The mother-of-two also said that her pregnancy was deemed a “nuisance” and “an inconvenience” by TV bosses.

Last year, Holmes was named the best breakfast show host of all time.