WATCH: Eamonn Holmes reveals which job made him cry in his early career

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GB News presenter Eamonn Holmes has opened up on the job that made him cry, as he recalled an "awful" interaction with a former boss.Reacting to a new poll, which revealed more than half of British workers have cried at their place of work, Eamonn admitted he was once reduced to tears by his manager.FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00make you cry. Crystal, this is a story in the mail today. More than half of people have cried.

00:07Don't, don't.

00:08This is after the Rachel Reeves situation.

00:11Don't, Eamon, I feel very attacked. I feel very, I'm having a personal problem, Eamon.

00:14Yes, this is Rachel Reeves.

00:16Get him off.

00:16And basically, a survey has come out today saying actually about half of workers, more

00:23than half, admit they have cried at work at least once.

00:28And, of course, she very famously said it was a personal issue.

00:31Let's just do a quick poll round here. Have you cried at work?

00:34Once, when I was much younger and I left the room, because it's unprofessional the way that

00:38she cried in public, outrageous, I think.

00:40OK, Miriam?

00:42Not that I can remember, and not in public, certainly.

00:44Not in public, no, not at work.

00:46Well, I cried at work. I was 22 years of age. And my sports editor called me in and he said

00:51to me, what's wrong with that script? And I read it. I remember what the script was about.

00:56It was about darts or whatever. And I went, I don't know. I don't know.

01:01And the next minute, he fired a ceramic cup like that, bang, against the wall behind me

01:06and it smashed.

01:07No!

01:07And I went, I went like this. He said, I'll ask you again, what's wrong with that?

01:11And I went, I don't know.

01:14And he then lifted up a telephone, which had a wire on the end of it, and he fired it

01:21and it hit the wall behind me, right? Now I'm beginning to feel my top lip shudder and

01:26I'm going, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry here. And then he said, what is wrong with

01:30that script? And I said, I can't see, there's nothing wrong, I can't see anything wrong with

01:35it. And he lifted his Adler typewriter, metal Adler typewriter, and threw it down at my

01:42feet, which I had to jump for.

01:44And I then started to cry. And I thought, I was 22 years of age, I thought, this is awful.

01:50But as I ran down, my protector in the building, a big producer, a very tall man, Rory Fitzpatrick,

01:57said, young Holmes, what's wrong with you? And I basically told him, he just went up

02:03and he went up into the office of where this guy was. And this guy was a very big sports

02:09guy, you know, very big, big guy. And, and he punched him, which was great.

02:14But what was wrong with the script?

02:16Yeah, what was wrong with the script?

02:17We found out it was about Chucky Wilson, the dark player. I don't, I have no idea what was

02:22wrong. To this day, I don't know what was, what was wrong with it.

02:25If we weren't going to find out, Miriam was about to throw her laptop, if we weren't

02:28going to find out.

02:29I was just about to offer a tissue and see what was wrong with the script.

02:32I think HR policy has changed a little bit.

02:34Isn't it interesting, by the way, the two, the two butch men on the panel, so to speak,

02:39are the ones that have cried at work. And the, the, the two ladies on the panel have

02:43not.

02:43Well, maybe you get treated more harshly than women. I don't know.

02:46Oh, that's a, that's a nice get out.

02:47There you go.

02:48I'll take that.

02:49I've saved your ego.

02:50Yeah, thank you.

02:51But I do laugh at how he got punched.

02:54He was a big guy and the, and this guy just punched him.

02:58Things were often resolved for, I used to work at all.

03:01With a punch, isn't it?

03:02With punch, people being punched.

03:04It's called a Glasgow kiss for a reason.

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