Emma Crosby | |
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| Born | Emma Catherine Crosby (1977-06-05)5 June 1977 (age 47) St Albans,Hertfordshire, England |
| Occupation(s) | Newsreader, television presenter |
| Notable credit(s) | Sky News GMTV 5 News |
Emma Catherine Crosby (born 5 June 1977) is a Britishtelevision newsreader andjournalist.
Between 2003 and 2009, Crosby worked atSky News, regularly co-presenting their breakfast programmeSunrise, along with various other programmes on the channel. In 2009, she joinedITV to co-presentGMTV, which she hosted until the show was replaced byDaybreak the following year. She co-hostedGMTV withAndrew Castle orBen Shephard two or three days a week in rotation withKate Garraway. She joinedChannel 5 in 2011, where she worked as their chief anchor on5 News until 2015. She returned to Sky News in June 2017.
The only child of an English father who worked forSainsbury's and a Scottish mother who worked forMarks & Spencer,[citation needed] Crosby was raised inNewbury, Berkshire. She studied drama, theatre, film and television atLeeds University, which included an internship atITN, and undertook a postgraduate diploma in journalism atCardiff University.[citation needed]
After graduation Crosby joined the BBC, becoming a producer on its rolling news channel,BBC News 24. Moving on from there, she worked forNews Direct 97.3 andLBC before joining the Money Channel in 1999.[1]
In 2001, she joinedCNBC Europe and became a presenter onEuropean Market Wrap.[1] She spent some time in the United States while with the network and reported for its early morning showSquawk Box, where her mentor wasMaria Bartiromo.[2]
Crosby joined Sky News in 2003, presenting the early morning news programmeSunrise.[3] She also regularly co-presented the channel's weekdaySky News Today, and some weekend broadcasts. She won a BAFTA for coverage of the 2007Glasgow Airport terrorist attack.[4] She subsequently was also the channel's business correspondent and, in October 2007, became a London correspondent on theFox Business Network.
In January 2009, Crosby moved to the long-running breakfast programmeGMTV, replacing presenterFiona Phillips, who left the channel for family reasons after 16 years.[5] On 1 August 2010, it was announced that Crosby was leavingGMTV with the impending launch ofDaybreak, which replacedGMTV.[6] During her time with the show, she had co-presented alongsideBen Shephard,John Stapleton,Kate Garraway andAndrew Castle. She and Castle presented the final edition ofGMTV on Friday 3 September 2010.
In October 2010, Crosby confirmed that she would present onCNN, before returning toBBC News.[7] She began presenting on the BBC News Channel's weekend evening slot on 23 October 2010, before moving on to afternoons the following week.[8] On 5 November 2010, she presented theBBC News at One and the afternoon schedule on the BBC News Channel when the BBC News schedule was disrupted due to a 48-hourNational Union of Journalists strike.[9]
In February 2011, she was appointed a presenter of5 News as a replacement forNatasha Kaplinsky,[10] covering the 18:30 edition (previously 19:00) from 14 February. At the time, she also presented the earlier 17:00 edition, following the departure ofMatt Barbet on 26 July 2012. In 2012, she presented a travel report fromJordan onC5's travel series called Holiday Heaven on Earth.[11]
On 28 April 2014, Crosby began co-hosting a new programme called5 News Tonight alongside 5 News returnee Matt Barbet[citation needed] and, on 5 November 2015, she announced she was leaving Channel 5 News to have a baby; her final show was on 6 November 2015.[citation needed]
As of 12 August 2016, Crosby is a stand-in breakfast newsreader (including the half hour programme,The Morning News at 06:30) on radio stationLBC, sitting in forLisa Aziz. She also returned to Sky News on a freelance basis in June 2017.[citation needed]
Crosby is set to replace Belle Donati on Sky News, following the presenter's sacking for comparing Israel's campaign in Gaza to the Holocaust and is also set to replaceIan King on the programmeBusiness Live with Ian King being rebranded asBusiness Live with Emma Crosby from spring 2025.
Crosby lives in South London.[1][12] She is married to London-based professional photographer Jeremy Peters and they have two children.[13][14] In February 2017, Crosby revealed that she feared she was losing her overdue baby (Mary) because it had not moved for four hours.[15] She also owns a two-bedroom flat inCape Town, South Africa, which has views ofTable Mountain.[1] Crosby is an ambassador for the charities SOS Villages, RSPCA and Kicks Count.[16]