Babita Sharma

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Babita Sharma
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Sharma in 2021
Born
Babita Sharma

April 1977 (age 46)
Reading, Berkshire, England
NationalityBritish
Education University of Wales (BA)
Occupation(s) Journalist, News presenter
Employer BBC
Notable credits
SpouseAdam Patterson
Children1
Website Babita Sharma on Twitter

Babita Sharma (born April 1977) [1] [2] is a British television newsreader who presented on the domestic BBC News Channel and BBC World News, presenting the Newsday strand each Monday to Wednesday from London with Rico Hizon in Singapore. Babita stopped presenting on BBC News during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. [3] [4]

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Early life and education

Sharma is of Indian descent [5] born in 1977 in Reading, Berkshire. She has two older sisters. She lived above a number of corner shops around Reading and Caversham owned by her mother Prem and her father Ved. [6] [7] [8]

She attended the University of Wales and graduated with a degree in journalism, Film and Broadcasting.

Career

After completing her education, Sharma began working with BBC Radio Wales and Thames Valley Television. [9] She moved to Dubai, [7] working on radio for Channel 4 FM and for Ajman TV where she presented a weekly music programme. She returned to the UK in 2003 and began her BBC career at BBC Radio Berkshire as a travel presenter and producer. She then moved to the newsroom in Southampton, reporting and producing for BBC South Today. In 2007 she moved on to BBC Spotlight Channel Islands working as a video journalist and regular presenter of the evening bulletin.

Sharma transferred to the BBC News Channel in 2008, initially as presenter of the Your Money programme. [10] In early 2009, she assumed the main business role and then moved to the BBC News Channel, BBC One and BBC World News in her current full-time presenting role. [9] For the BBC World News programme Newsday, which began airing from its new studios on 31 July 2015, Sharma has served as live anchor from the main Broadcasting Centre in London, while Rico Hizon was assigned the main broadcasting role from Singapore. [11] The "World Travel Market global trends report 2013", which was prepared for the World Travel Market and the Euromonitor International was the subject of a panel debate in which Sharma participated. She observed: "The global economy in 2013 has stabilized compared to 2012 with a 3.1% (gross-domestic-product) growth expected for the year. The International Monetary Fund predicts a further 3.8% increase during 2014". [12]

She appeared on series 3 episode 7 of "Celebrity Eggheads". [13] Presented series 1 & 2 of Supermarket Secrets with Gregg Wallace. [14]

Sharma also hosts various ceremonies, such as the Angel Film Awards at the Monaco International Film Festival from 2011 to 2013 [15] and the 2012 Wings of Hope Achievement Award ceremony. [16] She also moderates panel discussions [17] and speaks at conferences, such as the World Travel Market. [18] In 2017 made the three part series Dangerous Borders: A Journey across Indian & Pakistan for BBC2. [19] In December 2016 her documentary Booze, Beans & Bhajis: The Story of the Corner Shop was shown on the BBC4. [20]

Sharma co-hosted the Asian Curry Awards 2018 at the Grosvenor House in London on Sunday 18 November 2018.

In 2018, Sharma won the Asian Achievers Award for Achievement in Media, Arts & Culture [21]

Since 2022, Sharma has provided the voice over for the opening of Loose Women, introducing the Panellists at the start of each show.

Personal life

Sharma is married [22] to Adam Patterson. [23] [24] She gave birth to a daughter in May 2019. [25] They moved to Belfast in February 2022. [26] [27]

Publications

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  2. ↑ "Corner Shop Media Ltd in London, W1W 7LT".
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  7. 1 2 "BBC World News Presenter to Facilitate Panel Discussions at Wave and Tidal 2014". Renewable UK. 4 February 2014. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  8. ↑ Sharma, Babita. "Babita Sharma: pop to the corner shop to take the pulse of modern Britain". The Times . ISSN   0140-0460 . Retrieved 18 April 2022.
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  19. ↑ "The legacy of partition: an interview with Babita Sharma" . Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  20. ↑ "Booze, Beans & Bhajis: The Story of the Corner Shop" . Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  21. ↑ "Welcome to the most prestigious Asian awards". Asian Achievers Awards. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  22. ↑ "The Corner Shop" . Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  23. ↑ "The Fold Woman: Babita Sharma" . Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  24. ↑ Sharma, Babita [@BabitaTV] (11 June 2020). "Incredibly proud of my hubby #AdamPatterson & @DecLawn who wrote & exec produced #TheSalisburyPoisonings. A compelling, emotionally charged drama. On-air from Sunday 14/15/16 June 9pm @BBCOne https://t.co/Juu2DUOKsH" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 18 April 2022. Retrieved 4 December 2022– via Twitter.
  25. ↑ Sharma, Babita [@BabitaTV] (24 January 2022). "May 2020. We celebrated my daughter's first birthday in a lockdown on a zoom to elderly grandparents, extended family & friends because those were the rules. She won't remember it but we will. https://t.co/YhHvKvn8L0" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 4 May 2022. Retrieved 4 December 2022– via Twitter.
  26. ↑ "Babita Sharma on why corner shops are the best of British" . Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  27. ↑ Sharma, Babita [@BabitaTV] (14 February 2022). "And just like that. #MovingDay #BelfastReady https://t.co/Wj5OraIKSr" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 6 March 2022. Retrieved 4 December 2022– via Twitter.
  28. ↑ The Corner Shop: Shopkeepers, the Sharmas and the making of modern Britain. Two Roads. ASIN   1473673224.
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