Emma Crosby | |
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| Born | Emma Catherine Crosby 5 June 1977 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 British television newsreader and journalist.
Between 2003 and 2009, Crosby worked at Sky News, regularly co-presenting their breakfast programme Sunrise , along with various other programmes on the channel. In 2009, she joined ITV to co-present GMTV , which she hosted until the show was replaced by Daybreak the following year. She co-hosted GMTV with Andrew Castle or Ben Shephard two or three days a week in rotation with Kate Garraway. She joined Channel 5 in 2011, where she worked as their chief anchor on 5 News until 2015. She returned to Sky News in June 2017.
The only child of an English father who worked for Sainsbury's and a Scottish mother who worked for Marks & Spencer,[ citation needed ] Crosby was raised in Newbury, Berkshire. She studied drama, theatre, film and television at Leeds University, which included an internship at ITN, and undertook a postgraduate diploma in journalism at Cardiff 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 for News Direct 97.3 and LBC before joining the Money Channel in 1999. [1]
In 2001, she joined CNBC Europe and became a presenter on European Market Wrap . [1] She spent some time in the United States while with the network and reported for its early morning show Squawk Box , where her mentor was Maria Bartiromo. [2]
Crosby joined Sky News in 2003, presenting the early morning news programme Sunrise. [3] She also regularly co-presented the channel's weekday Sky News Today , and some weekend broadcasts. She won a BAFTA for coverage of the 2007 Glasgow Airport terrorist attack. [4] She subsequently was also the channel's business correspondent and, in October 2007, became a London correspondent on the Fox Business Network.
In January 2009, Crosby moved to the long-running breakfast programme GMTV , replacing presenter Fiona Phillips, who left the channel for family reasons after 16 years. [5] On 1 August 2010, it was announced that Crosby was leaving GMTV with the impending launch of Daybreak , which replaced GMTV. [6] During her time with the show, she had co-presented alongside Ben Shephard, John Stapleton, Kate Garraway and Andrew Castle. She and Castle presented the final edition of GMTV on Friday 3 September 2010.
In October 2010, Crosby confirmed that she would present on CNN, before returning to BBC 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 the BBC News at One and the afternoon schedule on the BBC News Channel when the BBC News schedule was disrupted due to a 48-hour National Union of Journalists strike. [9]
In February 2011, she was appointed a presenter of 5 News as a replacement for Natasha 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 of Matt Barbet on 26 July 2012. In 2012, she presented a travel report from Jordan on C5's travel series called Holiday Heaven on Earth. [11]
On 28 April 2014, Crosby began co-hosting a new programme called 5 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 station LBC, sitting in for Lisa Aziz. She also returned to Sky News on a freelance basis in June 2017.[ citation needed ]
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 in Cape Town, South Africa, which has views of Table Mountain. [1] Crosby is an ambassador for the charities SOS Villages, RSPCA and Kicks Count. [16]