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| Born | Emma Katy Forbes 14 May 1965 Hammersmith, London, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Alma mater | Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts |
| Occupation(s) | Radio and television presenter |
| Years active | 1971–present |
| Spouse | Graham Clempson (m. 1987) |
| Parent(s) | Bryan Forbes Nanette Newman |
Emma Katy Forbes (born 14 May 1965 in Hammersmith, London) is an English radio and television presenter.
Forbes's parents are Nanette Newman and Bryan Forbes. [1] She attended Hurst Lodge School. [2]
Forbes presented the cooking slot on Going Live!, a position she won after bombarding the production office with ideas for 'makes'. [3] [4] She was then selected as co-presenter for the replacement BBC children's show Live & Kicking with Andi Peters from 1993 through to 1996 [5] and also presented ITV's teenage problem show Speakeasy.
From 1994 to 1996, Forbes hosted a Meridian Television revival of the panel show What's My Line? . (Her mother had been a regular panellist on the 1970s BBC version of the show.) She has voiced Mummy Hippo in the children's animated series, Peppa Pig . She also presented the Heart 106.2 breakfast show, alongside Jonathan Coleman, before she left to present on Capital 95.8. [6]
Forbes was the face of a long-running television advert campaign for Head & Shoulders shampoo in the mid-to-late 1990s. In 1996, she was voted number 64 in the FHM 100 Sexiest Women Poll, and has been represented by Storm Models. [7]
Alongside Mark Radcliffe, Forbes has co-hosted the Steve Wright show on BBC Radio 2. Also on BBC Radio 2 Forbes presented a Saturday show from 6 pm to 8 pm alongside comedian Alan Carr called Going Out with Alan Carr , and a Sunday morning breakfast show, replacing Pete Mitchell. [8] On 13 December 2009, she announced that she would no longer be presenting her Sunday show on BBC Radio 2, but she continued to co-present Going Out With Alan Carr on Saturday evenings until April 2010. From March 2011, Forbes was a regular discussion contributor on ITV's daytime show The Alan Titchmarsh Show , which ended in November 2014.
Forbes lives with her banker husband Graham Clempson (married September 1987) and has two children, born in 1996 and 1999.[ citation needed ] She suffered from postnatal depression after both births. [2] Forbes was Richard Attenborough's god-daughter. When she took a professional break to have her two children, Forbes and her journalist sister Sarah Standing started a shop in Belgravia, London. [9] [10] [11] Forbes is a party organiser. [12] Forbes is also a patron of Great Ormond Street Hospital. [13] She is a fan of Bolton Wanderers Football Club.
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