Emma Catherine Crosby (born 5 June 1977) is a British television newsreader and journalist.
Emma Crosby | |
|---|---|
| Born | Emma Catherine Crosby 5 June 1977 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England |
| Occupation(s) | Newsreader, television presenter |
| Notable credit(s) | Sky News GMTV 5 News |
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.
Early life
editThe 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]
Broadcasting career
editAfter 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 is set to replace Belle Donati on Sky News, following the presenter's sacking for comparing Israel's campaign in Gaza to the Holocaust.
Personal life
editCrosby 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]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Goss, Alexandra (17 January 2010). "Fame & Fortune: Emma Crosby". The Times. London. Retrieved 5 November 2010.[dead link]
- ^ Sophie Morris (14 August 2006). "My Mentor: Emma Crosby on Maria Bartiromo". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 8 October 2006. Retrieved 17 January 2008.
- ^ CNBC Europe's Emma Crosby joins Sky News Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Sky Press Office, 8 May 2003
- ^ "Emma Crosby". London Speaker Bureau. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- ^ Fiona Phillips quits GMTV The Guardian, 29 August 2008
- ^ New ITV Breakfast show to be called Daybreak BBC News, 9 July 2010
- ^ Fulton, Rick (7 October 2010). "I don't blame Christine Bleakley for taking my job, says former GMTV host Emma Crosby". Daily Record. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
- ^ "Emma Crosby Joins BBC News Channel". News on News. 4 November 2010. Archived from the original on 8 November 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
- ^ "BBC News staff strike over pensions". BBC News. 5 November 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
- ^ "Emma Crosby to front Five news". BBC News. 1 February 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
- ^ "Holiday Heaven on Earth". Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
- ^ "Early starts are hard, bring on the botox!". Closer!. 13 April 2010. Archived from the original on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
- ^ "72 Hours in Cape Town with Kids".
- ^ "twitter".
- ^ "TV presenter Emma Crosby reveals late pregnancy terror that made her fear for her baby's life". Archived from the original on 9 January 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
- ^ "PerformingArtistes". Retrieved 28 April 2019.
External links
edit- Emma Crosby at IMDb