Emily Maitlis

Journalist

Emily Maitlis was born in Canada on September 6th, 1970 and is the Journalist. At the age of 53, Emily Maitlis biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
September 6, 1970
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Canada
Age
53 years old
Zodiac Sign
Virgo
Profession
Journalist, News Presenter
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Emily Maitlis Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 53 years old, Emily Maitlis has this physical status:

Height
170cm
Weight
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Hair Color
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Emily Maitlis Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
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Hobbies
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Education
Queens' College, Cambridge (BA)
Emily Maitlis Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Mark Gwynne ​(m. 2001)​
Children
2
Dating / Affair
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Emily Maitlis Life

Emily Maitlis (born 6 September 1970) is a British-Canadian journalist, documentary maker, and BBC newsreader.

She is the presenter of BBC Two's news and current affairs show Newsnight, as well as covering elections for the BBC in the United Kingdom, United States, and Europe.

When she briefly replaced Allegra Stratton, who took maternity leave later this year, and launched an all-female line-up in January 2014, she became Newsnight's acting political editor.

Early life and education

Maitlis was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, to British Jewish parents; her paternal grandmother was a Jewish immigrant who fled Nazi Germany. She is the niece of Professor Peter Maitlis FRS, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield, and Marion Maitlis, a psychotherapist.

She was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. She was educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and then studied English at Queens' College, Cambridge. She was the only Newsnight presenter not to have attended a private school as of 2019.

Personal life

Maitlis' marriage to investment manager Mark Gwynne, a Catholic, whom she encountered while working in Hong Kong. When she was on vacation in Mauritius in 2000, she proposed to her husband. Milo and Max, two brothers, live in London and have two sons. Maitlis is a keen runner and a WellChild Celebrity Ambassador. She speaks fluent French, Spanish, and Italian, as well as some Mandarin.

At Guildhall, London, Maitlis spoke at the 2012 World Jewish Relief Annual Dinner. Her family is Jewish, though she has said that they are "not very practising."

During 2002, it was revealed that Maitlis had been stalked for more than a decade by Edward Vines, a former platonic friend from her time at university who would appear at her place of work. He admitted to harraging Maitlis and was sentenced to four months in jail, but was released early because of the time he had been detained on remand. A restraining order was served. Vines was sentenced to three years in prison for violating the restraining order in the case of Maitlis in September. Vines was sentenced to three years and nine months in January 2018 for breaching a restraining order, which barred him from contacting Maitlis. In 2015, he denied two charges of breaching the restraining order by sending two letters to Maitlis, as well as emails and letters to her mother. In September 2019, as a prisoner at HM Prison Ranby in Nottinghamshire, he pleaded not guilty to breaching an order restraining him from contacting Maitlis by writing a letter with the intention of having it delivered to her. In February 2020, he was sentenced to another three years in prison, which resulted in his being banned from serving in February 2020. Vines was found guilty of trying to breach a restraining order by writing letters to Maitlis and her mother while jailed, for which he was later received an 8-year prison term.

Maitlis likened the long-term stress to a chronic illness in a BBC Radio 5 Live interview.

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Emily Maitlis Career

Career

Maitlis had intended to work as a writer prompted by her passion for drama, but instead she moved into radio broadcasting. She was a documentary maker in Cambodia and China before beginning to work in news. She worked with NBC Network and was based in Hong Kong.

She spent six years in Hong Kong with TVB News and NBC Asia, first as a business reporter producing documentaries and then as a host in Hong Kong reporting the demise of the tiger economies in 1997. Jon Snow of Channel 4 also covered the devolution of power over Hong Kong. When the service was relaunched in 2001, she moved to Sky News in the United Kingdom as a business reporter and then to BBC London News.

Maitlis appeared on the game show The National Lottery: Come and Have A Go. Between 2006 and 2016, she appeared on BBC News Channel as a regular host, alongside Ben Brown and Jon Sopel. She appeared on BBC Breakfast from May 2006 to July 2007, a light-hearted look at the week's news from up-beat music.

Maitlis was appointed as a contributing editor to The Spectator magazine in July 2007, an unpaid position. This had been approved by her immediate boss, Peter Horrocks, but his decision was later reversed by his superior, BBC News director Helen Boaden.

When incumbent US President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were fighting for the presidency of the United States, Maitlis provided the US 2012 election coverage on BBC One and the BBC News Channel with David Dimbleby in 2012. In 2016, she hosted This Week's World on BBC Two in late afternoon, just over a decade ago.

Maitlis, alongside Kirsty Wark and Emma Barnett, was a principal presenter of Newsnight on BBC Two. She first appeared on the program in 2006 as a relief presenter, and since then she has been working her way up to become the program's lead anchor after Evan Davis' departure in 2018. She answered emails from viewers after each show before bed. In April 2019, she published Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News, a book that explains how television news is produced.

Maitlis interviewed Prince Andrew, Duke of York, about his relationship with American sex offender and paedophil Jeffrey Epstein, who died in August while awaiting a child trafficking conviction. On the 16th of November 2019, the interview was broadcast on the BBC's Newsnight programme. He resigned from his royal duties as a result of Prince Andrew's performance in this interview. Maitlis was featured in this interview with the award-winning Interview with Prince Andrew at the 2019 RTS Television Journalism Awards, and her interview with Prince Andrew was reportedly based on a scripted drama with Blueprint Pictures of this interview.

Maitlis was one of the highest-paid BBC news and current affairs professionals in 2019, earning a salary ranged from £260,000-£264,999. "Are you still paying?" proclaimed Maitlis' salary and that of Gary Lineker in July 2020.

Maitlis' North America editor, Jon Sopel, began hosting a BBC podcast named Americast in 2020. The podcasts were initially devoted to the 2020 election and contained research as well as a collection of interviews from around the country. Americast received glowing feedback and became one of the UK's most listened to podcast of any kind.

Maitlis resigned from the BBC after signing with LBC's parent company, Global, to debut a daily podcast and joint radio show together with ex-BBC journalist Jon Sopel on February 22, 2022.

Maitlis advised journalists about self-censorship in the guise of being reluctant to face populist protesters in an address at the 2022 Edinburgh TV Festival.

The News Agents, a daily broadcast from Global Media hosted by Maitlis, Jon Sopel, and Lewis Goodall, was published on August 30th, 2022. With Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House Director of Communications, as a visitor, the first edition, titled Trump – Prisoner or President?

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Ex-BBC Newsnight producer Sam McAlister admits to 'feeling sorry' for 'friendly and delightful' Princess Beatrice during Newsnight interview negotiations

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 18, 2024
The ex-BBC Newsnight producer who organised the infamous Prince Andrew (inset) interview claimed she felt sorry for Princess Beatrice.(inset) Sam McAlister (left) spoke to Robert Hardman and Natasha Livingstone on The Crown: Fact or Fiction podcast to speak about the story behind the infamous Newsnight interview and the Netflix film Scoop (right) that followed. The Duke of York brought his eldest daughter to negotiations with the BBC team behind the interview, journalist Emily Maitlis and producer Sam.

She's won awards for her astonishing scoop. But Newsnight's star producer now admits THAT car crash interview with Prince Andrew could never have happened... without the help of his daughter Princess Beatrice!

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 18, 2024
Former Newsnight producer Sam McAlister has become a star in her own right thanks to the part she played persuading  Prince Andrew to take part in his extraordinary TV interview. Not only did she win a BAFTA for her work, McAlister found herself played by Billie Piper in Netflix's new dramatisation of the episode, Scoop. But she says there was another key figure in persuading Queen Elizabeth's favourite son to take part in the encounter with interviewer Emily Maitlis - and that was none other than his eldest daughter, Princess Beatrice .

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince Andrew is the only person who still thinks his infamous Newsnight interview went well, source claims... as a SECOND drama about the saga is set to be released

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 17, 2024
With Amazon apparently suffering a crisis of confidence over the Emily Maitlis-inspired three-parter about the Duke of York's (pictured) car-crash interview, is Andrew cowering behind the sofa in anticipation of his name being dragged through the mud again? Not a bit of it. A source claims that he really doesn't see what the fuss is about, remaining the only person who still thinks the interview went well, and insisting he had a message to impart and delivered as rehearsed. The source thinks his insouciance only makes sense because he believes he has done nothing wrong. Meanwhile, producers of A Very Royal Scandal fear that the Netflix film, comprehensively scooping Amazon, has satiated interest in the banished duke.
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