Emma Crosby

Journalist

Emma Crosby was born in St Albans, England, United Kingdom on June 5th, 1977 and is the Journalist. At the age of 46, Emma Crosby 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
June 5, 1977
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
Age
46 years old
Zodiac Sign
Gemini
Profession
Journalist, Television Presenter
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Emma Crosby Life

Emma Catherine Crosby (born 5 June 1977) is a British television newsreader and journalist. Crosby appeared on Sky News, co-presenting their breakfast program Sunrise and several other programs on the channel between 2003 and 2009.

In 2009, she co-presented GMTV, which she hosted until the show was replaced by Daybreak the next year.

With Kate Garraway, she co-hosted GMTV with Andrew Castle or Ben Shephard for two to three days a week in rotation.

She joined Channel 5 in 2011, where she served as the nation's chief anchor on 5 News until 2015.

In June 2017, she returned to Sky News.

Early life

Crosby's only child of an English father who worked for Sainsbury's and a Scottish mother who worked for Marks & Spencer were born in Newbury, Berkshire. At Leeds University, she studied drama, theatre, film, and television, as well as an internship at ITN, and she earned a postgraduate diploma in journalism at Cardiff University.

Personal life

Crosby lives in South London. Jeremy Peters, a London-based professional photographer, and they have two children. Crosby expressed anxiety in February 2017 that she was going to lose her overdue baby (Mary) because it had not moved for four hours. She also owns a two-bedroom apartment in Cape Town, South Africa, with a view of Table Mountain. Crosby is the ambassador for SOS Villages, RSPCA, and Kicks Count.

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Emma Crosby Career

Broadcasting career

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.

In 2001, she joined CNBC Europe and became a presenter on European Market Wrap. 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.

Crosby joined Sky News in 2003, presenting the early morning news programme Sunrise. 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. 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. On 1 August 2010, it was announced that Crosby was leaving GMTV with the impending launch of Daybreak, which replaced GMTV. 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. She began presenting on the BBC News Channel's weekend evening slot on 23 October 2010, before moving on to afternoons the following week. 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.

In February 2011, she was appointed a presenter of 5 News as a replacement for Natasha Kaplinsky, 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.

On 28 April 2014, Crosby began co-hosting a new programme called 5 News Tonight alongside 5 News returnee Matt Barbet 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.

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.

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