Emma Crosby
British television newsreader and journalist (born 1977)
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Emma Catherine Crosby (born 5 June 1977[citation needed]) is a British television newsreader and journalist.
5 June 1977
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.
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.[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]
Personal life
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]