Emma Crosby
| Emma Crosby | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Emma Catherine Crosby 5 June 1977 |
| Residence |
South London, England Cape Town, South Africa |
| Occupation | Newsreader, television presenter |
Emma Catherine Crosby (born 5 June 1977), is a British television newsreader and journalist. Between 2003 and 2007, Crosby worked on Sky News co-presenting their Breakfast programme Sunrise. She joined the programme in 2003, where she was a co-host of the weekday editions until 2005, when she began co-hosting the weekend editions. She left Sky News in 2007, after which she worked with the BBC, hosting a number of their News programmes.
In 2009, Emma 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.
Crosby then joined Channel 5 in 2011, where she worked as their chief anchor on 5 News. She also presented the channel's NewsTalk Live programme between 2013 and 2014.
On 5 November 2015, Emma announced she was leaving Channel 5 News to have a baby and her final show was on 6 November 2015. She returned to Channel 5 after her maternity.
The only child of an English father who worked for Sainsbury's and a Scottish mother who worked for Marks & Spencer, 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.
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.
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