Sophy Ridge

Sophy Arabella Ridge (born 1984) is an English broadcast journalist, who presents Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday.

Ridge was born in 1984 in Richmond upon Thames, London. She was educated at the selective grammar Tiffin Girls' School in London, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where she studied English Literature.

After graduation in 2006, Ridge was a trainee reporter at the tabloid newspaper News of the World where she initially worked as a consumer affairs correspondent before later taking on the role of a political correspondent. She then gained a job as a political correspondent on Sky News in 2011. During her time there she covered a broad range of political stories and has travelled with the Prime Minister to Afghanistan, New York, and Brazil. She was based in Colorado for the channel's coverage of the US elections and is known for her round the clock broadcasting at the annual party conferences.

She was formerly Sky News Political Correspondent based at Westminster. Her highest profile role was in 2015 as she played a key role in the 2015 general election coverage for Sky, reporting on the Labour Party's campaign and conducting interviews with party members. She also contributed news articles to the Sky News website.

In 2017 Ridge became a presenter on her own show Sophy Ridge on Sunday.

Ridge claims that the U.S. public's rejection of Hillary Clinton in the United States presidential election, 2016, is due to sexism. She states: "To put it bluntly: women can be sexist too... There are plenty of women who think mothers should stay at home to raise a family, believe girls wear pink and play with dolls and secretly would feel a little bit safer if they knew a man was flying their plane."

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