Emma Crosby

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.[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]

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.

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]

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