Emily Maitlis was the lead anchor of the BBC Two news and current affairs programme Newsnight until the end of 2021.
36 Facts About Emily Maitlis
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Emily Maitlis is currently a presenter of the daily podcast, The News Agents on LBC Radio.
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Emily Maitlis is the daughter of Professor Peter Maitlis FRS, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield, and Marion Maitlis, a psychotherapist.
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Emily Maitlis was brought up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire with her two older sisters, Nicky and Sally.
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Emily Maitlis was educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and then studied English at Queens' College, Cambridge.
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Emily Maitlis initially wanted to work as a director, prompted by her love for drama, but instead went into radio broadcasting.
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Emily Maitlis worked for the NBC network and was based in Hong Kong.
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Emily Maitlis spent six years in Hong Kong with TVB News and NBC Asia, initially as a business reporter creating documentaries, and then as a presenter in Hong Kong covering the collapse of the tiger economies in 1997.
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Emily Maitlis covered the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong with Jon Snow for Channel 4.
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Emily Maitlis then moved to Sky News in the UK as a business correspondent, and then to BBC London News when the programme was relaunched in 2001.
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Emily Maitlis was a regular presenter on BBC News Channel for a decade between 2006 and 2016, alongside Ben Brown and Jon Sopel.
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Emily Maitlis presented BBC Breakfast and from May 2006 until July 2007 presented STORYFix on BBC News, a light-hearted look at the week's news set to up-beat music.
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In July 2007, Emily Maitlis was appointed as a contributing editor to The Spectator magazine, an unpaid post.
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In 2012, Emily Maitlis presented the US 2012 election coverage on BBC One and the BBC News Channel alongside David Dimbleby, when incumbent US President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were fighting for the presidency of the US.
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Emily Maitlis was a main presenter of Newsnight on BBC Two, alongside Kirsty Wark and Emma Barnett.
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Emily Maitlis first joined the programme as a relief presenter in 2006, working her way up to be lead anchor of the programme following the departure of Evan Davis in 2018.
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In February 2020, her interview with Prince Andrew won Interview of the Year and Scoop of the Year awards at the 2020 RTS Television Journalism Awards, and Emily Maitlis is reportedly making a scripted drama with Blueprint Pictures of this interview.
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In 2020, Emily Maitlis began presenting a BBC podcast, Americast, with Jon Sopel, the BBC's North America editor.
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On 22 February 2022, Emily Maitlis announced her resignation from the BBC after signing with Global, the parent of LBC, to launch a daily podcast and joint radio show again with ex-BBC journalist, Jon Sopel.
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In May 2023, Emily Maitlis was featured a two-part Channel 4 documentary called Andrew: The Problem Prince; which explores the events leading up to Prince Andrew's infamous Newsnight interview of 2019.
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Emily Maitlis had accused Liddle of writing columns containing "consistent casual racism week after week", asking Liddle if he would describe himself as a racist.
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The Complaints Unit did not find that Emily Maitlis had in fact failed to be even-handed.
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Emily Maitlis did not present Newsnight on that day, asking to take the night off.
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In February 2021, Emily Maitlis was criticised over lacking impartiality after sharing a tweet by Piers Morgan which condemned the government.
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Emily Maitlis is married to investment manager Mark Gwynne, who is Catholic, whom she met while working in Hong Kong.
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Emily Maitlis proposed to her husband while on holiday in Mauritius in 2000.
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Emily Maitlis is a keen runner and a WellChild Celebrity Ambassador.
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Emily Maitlis speaks fluent French, Spanish and Italian, and some Mandarin.
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Emily Maitlis presented the 2012 World Jewish Relief's annual dinner at Guildhall, London.
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Emily Maitlis's family is Jewish, although she has said that they are "not very practising".
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Emily Maitlis admitted to harassing Maitlis, and was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, but released because of the time he had spent in detention on remand.
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Emily Maitlis admitted two charges of breaching the restraining order by sending two letters to Maitlis, as well as emails and letters to her mother in 2015.
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In September 2019, while a prisoner at HM Prison Ranby in Nottinghamshire, he pleaded not guilty to breaching an order restraining him from contacting Emily Maitlis by writing a letter with the intention of having it sent to her.
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In 2012 Emily Maitlis received an honorary doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University.
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Emily Maitlis won Broadcast Journalist of the Year at the 2017 London Press Club Awards and the Network Presenter of the Year award at the RTS Television Journalism Awards in 2019 and 2020.
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Emily Maitlis received the German Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award in 2020.