20 Facts About Emma Crosby

Emma Catherine Crosby was born on 5 June 1977 and is a British television newsreader and journalist.

Between 2003 and 2009, Crosby worked at Sky News, regularly co-presenting their breakfast programme Sunrise, along with various other programmes on the channel.

Emma Crosby co-hosted GMTV with Andrew Castle or Ben Shephard two or three days a week in rotation with Kate Garraway.

Emma Crosby joined Channel 5 in 2011, where she worked as their chief anchor on 5 News until 2015.

Emma Crosby 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.

Emma Crosby 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.

Emma Crosby joined Sky News in 2003, presenting the early morning news programme Sunrise.

Emma Crosby regularly co-presented the channel's weekday Sky News Today, and some weekend broadcasts.

Emma Crosby won a BAFTA for coverage of the 2007 Glasgow Airport terrorist attack.

Emma Crosby subsequently was the channel's business correspondent and, in October 2007, became a London correspondent on the Fox Business Network.

In January 2009, Emma Crosby moved to the long-running breakfast programme GMTV, replacing presenter Fiona Phillips, who left the channel for family reasons after 16 years.

On 1 August 2010, it was announced that Emma Crosby was leaving GMTV with the impending launch of Daybreak, which replaced GMTV.

In October 2010, Emma Crosby confirmed that she would present on CNN, before returning to BBC News.

Emma Crosby began presenting on the BBC News Channel's weekend evening slot on 23 October 2010, before moving on to afternoons the following week.

On 28 April 2014, Emma 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.

Emma Crosby returned to Sky News on a freelance basis in June 2017.

Emma Crosby is married to London-based professional photographer Jeremy Peters and they have two children.

In February 2017, Emma Crosby revealed that she feared she was losing her overdue baby because it had not moved for four hours.

Emma Crosby owns a two-bedroom flat in Cape Town, South Africa, which has views of Table Mountain.

Emma Crosby is an ambassador for the charities SOS Villages, RSPCA and Kicks Count.