Emily Maitlis Biography
Emily Maitlis is a BBC newsreader, documentary filmmaker, and journalist from the United Kingdom. She is the lead anchor of BBC Two’s news and current affairs program Newsnight, and she also covers elections for the BBC in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Europe.
How old is Emily Maitlis? – Age
She is 50 years old as of 6 September 2020. She was born in 1970 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Emily Maitlis Family
Maitlis was born to Jewish parents from the United Kingdom; her paternal grandmother was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany. She is the daughter of Professor Peter Maitlis FRS, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield, and Marion Maitlis, a psychotherapist.
Is Emily Maitlis still Married? – Husband
Maitlis is married to Catholic investment manager Mark Gwynne, whom she met while working in Hong Kong. In the year 2000, she proposed to her husband while on vacation in Mauritius. Milo and Max are their two children. Maitlis is a WellChild Celebrity Ambassador and an avid runner.
Where did Emily Maitlis go to University?
She attended King Edward VII School in Sheffield, a state comprehensive school, and then Queens College in Cambridge, where she studied English. She was the only Newsnight presenter who had not attended a private school as of 2019.
How many Languages does Emily Maitlis Speak?
She is fluent in French, Spanish, and Italian, and has studied Mandarin. Her family is Jewish, though she claims they are “not very religious.”
Emily Maitlis Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $4 million dollars.
What is Emily Maitlis Salary?
Maitlis was among the highest-paid BBC news and current affairs staff in 2019, with a salary ranging from £260,000 to £264,999.
Emily Maitlis Career
Maitlis wanted to be a director because she loved drama, but she ended up working in radio broadcasting. She was a documentary filmmaker in Cambodia and China before working in news. She was based in Hong Kong and worked for the NBC network.
She worked for TVB News and NBC Asia in Hong Kong for six years, first as a business reporter creating documentaries and then as a presenter in Hong Kong covering the collapse of the tiger economies in 1997. She also covered the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong for Channel 4 alongside Jon Snow. She then worked as a business correspondent for Sky News in the United Kingdom, and then for BBC London News when it was relaunched in 2001.
Maitlis was the question-master on the game show The National Lottery: Come And Have A Go in 2005. Between 2006 and 2016, she was a regular presenter on BBC News Channel, alongside Ben Brown and Jon Sopel. She also hosted BBC Breakfast and STORYFix on BBC News from May 2006 to July 2007, a lighthearted look at the week’s news set to upbeat music. Maitlis was appointed as an unpaid contributing editor to The Spectator magazine in July 2007. This was approved by her immediate manager, BBC Television News head Peter Horrocks, but the decision was later reversed by his superior, BBC news director Helen Boaden.
Maitlis co-presented the BBC One and BBC News Channel coverage of the US 2012 election with David Dimbleby in 2012, when incumbent US President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were vying for the presidency of the United States. In 2016, she hosted This Week’s World, a news discussion show on BBC Two that aired late on Saturday afternoons.
Maitlis, along with Kirsty Wark and Emma Barnett, is one of the main presenters of BBC Two’s Newsnight. She started as a relief presenter on the show in 2006 and worked her way up to become the show’s lead anchor after Evan Davis left in 2018. She responds to emails from viewers after each show, before going to bed, and in April 2019, she published the book Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News, which describes how television news is produced.
Maitlis spoke with Prince Andrew, Duke of York, in November 2019 about his relationship with American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. The interview aired on the BBC’s Newsnight program on November 16, 2019. Prince Andrew later resigned from his royal duties, in part because of the disastrous fallout from his performance during this interview. In July 2020, the campaign group Defund the BBC ran billboards with the headline “Are you still paying?” highlighting Maitlis’ and Gary Lineker’s salaries.
Her interview with Prince Andrew won Interview of the Year and Scoop of the Year at the 2020 RTS Television Journalism Awards in February 2020. In 2020, Maitlis began co-hosting the BBC podcast Americast with Jon Sopel, the BBC’s North America Editor, and Anthony Zurcher, the BBC’s Chief North America Reporter. The podcasts were originally focused on the 2020 election and include analysis as well as interviews from across the political spectrum. Americast received positive feedback and charted well on iTunes, becoming the UK’s most listened to a podcast of any genre at times. The podcast was supposed to end after the election, but it was extended due to its popularity.