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Emily Maitlis
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Emily Maitlis, (born 6 September 1970, Canada), educated in Sheffield at King Edward VII School, is a British television newscaster for the BBC in the United Kingdom.
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A language graduate from Queens' College, Cambridge, she speaks fluent Mandarin, Spanish and Italian. Prior to working in news, she was a documentary maker in Cambodia and China. She worked for the NBC network and was based in Hong Kong.
Previously, she spent six years with NBC Asia, initially as a reporter creating documentaries, and then as a presenter in Hong Kong. She then moved to Sky News in the UK as a business correspondent, and then to BBC London News when the programme re-launched in 2001.
She is now one of the main presenters of Newsnight on BBC2, presenting along the likes of Jeremy Paxman, Kirsty Wark and Gavin Esler on a regular basis, as well as presenting across a range of other BBC News programs, mainly the one o'clock news on regular fridays. Emily has also presented BBC News 24 as one of the new faces of the 7-10pm slot along side Ben Brown, but has since been replaced by Joanna Gosling
During 2005 Maitlis appeared as the questionmistress on the game show The National Lottery: Come And Have A Go. She has also recently presented BBC Breakfast.
From May 2006, she has presented STORYFix on BBC News 24, a more light-hearted look at the week's news set to up-beat music.
From a Jewish family background, Emily Maitlis is the daughter of Professor Peter Maitlis, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield. She is married to Mark, a banker[1], with whom she has two children.
- During 2002, it emerged that Maitlis had been stalked throughout the preceding six years by an ex-university friend. The 32-year-old male student pursued Maitlis with correspondence, and would appear at her place of work. The stalker concerned was arrested, and Maitlis had to testify at his trial. [2] She lived at the time close to where Jill Dando was killed, and the episode showed similarities to other incidents of stalking involving Julia Somerville and Sarah Lockett.
- In March 2007, another sex-offender who had become infatuated with Maitlis and Fiona Bruce was sentenced to 4 life terms in prison.