{{Short description|English radio and television presenter}} {{EngvarB|date=November 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox person |name = Emma Forbes |image = |caption = |birth_name = Emma Katy Forbes |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1965|5|14}} |birth_place = Hammersmith, London, England |occupation = Radio and television presenter | alma_mater = Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts |years_active = 1971–present |spouse = {{marriage|Graham Clempson|1987}} |father = Bryan Forbes |mother = Nanette Newman }}
'''Emma Katy Forbes''' (born 14 May 1965 in Hammersmith, London) is an English radio and television presenter. Forbes got her start on presenting the cooking segment on ''Going Live!,'' and before going on to present or co-present numerous BBC and ITV TV and breakfast shows, as well as to co-present radio shows on Heart 106.2 and Capital 95.8 and BBC Radio 2''.'' Forbes was also the face of a long-running television advert campaign for Head & Shoulders shampoo in the 1990s and, in 1996, she was voted one of FHM 100 Sexiest Women. Together with her sister, she also opened a shop in Belgravia, London.
==Early life== Forbes's parents are Nanette Newman and Bryan Forbes.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3799227.stm | work=BBC News | title=Director Bryan Forbes made CBE | date=12 June 2004 | access-date=2 May 2010}}</ref> She attended Hurst Lodge School.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite news| url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article833804.ece?token=null&offset=12 | work=The Times | location=London | title=Relative Values Emma Forbes and Sarah Standing | date=1 December 2002 | access-date=2 May 2010}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
== Career == Forbes presented the cooking slot on ''Going Live!,'' a position she won after bombarding the production office with ideas for 'makes'.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/goinglive/trivia.shtml |title=Cult – Classic TV – Going Live (1987–1992) |publisher=BBC |date= |access-date=19 October 2010}}</ref><ref>[http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/childrens/liveandkicking.htm OFF THE TELLY: Children's/Live on Arrival] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070415233058/http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/childrens/liveandkicking.htm |date=15 April 2007 }}</ref> She was then selected as co-presenter for the replacement BBC children's show ''Live & Kicking'' with Andi Peters from 1993 through to 1996<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paulmorris.co.uk/satkids/liveandkicking.htm |title=Live and Kicking |publisher=Paulmorris.co.uk |date= |access-date=19 October 2010}}</ref> and also presented ITV's teenage problem show ''Speakeasy''.
From 1994 to 1996, Forbes hosted a Meridian Television revival of the panel show ''What's My Line?''. (Her mother had been a regular panellist on the 1970s BBC version of the show.) She has voiced Mummy Hippo in the children's animated series, ''Peppa Pig''. She also presented the Heart 106.2 breakfast show, alongside Jonathan Coleman, before she left to present on Capital 95.8.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article1158860.ece?token=null&offset=36 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110918113548/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article1158860.ece?token=null&offset=36 | url-status=dead | archive-date=18 September 2011 | work=The Times | location=London | title=Once upon a time there was a pop princess | first=Our | last=Correspondents | date=15 September 2003 | access-date=2 May 2010}}</ref>
Forbes was the face of a long-running television advert campaign for Head & Shoulders shampoo in the mid-to-late 1990s. In 1996, she was voted number 64 in the FHM 100 Sexiest Women Poll, and has been represented by Storm Models.<ref>[http://www.stormmodels.com/specialbookingsdetails.html?id=3181 Emma Forbes – Storm Models] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061109114353/http://www.stormmodels.com/specialbookingsdetails.html?id=3181 |date=9 November 2006 }}</ref>
Alongside Mark Radcliffe, Forbes has co-hosted the Steve Wright show on BBC Radio 2. Also on BBC Radio 2 Forbes presented a Saturday show from 6 pm to 8 pm alongside comedian Alan Carr called ''Going Out with Alan Carr'', and a Sunday morning breakfast show, replacing Pete Mitchell.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/may/27/zoe-ball-saturday-bbc-radio-2|title= Zoe Ball to host Saturday early breakfast show on Radio 2|work= The Guardian|first= John|last= Plunkett|date= 27 May 2009|access-date= 27 May 2009 | location=London}}</ref> On 13 December 2009, she announced that she would no longer be presenting her Sunday show on BBC Radio 2, but she continued to co-present ''Going Out With Alan Carr'' on Saturday evenings until April 2010. From March 2011, Forbes was a regular discussion contributor on ITV's daytime show ''The Alan Titchmarsh Show'', which ended in November 2014.
==Personal life== Forbes lives with her husband Graham Clempson and they have two children, born in 1996 and 1999. She suffered from postnatal depression after both births.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
When she took a professional break to have her two children, Forbes and her journalist sister Sarah Standing started a shop in Belgravia, London.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2002/07/01/efexdir29.xml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131192019/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2002/07/01/efexdir29.xml | url-status=dead | archive-date=31 January 2008 | work=The Daily Telegraph | location=London | title=The ex-directory: Semmalina Clare Coulson visits a wonderland for little girls | date=1 July 2002 | access-date=2 May 2010}} </ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allaboutyou.com/living/inspirationalstories/sarahstanding/ |title=Standing out |publisher=Allaboutyou.com |date= |access-date=19 October 2010 |archive-date=1 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080401054733/http://www.allaboutyou.com/living/inspirationalstories/sarahstanding/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070429131757/http://www.icmpresenters.co.uk/presenters/index.php?mode=view&p=59 INDEPENDENT TALENT GROUP LTD : Formerly ICM London<!-- Bot generated title -->]}}</ref> Forbes is a party organiser.<ref>[http://www.thelocalshop.com/default.asp?Call=Article&Search=&ID=4691 ACS | The Voice of Local Shops<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927090559/http://www.thelocalshop.com/default.asp?Call=Article&Search=&ID=4691 |date=27 September 2007 }}</ref> Forbes is also a patron of Great Ormond Street Hospital.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://gosh.org/news/celebrity/radio/eforbes.html|title=News and features|access-date=2018-05-30|language=en}}</ref> She is also a long-time fan of Bolton Wanderers Football Club.
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