Emma Forbes

Orang tua Forbes adalah Nanette Newman dan Bryan Forbes. Dia bersekolah di Hurst Lodge School. Forbes mempersembahkan slot memasak di Going Live!, posisi yang dimenangkannya setelah membombardir kantor produksi dengan ide-ide 'merek'. Dia kemudian terpilih sebagai co-presenter untuk acara anak-anak pengganti BBC Live & Kicking bersama Andi Peters dari tahun 1993 hingga 1996 dan juga menjadi pembawa acara acara masalah remaja ITV, Speakeasy. Dari tahun 1994 hingga 1996, Forbes menjadi pembawa acara kebangkitan acara panel What's My Line? di Meridian Television. (Ibunya pernah menjadi panelis reguler di acara versi BBC tahun 1970-an.) Dia mengisi suara Mummy Hippo dalam serial animasi anak-anak, Peppa Pig. Dia juga membawakan acara sarapan Heart 106.2, bersama Jonathan Coleman, sebelum dia berangkat untuk melakukan presentasi di Capital 95.8. Forbes adalah wajah dari kampanye iklan televisi yang sudah berjalan lama untuk sampo Head & Bahu pada pertengahan hingga akhir 1990an. Pada tahun 1996, ia terpilih sebagai nomor 64 dalam Jajak Pendapat 100 Wanita Terseksi FHM, dan diwakili oleh Storm Models. Bersama Mark Radcliffe, Forbes menjadi pembawa acara bersama acara Steve Wright di BBC Radio 2. Juga di BBC Radio 2 Forbes menyajikan acara hari Sabtu dari jam 6 sore sampai jam 8 malam bersama komedian Alan Carr berjudul Going Out with Alan Carr, dan acara sarapan pagi di hari Minggu, menggantikan Pete Mitchell. Pada 13 Desember 2009, ia mengumumkan bahwa ia tidak akan lagi menjadi pembawa acara Minggunya di BBC Radio 2, namun ia terus menjadi pembawa acara bersama Going Out With Alan Carr pada Sabtu malam hingga April 2010. Sejak Maret 2011, Forbes menjadi kontributor diskusi reguler di acara siang hari ITV The Alan Titchmarsh Show, yang berakhir pada November 2014.

Forbes's parents are Nanette Newman and Bryan Forbes. She attended Hurst Lodge School. Forbes presented the cooking slot on Going Live!, a position she won after bombarding the production office with ideas for 'makes'. She was then selected as co-presenter for the replacement BBC children's show Live & Kicking with Andi Peters from 1993 through to 1996 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. 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. 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. 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.