Samantha Simmonds

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Samantha Simmonds
Born
Samantha Rose Simmonds

1972/1973 (age 48–50)
Bradford, England
Occupation
  • Newsreader
  • journalist
  • television presenter
Notable credit(s)
Spouse(s)Phillip Davies
Children3
Websitesamanthasimmonds.com

Samantha Rose Simmonds (born 1972/1973[1][2]) is an English newsreader, television presenter and journalist. She was a news anchor for Sky News until July 2016.

Early life[]

Simmonds was born in Bradford and grew up in Leeds[3] where she attended Leeds Girls' High School.[4] She studied for a BA at Liverpool University.[5] Whilst a student in Liverpool, she appeared as a contestant on the ITV television show Blind Date.[6] Simmonds was raised in a "culturally Jewish" home.

Journalism career[]

After gaining a postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism from City University in London in 1995,[7] Simmonds worked as a reporter for local radio in Yorkshire before moving to London for a job as a producer on Channel Five News. She was later a presenter on BBC Breakfast and spent two years reporting and presenting BBC London's news programmes before joining Sky News in 2005. While presenting that channel, she was the first British journalist to break the story of Michael Jackson's death.[8] Simmonds left Sky News in 2016, along with several other anchors, as part of a cost-cutting exercise.[9] She can now be seen presenting on BBC World News, which she joined in March 2017.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Missing Alumni: 1994 (Search: Samantha Simmonds)". University of Liverpool. Retrieved 28 August 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Yaffe, Simon. "Blind date started TV love affair for Samantha". Jewish Telegraph. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  3. ^ "Samantha Simmonds • Q and A". TV Newsroom.
  4. ^ "The Grammar School at Leeds, GSAL, Leeds Grammar School, Leeds, Yorkshire, leading independent co-educational school «  The Grammar School at Leeds". gsal.org.uk.
  5. ^ "BBC NEWS – Programmes – Breakfast – Reporters – Samantha Simmonds". bbc.co.uk.
  6. ^ "About – Samantha Simmonds". Samantha Simmonds.
  7. ^ "Samantha Simmonds". sky.com.
  8. ^ "Samantha Simmonds Sky News". Samantha Simmonds.
  9. ^ "Andrew Wilson and other Sky News anchors leave ship". The Guardian. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  10. ^ Simmonds, Samantha [@samanthaTVnews] (19 March 2017). "Excited to be back on air at the BBC- I'll be presenting @bbcworld 12-6 GMT - do tune in if you can!" (Tweet). Retrieved 14 June 2021 – via Twitter.

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