Emily Maitlis Biography
Emily Maitlis is a Canadian-born British media personality serving as the host of the daily podcast The News Agents on LBC Radio. A seasoned journalist and documentary filmmaker, Emily was previously a Newsnight anchor on BBC.
Emily Maitlis Age
Maitlis is 53 years old as of January 2024. She was born on 6 September 1970, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Emily Maitlis Height
She stands at an average height of 1.7 m (5 feet 7 inches).
Emily Maitlis Nationality
She holds British nationality.
Emily Maitlis Education
Maitlis was educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield. She then headed to Queens’ College, Cambridge where she studied English. At the University, she encountered a man who would later be repeatedly jailed for stalking her, an experience she has described as posing a constant threat to her life and her family’s life.
Emily Maitlis Parents
Emily is the youngest of three daughters of Peter and Marion Maitlis, a psychotherapist. She was born in Canada while her father was teaching at McMaster University in Hamilton. Peter Maitlis, an expert in palladium chemistry and a fellow of the Royal Society, then took a job as Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield and moved his family back to England. She was brought up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire with her two older sisters, Nicky and Sally.
Emily’s parents are British and Jewish. Her paternal grandmother was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany. Emily lost her father Peter on 18 May 2022, at the age of 89.
Emily Maitlis Husband
Who is Emily Maitlis married to? Emily is married to investment manager Mark Gwynne, who is Catholic. The couple met in Hong Kong, while Emily was working in radio news. She said: “We met at a party while working in Hong Kong.”
In 2000 while on a holiday in Mauritius, Emily proposed to her husband. Although she had brought a wedding dress with her intending to marry while on holiday, Mark refused to tie the knot on the beach. Speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show in 2019, Emily explained that her husband turning down her suggestion of eloping was the right decision.
She said: “It was about day three [of our holiday] and I’d packed this white dress and thought, ‘What have I got to lose?’ And so I proposed and he went: ‘Oh my God, that’s amazing, no.’ I was like, ‘We could get married on the beach on Friday, I’ve packed a dress.’ So he said yes to the proposal but no to [getting married there and then on the beach].”
The couple is blessed with two sons, Milo and Max, and they live in Kensington, London. Emily is a keen runner and a WellChild Celebrity Ambassador. She also speaks fluent French, Spanish, and Italian, and some Mandarin.
Emily Maitlis Podcast
Emily is the host of the daily podcast The News Agents on LBC Radio. A seasoned journalist and documentary filmmaker, Emily once charmed BBC audiences as Newsnight’s anchor. Nowadays, she’s commanding the airwaves with The News Agents podcast on LBC Radio. Among her accolades, Emily clinched Broadcast Journalist of the Year in 2017 and Network Presenter of the Year awards in 2019 and 2020. She was the lead anchor of the BBC Two news and current affairs programme Newsnight until the end of 2021.
On 22 February 2022, Emily announced her resignation from the BBC after signing with Global, the parent of LBC, to launch a daily podcast and joint radio show with ex-BBC journalist, Jon Sopel. In May 2023, Emily was featured in a two-part Channel 4 documentary called Andrew: The Problem Prince; which explores the events leading up to Prince Andrew’s infamous Newsnight interview of 2019. In November 2023, she was named as an executive producer on A Very Royal Scandal with Emily being played by Ruth Wilson and Michael Sheen as Prince Andrew.
Is Emily Maitlis Ill?
As of January 2024, Maitlis is in perfect health condition. However, before her now infamous Prince Andrew interview for BBC Newsnight, she felt really sick.
In a new two-part Channel 4 documentary called Andrew: The Problem Prince – which Maitlis executive produced – she describes the run-up to grilling the Duke of York over his relationship with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Indeed, so calamitous was the resulting tête-à-tête in November 2019 that the duke would afterward step down from public life.
Maitlis explained the trepidation she felt as she made her way to the Buckingham Palace ballroom where the meeting had been due to take place. She said: “I arrived at the palace with my huge bag. I ended up wearing this sort of military-style jacket.”
“I remember thinking he’ll like a military coat, he’s a man of the armed forces, he’ll appreciate that and then I start to feel actually just really sick and I dived into the loo. I just wanted the door shut, I wanted to have two seconds of going: ‘Where am I? Right, what’s going on? Where is my head?’
“I had to deal with the fact that I was about to ask this man, this royal, this prince about his sex life. I was thinking, ‘How do I not mess this up?’”
Emily Maitlis Salary
Maitlis was amongst the highest-paid BBC news and current affairs staff receiving a salary of £325,000 annually. However, after leaving BBC and heading to LBC, Maitlis has had a huge pay rise. One LBC insider told MailOnline that Maitlis will now be on ‘at least’ £ 400,000 a year, but it ‘could be more’ because of the number of projects she will work on.
Emily Maitlis Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of £2 million as of January 2024.
