Daily Express - 02.09.2019

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I have reached an age where I

think, ‘I have done this long

enough, I am not being stupid,

you’ve not answered the

questions’.”

The 48-year-old took the top

presenting role on an all-

woman team with Kirsty Wark

and Emma Barnett.

She said: “It felt really nice.

We have a female editor who is

incredibly thoughtful,

encouraging and supportive,

and I present with two other

women who are just great.

“The loveliest thing was the

response from the team which

was ‘about bloody time’, and so

I ended up thinking it had all

sort of fallen into place.”

Her appointment came as

Brexit was top of every agenda,

something she feels has made

the audience more responsive.

“It’s made people

simultaneously more engaged

with politics and more

frustrated and dismissive of

politics,” she said. But one

career downside is that Emily

barely gets to see her husband,

banker Mark Gwynne.

They met while she was in

Hong Kong working for

Channel 4 News and got

engaged on New Year’s Eve

1999 when she proposed.

They have two sons, Milo, 14,

and Max, 12.

Emily said: “We’re like ships

that pass in the night, but it

works.

“My best night is Saturday as

it’s always at home. I hate

going out on Saturday

nights; I like a box set, red

wine, and that is it.”

● The full interview can

be seen in Good

Housekeeping’s

October issue, on

sale from

Wednesday.

By Kelly Allen

Bizarre

Newsnight Emily: I feared

sack for rolling eyes at MP

PRESENTER Emily Maitlis

thought she had lost her

Newsnight hot seat after she

rolled her eyes at a politician

during a Brexit interview.

Emily, who had just taken

over on the BBC current affairs

show, was panicking that she

would be thought biased when

a clip of her reaction to Barry

Gardiner went viral.

It happened in March after

the Labour MP would not say

what “Brexit vision” would be

on his party’s manifesto, just

days before the UK was

originally leaving the EU.

“It was bizarre,” Emily told

Good Housekeeping magazine.

“I don’t think I realised until I

woke up the next morning and

checked Twitter; it was

trending. I could not remember

it at first and when I did, I

thought, ‘Oh no’ and, ‘Has that

landed me in trouble?’ It wasn’t

meant to be a political position.

Emily on

magazine

cover

Sitting

pretty...

presenter

Emily

Pictures: DANIEL BENSON / GH