Biography
Forbes's parents are Nanette Newman and Bryan Forbes. Forbes graduated from the Hurst Lodge School.
Forbes presented the cooking slot on Going Live!, 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 1993-1996 and also presented ITV's teenage problem show Speakeasy. She presented Talking Telephone Numbers with Phillip Schofield for ITV upon leaving Live & Kicking, until replaced by Claudia Winkleman. She also presented the Heart 106.2 breakfast show, alongside Jonathan Coleman, before she left to present on Capital 95.8.
From 1994 to 1997 she 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.)
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 is still represented by Storm Models.
Alongside Mark Radcliffe, Forbes co-hosted the Steve Wright show on BBC Radio 2 for one week in October 2007, and for one day on 26 November 2007. She hosted the show again for one week commencing 28 April 2008 alongside Radcliffe for one week commencing 29 September 2008, and again on 23 February 2009. From 25 April 2009, BBC Radio 2 announced a new weekend schedule which featured Emma presenting a Saturday show from 6-8pm alongside comedian Alan Carr called Going Out with Alan Carr. From Sunday 7 June 2009 she also presented the Sunday morning breakfast show on Radio 2, replacing Pete Mitchell. Emma announced that she would no longer be presenting her Sunday show on BBC Radio 2 on 13 December 2009. She was replaced by Lynn Parsons. Emma continued to co-present Going Out With Alan Carr on Saturday evenings until April 2010, when she suddenly left the programme.
Since March 2011, Forbes has been a regular discussion contributor on ITV's daytime show The Alan Titchmarsh Show.
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