Emma Jesson

Although known for her trademark TV ‘bye bye’ sign off, Emma originally trained to be a veterinary surgeon. She’s worked extensively with animals, specialising in exotic species and cruelty cases. She had a place at Cambridge University, but after her gap year ended up in television.

From Ruby Wax and light entertainment programmes, Emma forged a path for herself, working her way from behind the scenes to front of camera. This helps her enormously in her day-to-day professional life - she knows exactly what her colleagues behind the lens need from her.

As well as presenting the weather for ITV Central and Granada, she has started Racing Weather, which has given her national exposure on C4’s The Morning Line, Channel 4 Racing and dedicated horseracing satellite channels. She now regularly hosts events at racetracks across the UK - charity nights, awards ceremonies, conferences and racenights. Drop her an email via 'contact us' if you'd like her to be involved in your event.

Racing Ladies is also taking off.

Emma recently fronted twelve TV adverts for Orange mobile and has just finished recording a character voice for a new film, “Kingdom of Dust” to be released later this year – as well as making a small cameo appearance in Coronation Street!

Emma loves live work - whether on camera, or on stage - and regularly gets up in front of 6000 people to host some of Europe’s largest top-drawer conferences.  One of her favourite jobs is being invited to host prestigious awards ceremonies (150 – 800 people) and many of her clients book her regularly, from year to year. She also filmed, presented and edited a charity video for her most recent client to play at their awards ceremony which raised £5000.

Add to her credits a string of corporate videos and voice-overs for clients like Coca Cola, Sony and Kellogg’s and you’re getting the picture.

Emma also fronts an internet film for The Royal Mint, explaining the rules of their high-profile 50p piece competition, inviting designs to commemorate the London 2012 Olympics, and is honoured to form a small part of their heritage.

Emma has worked for GMTV, BBC and various independent production companies and - hush her mouth - is a cheeky regular on TV’s Naughty Blunders.  She’s very much a people person and with guests, always aims to be the perfect foil.

These days, viewers get a little extra from “Emma The Weather”.  Her ‘day job’ as freelance presenter incorporates news features as well as weather. She revels in the diverse nature of her reporting duties, especially anything a little eccentric.

Never one for sitting on the sidelines, several broadcasts have set her heart racing: piloting a flimsy Extra 300 to perform display acrobatics at Kemble airshow; flying foy with Peter Pan; diving with sealions; abseiling off Birmingham’s NEC and national trampolining. She is now on the look-out for an extreme weather challenge...

Emma’s had a lot of fun with her career thus far. She played a part in a British comedy feature film alongside Faye Tozer, Tony Slattery and Phil Cornwell and was a finalist picked from 18,500 vying to be the voice of BT’s Speaking Clock.  She is equally at home in her wellies filming Heart of the Country, and records numerous voice-overs (studio/ISDN) for a diverse range of subjects… holiday villas, medical and wildlife.