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    Emma Forbes

    1965-05-14 (59 years old) in Hammersmith, London, England, UK

    Forbes's parents are Nanette Newman and Bryan Forbes. She attended Hurst Lodge School. Forbes presented the cooking slot on Going Live!, a position she 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 through to 1996 and also presented ITV's teenage problem show Speakeasy. From 1994 to 1996, Forbes 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.) She has voiced Mummy Hippo in the children's animated series, Peppa Pig. She also presented the Heart 106.2 breakfast show, alongside Jonathan Coleman, before she left to present on Capital 95.8. 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 has been represented by Storm Models. Alongside Mark Radcliffe, Forbes has co-hosted the Steve Wright show on BBC Radio 2. Also on BBC Radio 2 Forbes presented a Saturday show from 6 pm to 8 pm alongside comedian Alan Carr called Going Out with Alan Carr, and a Sunday morning breakfast show, replacing Pete Mitchell. On 13 December 2009, she announced that she would no longer be presenting her Sunday show on BBC Radio 2, but she continued to co-present Going Out With Alan Carr on Saturday evenings until April 2010. From March 2011, Forbes was a regular discussion contributor on ITV's daytime show The Alan Titchmarsh Show, which ended in November 2014.

    Movies

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    It Started with Swap Shop
    0 %|Dec 28, 2006
    Documentary, Comedy
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    No Sleep Till Sheffield: Pulp Go Public
    0 %|Dec 18, 1995
    Documentary, Music
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    The Slipper and the Rose
    69 %|Mar 25, 1976
    Adventure, Fantasy, Romance

    Series

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    The Alan Titchmarsh Show
    37 %|Sep 3, 2007
    Talk
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    Celebrity Masterchef
    63 %|Sep 11, 2006
    Reality
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    Ready Steady Cook
    0 %|Oct 24, 1994
    Reality
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    Ready Steady Cook
    0 %|Oct 24, 1994
    Reality
    actor
    Talking Telephone Numbers
    65 %|Feb 28, 1994
    poster
    Shooting Stars
    75 %|Dec 27, 1993
    Comedy
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    Live & Kicking
    53 %|Oct 2, 1993
    actor
    Star Pets
    0 %|Sep 24, 1992
    actor
    Pebble Mill
    31 %|Oct 14, 1991
    Talk
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    Press Gang
    73 %|Jan 16, 1989
    Comedy, Drama
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    Going Live!
    60 %|Sep 26, 1987
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    Countdown
    57.06 %|Nov 2, 1982
    Reality
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    An Audience with...
    53 %|Jan 8, 1978
    Talk