-From Vet to Met-
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 those on the other side of the lens require of her.
As well as presenting the weather for ITV Central and Granada, she has started a new sporting service, Racing Weather, which has given her national exposure on C4's The Morning Line, Channel 4 Racing and dedicated horseracing satellite channels. She now has big plans for her next project, Racing Ladies. You'll be hearing more...
Emma is the face of a series of adverts for the "Monkey" music sharing campaign for Orange mobile - a joint venture between Orange UK, Universal Music Group and Channel 4.
She 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 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 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 - they raised nearly £5000 so she must've done something right!
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 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. She tries to tackle things from a slightly different angle... click on the BRITS Red Carpet clip on this website… (http://www.emmajesson.com/britawards.htm)
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... And it's a standing joke on her website that she always has fine food and a glass of something fizzy in her hand! But not for those aerial broadcasts…
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.
She's also an interviewer for commentary teams at major UK airshows, including Fairford Royal International Air Tattoo.
Away from TV, she enjoys dinner and a musical; having a flutter at the races - she loves those cheeky longshots; or indulging her love of languages, comedy, photography and travel. Or maybe just sleeping.
A fair-weather water baby, she is a PADI qualified Advanced Open Water diver with an RYA qualification enabling her to sail big yachts as a Day Skipper. She loves windsurfing. Cooking's another favourite - but only when there's plenty of time and a bottle of wine to hand. She can sing too - maybe it's the merlot? But tarot reading hasn't helped her much so far with her weather forecasts…
She goes home to see her family whenever she can. She is patron of the RSPCA's Safe Haven Scheme and other charities she strongly supports include Breast Cancer awareness, the Injured Jockeys' Association, Variety Club of Great Britain, the Royal British Legion/ex-servicemens' associations, and Guide Dogs for the Blind and Disabled.
Busy then. But yet to realise a long-time ambition. Panto!
Background and training
Training: Avid newscutter training 2009/2010. Reporter writing course 2009. Fully conversant with switch and omni talkback.
Early days: Floor manager and researcher - BBC, Channel 4 and ITV. BBC trained presenter; radio reporter - Piccadilly Radio, Manchester; journalist course - Blackburn College.
Emma trained with the BBC, starting as a radio reporter, then worked her way through the TV ranks of runner, floor manager, researcher and 1st AD before being offered a screen test. Light Entertainment guru Paul Jackson and Jasper Carrott's agent kick-started her TV career and she has worked alongside world class names past and present, ranging from Michael Crawford, Norman Wisdom and Sir Cliff Richard to present day actors like Jude Law, comedians, pop idols and soap personalities.