Emma Vardy(born February 12, 1981) is an award-winningBritishjournalistbased in London, United Kingdom. She is now aRepublic of IrelandCorrespondentatBBC News.^[2][10][11]

Emma Vardy grew up watchingfootballinSouthampton. She won ascholarshipto the Royal College of Music, but decided to pursue acareerinJournalisminstead. She attended University College Falmouth, graduating with a Master’s degree inBroadcast Journalism.^[9]

Emma Vardy began broadcasting career as a junior atSky News, working as an editorial assistant for Sky Sports.^[9]In July 2006, Vardy joined BBC Cornwall as a sports presenterPresenter.

Emma has covered the Cricket World Cup,Premier Leaguefootball,Champions Leaguefootball, the Rugby Lions Tour andFormula Oneauto racing.^[2]

From 2011-2017, Emma was a political reporter atBBC Newsand home affairs correspondent at BBC South. In 2017-2018 she was a political reporter atBBC. Since 2018, Emma has been an Ireland Correspondent atBBC News.

She covers bothNorthern Irelandand theRepublic of Irelandfor flagship news programmes. Her reports appear on the BBC Six and Ten o’clock news as well as onBBC World, the Today programme and other outlets.^[2]

She covers stories related to Politics, Home Affairs and Counter-Terrorism.^[17]She has around 30 thousand followers in twitter.^[1]

In 2006, Emma Vardy was nominated byFalmouth Universityas the Student Television Journalist of the Year.^[11]

In 2020, Vardy appeared in a spoof sex scene.

She filmed the clip with her amateur footballer boyfriendAaron Adam as part of a parody of Queen classic I Want to Break Free. The sex scene was one of the segments in a video made by Adams and friends from his team to raise money for NHS Charities Together’s Covid-19 appeal. The finished film was posted on Adams’ Twitter profile and the club’s Facebook page, with the message: ‘So here it is. Four weeks of lockdown… no football… and this is what happens.’^[18][19]

The video was then edited and reposted, this time with the top journalist’s bed scene removed.

A BBC spokesperson told Sunday Life: “This was intended to be light-hearted, but Emma accepts it was inappropriate and has removed the clip.”^[19]

According to his Twitter profile, @Mr_Bumcheeks, Vardy’s boyfriend Aaron Adams lives inBelfast,Northern Ireland. He is part of amateur football team Belfast Ravens.^[18]