Emma Vardy (born February 12, 1981) is an award-winning British journalist based in London, United Kingdom. She is now a Republic of Ireland Correspondent at BBC News.^{[2] [10] [11]}

Emma Vardy grew up watching football in Southampton. She won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, but decided to pursue a career in Journalism instead. She attended University College Falmouth, graduating with a Master's degree in Broadcast Journalism. ^[9]

Emma Vardy began broadcasting career as a junior at Sky 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 League football, Champions League football, the Rugby Lions Tour and Formula One auto racing.^[2]

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

She covers both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland for flagship news programmes. Her reports appear on the BBC Six and Ten o'clock news as well as on BBC 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 by Falmouth University as 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 boyfriend Aaron 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 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is part of amateur football team Belfast Ravens.^[18]