Beth Rigby Biography
Beth Rigby is a journalist from the United Kingdom. She has worked with Sky News from 2016, and on April 12th 2019, she got promoted to political editor. Rigby before then served at the Financial Times and The Times as a newspaper journalist.
Beth Rigby Age
Her official name is Elizabeth Frances Rigby. She was born in 1976 in Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom. She is 45 years old as of 19th February 2021.
Beth Rigby Family
Her father happened to be an entrepreneur, and her mother was a school principal. Her mother passed on at the age of 62 from lung cancer, and her brother Alex passed on at the age of 42 from thymic carcinoma.
Beth Rigby Education
She went to Beaconsfield High School, a girls’ grammar school in Buckinghamshire, where she was raised. Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, gifted Rigby a first in social and political science. She furthered her education and earned a master’s degree in economics and development studies from the University of London’s Institute of Latin American Studies.
Beth Rigby Marriage
Angelo Acanfora is the name of her handsome and loving husband. The two have been blessed with two children together. Come 2016, her husband called it quits with his job as a graphic designer to be a stay-at-home dad.
Beth Rigby Weight Loss
She revealed her plans to quit TV soon because she was getting too old as far as her body weight was concerned. She dresses up in her bob, puts on so much makeup, and wears her red lipstick. That’s how she gets to cop with it. She has become more enlightened on her weight as a result of it. She loves eating, that is why she works out very hard.
Beth Rigby Career
After her graduation, Rigby taught English in Portugal for about one year before getting to the Financial Times as a graduate trainee in the year 1998. Prior to becoming chief political correspondent in the year 2010 and deputy political editor in the month of January 2013, she served at the newspaper as a hedge fund correspondent, retail correspondent, and consumer industries editor.
She started her profession at The Times in the year 2015 as a media editor prior to joining Sky News in 2016 as a senior political correspondent before getting promoted as deputy political editor in the month of July 2018. She was called Political Editor in February 2019 and began on April 12th 2019, taking over from Faisal Islam, who got to BBC News as an economics editor. Rigby was removed from the air until March 2021 after allegations of violating London’s tier 2 coronavirus restrictions after he was spotted at a restaurant to celebrate Sky presenter Kay Burley’s birthday in December 2020.