She has presented for Sky News, GMTV, Classic FM, BBC Radio London, TalkRadio and is a regular contributor to TalkTV launched in April 2022.
[citation needed] Smith began her career as a reporter and feature writer on the Peterborough Evening Telegraph in 1977.
In 1984 she joined Radio Trent as a reporter/presenter and then worked for Central Television as press officer for documentaries and drama.
In July 2010, Smith presented BBC Radio 2's Kiri Prize, a nationwide hunt to find an opera star.
[citation needed] Smith has also covered the Friday Night Arts Show on BBC Radio 2 when Claudia Winkleman was away.
[12] As of September 2024, Smith is presenting the morning programme on Magic Classical - a rebranding of Scala Radio 1993 – 2009 On 19 April 1993, Smith began her career on GMTV as the show's main newsreader, as well as becoming the main presenter of the Reuters News Hour alongside Anne Davies, Matthew Lorenzo and Ross Kelly.
On 3 March 2010, it had emerged from Smith's Twitter account that she had decided to leave the programme after 17 years of being the main face of the show.
Smith married journalist Tony Birtley on Saturday 12 May 1984 at St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, the reception was held in Colsterworth;[13] the best man was Daily Star reporter George Dearsley.
[16] Her parents Graham and Christine, who married in 1955,[17] lived in Colsterworth in the 1980s; her father had an engineering business in Grantham, later moving to Cyprus in the late 1980s.