Samantha Rose Simmonds (born 1972 or 1973[1]) is an English newsreader, television presenter and journalist.
[7] Whilst a student in Liverpool, she appeared as a contestant on the ITV television show Blind Date.
[8] After gaining a postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism from City University in London in 1995,[9] Simmonds worked as a reporter for local radio in Yorkshire before moving to London for a job as a producer on Channel Five News.
While presenting that channel, she was the first British journalist to break the story of Michael Jackson's death.
[10] Simmonds left Sky News in 2016, along with several other anchors, as part of a cost-cutting exercise.