| Emma Freedman | |
| Birth Name: | Emma Jane Freedman |
| Birth Place: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Television and radio presenter |
| Years Active: | 2010−present |
Emma Freedman is an Australian television and radio personality, currently working as a host, presenter and roving reporter across Seven Sport since 2021. Freedman grew up on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne.[1] Freedman formerly co-hosted The Grill Team on Triple M Sydney. Prior to this, she was a weather presenter on Weekend Today and host of Sports Sunday on the Nine Network.
In 2010, Freedman joined Weekend Today as a weather presenter, replacing Felicity Whelan, after which she shared hosting duties with Steven Jacobs as a weather presenter for Today. She was a regular contributor to the Nine Network's coverage of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival for many years.[2] Freedman was also a regular sports presenter on the Nine Network's Wide World of Sports and Weekend Today. In December 2014, Freedman was made redundant from the Nine Network due to cost-cutting measures.[3]
In 2015, Freedman competed in and won the fifteenth season of Dancing with the Stars partnered with Aric Yegudkin.[4] [5]
In January 2015, Jules Lund and Freedman were announced as hosts of The Scoopla Show which aired on the Hit Network.[6] She was appointed national drive news presenter on Hit Network in September 2015.[7] In February 2016, she re-signed with Southern Cross Austereo to host the Hit 30 and Take 40 Australia across the Hit Network. In October 2016, she moved from the Hit Network to Triple M Sydney to co-host The Grill Team.[8]
In March 2016, Freedman rejoined Nine Network to host the Wide World of Sports.[9] She was appointed host of Sports Sunday in March 2017.
In March 2018, Freedman joined the team of presenters on Foxtel's Fox League channel.[10]
In 2021, she officially joined Seven Sport, hosting the 7mate feed of the morning coverage for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[11] In October 2021, she joined Seven's horse racing coverage hosting Sydney racing.
Freedman has quickly established herself as a major player in the Seven Sport stables, also working on their Winter Olympics, Commonwealth Games and now cricket, AFL Brownlow Medal & Grand Final and V8 Supercars.
Freedman's ballet-themed coming of age novel, Turning Pointes, was published by HarperCollins in 2016.[12]
Freedman is the daughter of five-time Melbourne Cup winning thoroughbred horse trainer Lee Freedman.[13]