Sophy Ridge

Career After graduation in 2006, Ridge was a trainee reporter at the News of the World. After completion of her training programmes she initially worked as a consumer affairs correspondent in 2009. She then gained a job as a political correspondent on Sky News in 2011. In the same year Ridge released her first book The Women Who Shaped Politics, a non-fiction book which discussed women's contribution to British politics. She also started writing columns in the tabloid newspaper Metro.

In 2022, she launched The Take with Sophy Ridge, a 30-minute discussion show based on the interviews that had featured in that week's edition. In 2024, she was involved in the 2024 general election coverage on Sky News.

She continued to present both programmes until July 2023 when it was announced that, from September 2023, she would present a new weeknight political programme for Sky News called Politics Hub. Her last day on Politics Hub was in October 2025. Ridge hosted the primetime show Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge for roughly two years, beginning in September 2023.

Ridge began presenting Sky News Breakfast in November 2025 alongside Wilfred Frost, who has been in the slot since the departure of Kay Burley in February 2025.

Awards Ridge won the MHP Communications 30 to Watch award in 2012, and was shortlisted as Young Journalist of the Year in the Royal Television Society Awards in 2013. In 2016, she won an award for Broadcast Journalist of the Year at the Words by Women awards.

In March 2025, Ridge won the award for Network Presenter of the Year at the 2025 Royal Television Society Journalism Awards.

Personal life Ridge has two children. She is a Sheffield Wednesday supporter.