Anna Botting

Anna Botting has been a TV journalist for 35 years. She has been a Sky News presenter for the past 30 years, and currently hosts the new prime-time evening show The Wrap. Botting was the lead presenter for both the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and the Coronation of King Charles III.

Her journalism has taken her around the world, including to Rome, where she covered the death of Pope Francis, and to Israel, for the aftermath of the October 7th Hamas attacks and the war on Gaza. She’s also covered the conflicts in Ukraine, Iraq, and Libya; the Japanese tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster; the disappearance of Madeleine McCann; and Deep Ocean Live, the first live programme broadcast from a submersible, hundreds of feet down in the Indian Ocean. 

Botting never intended to be a presenter, but her first ‘try-out’ in the studio saw an IRA bomb go off in London, a train derailment in Derbyshire, and a hijacked plane land at Stansted Airport, all in the first 20 minutes. There was no going back.