‘We really loved you’ Tom Bradby has led tributes to Emily Morgan as the presenter is laid to rest just over a month after dying of lung cancer.
Morgan worked at the broadcaster for 23 years, and played a major role in covering the COVID-19 pandemic as its Health and Science Editor.during her funeral, which was held on Wednesday at the same church in Gloucestershire where she married her husband Rob.
Attended by family, friends and colleagues, ITV News presenter Tom Bradby told those gathered that it was ‘such a joy knowing her, as a work colleague and as a friend’.‘There wasn’t a day that I spent with her where she didn’t bring a great deal of joy and epic amounts of laughter into my life. ‘Nothing gave me as much joy – few things in my working life have given me as much joy – as watching her fall in love with Rob and have two wonderful daughters who she talked about constantly and adored,’ he continued.
‘So finally then, what I can really say, is a version of what I said in my tribute on News at Ten to Emily, farewell my friend, we did know you and we really loved you.’ In a statement posted by her former employer, ITV said that while Morgan was extremely proud of her work, her ‘greatest source of pride was her family, including her two young daughters’.‘She told many colleagues at work that she wanted to be remembered, not as a journalist, but as a mother, wife, sister, daughter and friend,’ it continued.
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