37-year-old English broadcast journalist Sophy Arabella Ridge is well known for her worth with Sky News.
She is a very successful journalist and presenter, talented enough to land her morning talk show called Sophy Ridge on Sunday. It was launched in 2017 and broadcasts on Sunday mornings from 8:30 A.M. to 9:30 A.M.
Due to the success of Sophy Ridge on Sunday in 2022, she launched Sophy Ridge: The Take, which follows Sophy Ridge on Sunday. The Take is a half-hour program that reacts to the main program’s interviews.
Ridge is one of the most successful female journalists in British Media and has been called responsible for breaking the glass ceiling, a massive problem in media in the UK. A self-proclaimed feminist, Ridge is aware of her place in the public sphere and recently released a book called, The Women Who Shaped Politics to educate people about women’s role in British politics.
Who Is Sophy Ridge’s Husband Ben Griffiths?
Sophy Ridge is happily married to her husband, Ben Griffiths, with whom she has been married since 2014.
Sophy Ridge has remained relatively tight-lipped about her personal life for a media personality. Her attitude goes hand in hand with her brand of always being professional and letting nothing slip in the face of prejudicial scrutiny.
Her attitude is something she has carved and collated her entire career. It wasn’t until 2014 that she would let her persona slip and show the person within when she revealed to the world that she was engaged to her long-time boyfriend, Ben Griffiths 2014.
The couple married on 30th May 2014. Ridge’s husband, Ben Griffiths, is as tight-lipped as his spouse, and the public knows very little about him besides his profession as a newspaper writer.
The two have remained not necessarily secretive but less indulgent than most about their personal life. Given both media professions, it may surprise the public that the couple has gone so long without revealing much about their love affair.
However, the most revealing information the couple has informed the public is that in 2017 Sophy Ridge became pregnant with their first child.
The news became public after Ridge had to take a maternal leave from her show, Sophy Ridge, on Sunday. During her pregnancy, Niall Paterson fronted her show and rebranded it as Sunday with Niall Paterson.
Sophie returned some months later in 2018. However, she became pregnant again a couple of years later, in 2021, and a second child blessed the couple.
She had to retake a maternal leave, and this time Trevor Phillips occupied her slot and temporarily renamed it, Trevor Phillips, on Sunday.
The identity of both her children is kept secret and not mentioned in public. In her own words, though, Ridge is living a blissful married life.
Sophy Ridge Dating History
The public knows little about Sophy Ridge’s dating history before her husband, which might be by design.
A write-up by the Royal Television Society went into length about how Sophy Ridge, as a woman, had to break through the glass ceiling of British media to get to where she is now. After all, her first interview on Sophy Ridge on Sunday was with then Prime Minister Theresa May.
Having the prime minister of your country be the first interviewee in your show is quite an achievement; Sophy has only risen since then. Ridge’s interviews and interviewing style have been much celebrated in British media if the write-up by the Royal Television Society is to be believed.
In essence, Ridge is a celebrity, but a different type of celebrity as the focus of her fame is entirely on her professional achievements rather than aspects of her life.
Sophy Ridge Family and Ethnicity
As with every other aspect of her personal life, the information about Sophy Ridge’s parents has not been made entirely public.
However, journalism does not run in her family. Ridge has stated that she grew up in Richmond Upon Thames to two teacher parents and a younger brother.
She is British through and through, and her ethnicity is caucasian. Sophy’s desire to become a journalist came early, and she achieved that and much more.