 In 2002, she made her debut in London's West End at the Theatre Royal Haymarket as a member of the Sir Peter Hall Company, acting alongside Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Jack Davenport and Googie Withers.In 2006 she spent four months as a guest artist at the National Theatre of Sweden, Dramaten, in a new play about Sven-Göran Eriksson.She began her journalism career at the age of 17 when she work shadowed Anna Ford on the BBC's "Six O'Clock News" and she went on to become the nation's youngest national newsreader when she began reading Saturday morning bulletins for GMTV at 25.