Georgie thompson sky sports news report anchor lady
Georgie Thompson is regarded as one of the most well-known anchorwoman of sky sports news. Born in September 1977, she presents the 3-7pm slot on Sky Sports News.
A sportswoman herself, she’s represented England in international junior tennis championships when she was studying in Queenswood Boarding School. Having completed her education with the University of Leeds where she learnt Broadcast Journalism, Georgie Thompson began her career being a production assistant for GMTV.
She shifted from GMTV in January 2001 to Sky Sports News and has since covered numerous sports activities including the US Open Tennis Championships, A1 Grand Prix, Grand Prix Masters, Speedway World Cup, Americas Cup as well as the Race of Champions. She is additionally a confident surfer and an ardent Fullham F.C. supporter.
Her highly tight agenda doesn’t enable her to spend a lot of time on the tennis courts now. But when she does get the time to hit the courts, she does compete but now its just with herself. Having played at a competitive level for almost 12 times in a year in past times, she gets dissatisfied if she doesn’t level with her standards.
Voted amongst the top 100 Sexisiest Women in the Word by the British Mens Magazine, FHM, Georgie Thompson had humble beginnings. The daughter of a property developer, the importance of work ethics and hard work were drilled into her at the very early age. Additionally, it ingrained in her the significance of investing in property and subsequently of climbing within the property ladder.
She is now the happy owner of a three bedroom terrace home in Chelsea. Though she feels that the property is considerably large as she is not married and does not have kids, it has been a huge gain for her at a purely investment viewpoint. Initially costing around 500,000 pounds during the time of purchase, the property is now valued at almost 800,000.
Georgie Thompson does not consider herself to be really good with money and making it work. Following her fathers advice, she lets her financial advisors make all the important decisions on her behalf. Having focused on property for a long time, she’s now thought about other investment options too keeping her future under consideration. Her financial advisors have shown her the necessity of keeping money aside for major future expenses such as education expenses for when she has children.
She has also picked up an extensive insurance plan that covers her for critical illness and BUPA healthcare. Although she finds critical illness cover quite expensive, she realized that having a family history of cancer she would not desire to put a price on her health.
Although she loves earning money, handling money and number crunching are not a popular pastime with her. On the insistence of Sky News she set up a private limited company for herself a few years back. Along with invoicing Sky News for her contract she makes certain there is a steady stream of income coming in from other sources like event hosting, writing and submitting articles and corporate speaking.