Georgie thompson sky sports news report anchor woman
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 has represented England in international junior tennis championships while she was studying in Queenswood Boarding School. Having finished her education with the University of Leeds where she studied Broadcast Journalism, Georgie Thompson began her career as a production assistant for GMTV.
She moved from GMTV in January 2001 to Sky Sports News and has now since covered numerous sporting events 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 extremely tight agenda does not permit her to spend much time on the tennis courts now. But once she does find the time to hit the courts, she does compete but now its just with herself. Playing 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 among 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 value of work ethics and hard work were drilled into her at a 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 proud owner of a three bedroom terrace house in Chelsea. Although she feels that this property is considerably large as she is not married and does not have kids, this has been a huge gain for her at a purely investment point of view. Initially costing around 500,000 pounds at the time of purchase, the exact property is now valued at almost 800,000.
Georgie Thompson doesn’t consider herself for being very good with money and making it work. Following her fathers advice, she lets her financial advisors make every one of the crucial decisions on her behalf. Having concentrated on property for some time, she’s now started looking at other investment options too keeping her future in mind. Her financial advisors have shown her the necessity of keeping money aside for significant future expenses such as education expenses for when she has children.
She has also picked up a comprehensive insurance plan that covers her for critical illness and BUPA healthcare. Although she finds critical illness cover very costly, she realized that having a family history of cancer she did not desire to put a price on her health.
Although she loves making money, handling money and number crunching are not a favorite pastime with her. On the insistence of Sky News she put in place a private limited company for herself several years back. Along with invoicing Sky News for her contract she makes sure there is a steady stream of revenue coming in from other sources such as event hosting, writing and submitting articles and corporate speaking.