Georgie thompson sky sports media report anchor woman

Georgie Thompson is considered to be one of the most popular 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 when she was studying in Queenswood Boarding School. Having finished her education from the University of Leeds where she studied Broadcast Journalism, Georgie Thompson started her career being a production assistant for GMTV.

She moved from GMTV in January 2001 to Sky Sports News and has now since covered many sports activities like 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 keen surfer and an ardent Fullham F.C. supporter.

Her extremely tight agenda doesn’t enable her to spend a lot of time on the tennis courts now. But once 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 nearly 12 times each year in past times, she gets disappointed if she doesn’t level with her standards.

Voted amongst the top 100 Sexisiest Women from 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 young age. It also ingrained in her the value of investing in property and subsequently of climbing within the property ladder.

She is now the proud owner of a three bedroom terrace home in Chelsea. Though she feels that the property is considerably large as she’s not married and doesn’t have any kids, this has been a huge gain for her at a purely investment viewpoint. Initially costing approximately 500,000 pounds at the time of purchase, the property is currently valued at almost 800,000.

Georgie Thompson doesn’t consider herself to be very good with money and making it work. Following her fathers advice, she lets her financial advisors make every one of the crucial decisions for her. Having focused on property for a long time, she’s now thought about other investment options too keeping her future in mind. Her financial advisors have shown her the need of keeping money aside for major future expenses like education expenses for when she has children.

This lady has also invested in an extensive insurance plan that covers her for critical illness and BUPA healthcare. Although she finds critical illness cover very costly, she realized that with 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 set up a private limited company for herself several years back. Along with invoicing Sky News for her contract she makes sure there’s a steady stream of revenue coming in from other sources like event hosting, writing and submitting articles and corporate speaking.