Georgie thompson sky sports media report anchor person
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 while she was studying in Queenswood Boarding School. Having finished her education from 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 now since covered numerous sporting events including the US Open Tennis Championships, A1 Grand Prix, Grand Prix Masters, Speedway World Cup, Americas Cup and the Race of Champions. She actually is additionally a confident surfer plus an enthusiastic Fullham F.C. supporter.
Her extremely tight agenda does not permit her to spend much time on the tennis courts now. But when she does find the time to hit the courts, she does compete but now its only with herself. Playing at the competitive level for almost 12 times in a year in the past, she gets dissatisfied if she does not level with her standards.
Voted amongst the top 100 Sexisiest Women from the Word by way of the British Mens Magazine, FHM, Georgie Thompson had modest beginnings. The daughter of a property developer, the value of work ethics and hard work were drilled into her at a very young age. It also ingrained in her the value of investing in property and subsequently of climbing up the property ladder.
She is the happy owner of a three bedroom terrace home in Chelsea. Though she feels that this property is considerably large as she is not married and doesn’t have kids, this has been a big gain for her from a purely investment point of view. Initially costing around 500,000 pounds during 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 all the crucial decisions for her. Having concentrated on property for some time, she has now started looking at 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 such as education expenses whenever she gets children.
This lady has also invested in a comprehensive insurance plan that covers her for critical illness and BUPA healthcare. Even though she finds critical illness cover very costly, she realized that having a family history of cancer she did not want to put a value on her health.
Although she loves making money, handling money and number crunching are usually 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 sure there is a steady stream of income arriving in from other sources like event hosting, writing and submitting articles and corporate speaking.