Georgie thompson sky sports news report anchor gal
Georgie Thompson is considered to be 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 completed her education with the University of Leeds where she studied 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 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 also a confident surfer plus an enthusiastic Fullham F.C. supporter.
Her extremely busy schedule doesn’t permit 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 only with herself. Playing at the competitive level for almost 12 times each year in the past, she gets disappointed if she does not 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. It also 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 home in Chelsea. Though she feels that this property is considerably large as she’s not married and doesn’t have kids, this has been a huge gain for her from a purely investment point of view. Initially costing around 500,000 pounds at the time of purchase, the property is currently 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 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 gets children.
She has also picked up a comprehensive insurance policy that covers her for critical illness and BUPA healthcare. Even though she finds critical illness cover quite expensive, she realized that with a family history of cancer she did not want to put a price 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 several 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 articles and corporate speaking.