Georgie thompson sky sports media report anchor lady
Georgie Thompson is regarded as 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 with the University of Leeds where she studied Broadcast Journalism, Georgie Thompson started 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 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 plus an enthusiastic Fullham F.C. supporter.
Her extremely tight agenda doesn’t enable her to spend much time on the tennis courts now. But when she does get the a chance to hit the courts, she does compete however its just with herself. Having played at a competitive level for nearly 12 times in a year in the past, she gets dissatisfied if she does not level with her standards.
Voted among 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 value of work ethics and hard work were drilled into her at a very early age. It also ingrained in her the value of investing in property and subsequently of climbing within the property ladder.
She is the proud owner of a three bedroom terrace house in Chelsea. Though she feels that this property is considerably large as she is not married and does not have any 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 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 important decisions for her. Having focused on property for some time, she has now thought about other investment options as well 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 whenever she gets children.
This lady has also invested in a comprehensive insurance policy 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 want to put a price on her health.
Although she loves earning 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 such as event hosting, writing and submitting articles and corporate speaking.