Georgia Thomson sky sports

Georgia Thomson is actually a name that every Sky Sports news viewers associate with. An integral part of the Sky Sports Team at since 2001, she is a name that one associates with all major sporting events. From the US Open Tennis Championship towards the A1 Grand Prix, the Grand Prix Masters, Speedway World Cup, Race of Champions and Americas Cup, she has been there to cover all major sporting events.

Georgia Thomson, popularly often known as Georgie Thompson, lives in Essex. Educated at Queenswood Boarding School, she displayed her interest in sports from a very young age. She took part in several international junior tennis championships representing England. She proceeded to study Broadcast Journalism with the University of Leeds graduating in 1999. Before moving to Sky Sports in 2001, she worked to be a production assistant at GMTV.

A self confessed motor racing addict, Georgia attributes her attraction to fast cars and motor racing to her father who built the same passion that he had for cars into his daughter. She believes that A1Grand Prix has the potential to become as popular as the F1. However she also feels that it will take time for this to take place. With multiple channels available for viewing, it gets that much tougher to nail viewers if everything is not satisfactory enough. Hence she feels that given some time and effort A1 GP has a chance of becoming as popular as the Formula One.

She defends the A1GP by proclaiming that the competitiveness in A1GP is above everything else. Classifying it is actually as edge of your seat stuff, she says this is really what motor racing is all about.

Georgia Thomson considers herself as a bit of a spender. Her investments are cautiously managed by her financial advisor that has a major say in deciding her investments. Her three bedroom terraced property in Chelsea cost 500,000. In today’s day, the property is estimated at 800,000. Her love for property again goes back into her childhood. Her father profession that of a property developer, made sure they moved several times, every time to a larger house or to a renovation project. The transformations that every property underwent drilled into her the desire for climbing up the property ladder.

Aside from property, she’s now begun considering other investment options including pension funds and makes annual contributions to individual savings accounts. Healthcare is the one other element of investment that she has now considered. She has purchased an extensive medical health insurance policy that covers all critical illnesses as there is a history of cancer in her own family.

On a lighter note it her Mini Cooper convertible that she loves zipping around in. On the occasional warm and sunny day, she loves to drive around with the cars hood down and feel the wind in her hair.

A successful anchorwoman, she’s had the privilege of interviewing several stalwarts in sports like Ian Botham, Sven Goran, Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski.