Georgie Thompson is regarded as just about 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’s 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 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 many sports activities 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 also a keen surfer and an enthusiastic Fullham F.C. supporter.
Her extremely busy schedule does not permit her to spend a lot of time on the tennis courts now. But once she does get the a chance to hit the courts, she does compete however its only with herself. Having played at the competitive level for nearly 12 times each year in past times, she gets disappointed 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 modest 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’s the happy owner of a three bedroom terrace home in Chelsea. Though she feels that the property is substantially large as she’s not married and does not have any kids, this has been a huge gain for her at a purely investment viewpoint. Initially costing approximately 500,000 pounds during the time of purchase, the exact property is currently 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 on her behalf. Having focused on property for some time, she’s now started looking at other investment options as well keeping her future under consideration. Her financial advisors have shown her the need of keeping money aside for major future expenses such as education expenses for when she has children.
She has also invested in a comprehensive insurance policy 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 would not desire to put a price on her health.
Although she loves making money, handling money and number crunching are not a popular pastime with her. On the insistence of Sky News she put in place a private limited company for herself a few years back. Along with invoicing Sky News for her contract she makes certain there’s a steady stream of revenue coming in from other sources like event hosting, writing articles and corporate speaking.
