Georgie Thompson is considered to be 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 has represented England in international junior tennis championships when 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 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 and the Race of Champions. She actually is additionally a keen 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 once she does get the time to hit the courts, she does compete however its only with herself. Having played at the competitive level for nearly 12 times in a year in past times, she gets dissatisfied if she doesn’t 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 value of work ethics and hard work were drilled into her at a very early age. Additionally, it ingrained in her the significance of investing in property and subsequently of climbing within the property ladder.
She’s the proud owner of a three bedroom terrace home in Chelsea. Although she feels that the property is substantially large as she’s not married and does not have any kids, it has been a big gain for her from a purely investment viewpoint. Initially costing approximately 500,000 pounds at the time of purchase, the exact property is currently valued at almost 800,000.
Georgie Thompson doesn’t consider herself for being 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 concentrated on property for a long time, she’s now thought about other investment options too keeping her future in mind. Her financial advisors have shown her the need of keeping money aside for significant 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 quite expensive, she realized that with a family history of cancer she would not want to put a value on her health.
Although she loves earning 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 several 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 such as event hosting, writing and submitting articles and corporate speaking.
