Georgia Thomson sky sports reports
Georgia Thomson is a name that every Sky Sports news viewers associate with. An integral part of the Sky Sports Team at since 2001, she is an identity that a person associates with all major sports activities. 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 already been through it to cover all major sporting events.
Georgia Thomson, popularly also known as Georgie Thompson, lives in Essex. Educated at Queenswood Boarding School, she displayed her interest in sports at a very early age. She participated in several international junior tennis championships representing England. She went on to learn Broadcast Journalism with the University of Leeds graduating in the year 1999. Before moving to Sky Sports in 2001, she worked as 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 a similar passion that he had for cars into his daughter. She believes that A1Grand Prix has the possibility to become as popular as the F1. However she also feels that it’s going to take some time for this to happen. With multiple channels accessible for viewing, it gets that much more difficult to nail viewers if everything is not satisfactory enough. Hence she feels that given a little time and effort A1 GP carries a chance of becoming as popular as the F1.
She defends the A1GP by saying that the competitiveness in A1GP is above anything else. Classifying it definitely as edge of your seat stuff, she says this is what motor racing is about.
Georgia Thomson considers herself to be 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 house is estimated at 800,000. Her passion for property again goes back into her childhood. Her father profession that of a property developer, ensured that they moved several times, every time to some larger house or even to a renovation project. The transformations that every property underwent drilled into her the passion for climbing up the property ladder.
Apart from property, she has now begun considering other investment options such as pension funds and makes annual contributions to individual savings accounts. Healthcare is the one other aspect of investment that she has now considered. She’s purchased a comprehensive medical health insurance policy that covers all critical illnesses as there is a history of cancer in her 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 all the cars hood down and feel the wind in her hair.
A prosperous anchorwoman, she’s had the privilege of interviewing several stalwarts in sports such as Ian Botham, Sven Goran, Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski.