Georgie Thompson is considered to be one of the most well-known 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 completed her education with the University of Leeds where she studied Broadcast Journalism, Georgie Thompson began her career as a production assistant for GMTV.
She shifted from GMTV in January 2001 to Sky Sports News and has now since covered many sporting events like 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 confident surfer and an enthusiastic Fullham F.C. supporter.
Her extremely busy schedule does not enable her to spend a lot of time on the tennis courts now. But when she does get the time to hit the courts, she does compete but now its just with herself. Playing at the competitive level for nearly 12 times each year in past times, she feels dissatisfied if she doesn’t level with her standards.
Voted amongst the top 100 Sexisiest Women from the Word by way of 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 up the property ladder.
She’s now the happy owner of a three bedroom terrace house in Chelsea. Though she feels that this property is substantially large as she is not married and does not have kids, this has been a big gain for her at a purely investment viewpoint. Initially costing around 500,000 pounds during the time of purchase, the property is now valued at almost 800,000.
Georgie Thompson does not consider herself to be 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 has now started looking at other investment options as well keeping her future under consideration. Her financial advisors have shown her the necessity of keeping money aside for major future expenses like education expenses whenever she has children.
This lady has also invested in an extensive insurance plan that covers her for critical illness and BUPA healthcare. Although she finds critical illness cover quite expensive, she realized that with a family history of cancer she did not desire 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 set up a private limited company for herself a few years back. Along with invoicing Sky News for her contract she makes sure there’s a steady stream of revenue arriving in from other sources such as event hosting, writing articles and corporate speaking.
