Georgia Thomson sky sports reports
Georgia Thomson is a name that all Sky Sports news viewers associate with. A part of the Sky Sports Team at since 2001, she is an identity 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 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 fascination with sports from a very early age. She took part in several international junior tennis championships representing England. She proceeded to learn Broadcast Journalism with the University of Leeds graduating in 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 the same passion which 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 some time for this to happen. With multiple channels accessible for viewing, it gets that much tougher to nail viewers if everything is not satisfactory enough. Hence she feels that given a little time and effort A1 GP carries a prospect of becoming as popular as the F1.
She defends the A1GP by saying that the competitiveness in A1GP is above everything else. Classifying it definitely as edge of your seat stuff, she says that this is 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 big 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 extends 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 each property underwent drilled into her the passion for climbing up the property ladder.
Apart from property, she’s now begun looking at 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 considered. She has purchased an extensive 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 likes to drive around with the cars hood down and feel the wind in her hair.
A prosperous anchorwoman, she has had the privilege of interviewing several stalwarts in sports like Ian Botham, Sven Goran, Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski.