Georgie Thompson is regarded as one of 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 while she was studying in Queenswood Boarding School. Having finished her education from the University of Leeds where she learnt Broadcast Journalism, Georgie Thompson began her career as a production assistant for GMTV.
She moved 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 also a confident surfer and an ardent Fullham F.C. supporter.
Her extremely tight agenda doesn’t permit her to spend much time on the tennis courts now. But once she does find the time to hit the courts, she does compete but now its only with herself. Playing at a competitive level for nearly 12 times each year in past times, she gets dissatisfied if she doesn’t level with her standards.
Voted amongst the top 100 Sexisiest Women from the Word by the British Mens Magazine, FHM, Georgie Thompson had humble beginnings. The daughter of a property developer, the importance of work ethics and hard work were drilled into her at a very young age. It also ingrained in her the significance of investing in property and subsequently of climbing up the property ladder.
She’s the happy owner of a three bedroom terrace house 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 at a purely investment point of view. Initially costing around 500,000 pounds at the time of purchase, the exact property is currently valued at almost 800,000.
Georgie Thompson does not consider herself to be very good with money and making it work. Following her fathers advice, she lets her financial advisors make every one of the crucial decisions for her. Having focused on property for some 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 significant future expenses such as education expenses for when she gets children.
She has also picked up a comprehensive insurance plan that covers her for critical illness and BUPA healthcare. Even though she finds critical illness cover quite expensive, she realized that having a family history of cancer she did not want to put a price on her health.
Although she loves making money, handling money and number crunching are not a favorite 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 sure there is a steady stream of revenue arriving in from other sources like event hosting, writing and submitting articles and corporate speaking.