Georgia Thomson is a name that all Sky Sports news viewers associate with. A part of the Sky Sports Team at since 2001, she’s 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, this lady has been there 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 at a very young age. She participated in several international junior tennis championships representing England. She went on to learn Broadcast Journalism at the University of Leeds graduating in the year 1999. Before moving to Sky Sports in 2001, she worked to be 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 potential to become as popular as the Formula One. However she also feels that it will take time for that to happen. With multiple channels accessible for viewing, it becomes that much more difficult to nail viewers if things are 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 proclaiming that the competitiveness in A1GP is above anything else. Classifying it is actually as edge of your seat stuff, she says 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 who 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 love for property again extends back into her childhood. Her father profession that of a property developer, made sure that they moved several times, each time to some larger house or to a renovation project. The transformations that each property underwent instilled in her the desire for climbing up the property ladder.
Apart from property, she has now begun looking at other investment options such as pension funds and makes annual contributions to individual savings accounts. Healthcare is another aspect of investment that she has considered. She’s invested in an extensive 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 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 like Ian Botham, Sven Goran, Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski.