Georgia Thomson is actually a name that every Sky Sports news viewers associate with. A part of the Sky Sports Team at since 2001, she’s a name that one associates with 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 interest in sports at a very early age. She participated in several international junior tennis championships representing England. She went on to study 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 a similar passion that he had for cars into his daughter. She believes that A1Grand Prix has got the potential to become as popular as the Formula One. However she also feels that it’s going to take time for that 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 some time and energy A1 GP carries a prospect of becoming as popular as the Formula One.
She defends the A1GP by proclaiming 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 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 quite a number of times, each time to a larger house or even to a renovation project. The transformations that each property underwent instilled in her the passion for climbing up the property ladder.
Aside 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 invested in an extensive health insurance policy that covers all critical illnesses since there has been a history of cancer in her own 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 have 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.