Georgia Thomson is actually 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 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 been there to cover all major sporting events.
Georgia Thomson, popularly often 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 proceeded to learn Broadcast Journalism at the University of Leeds graduating in the year 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 that 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 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 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 is actually as edge of your seat stuff, she says this is really 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 property is estimated at 800,000. Her passion for property again goes back into her childhood. Her father profession that of a property developer, ensured that they moved quite a number of times, every time to a larger house or to a renovation project. The transformations that every property underwent instilled in her the passion for climbing up the property ladder.
Apart from property, she’s now begun considering other investment options including pension funds and makes annual contributions to individual savings accounts. Healthcare is another aspect of investment that she has considered. She has purchased an extensive health insurance policy that covers all critical illnesses as there has been 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 loves to drive around with the cars hood down and have 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.
