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 a name that one associates with all foremost sporting actions. From the US Open Tennis Championship to the A1 Grand Prix, the Grand Prix Masters, Speedway World Cup, Race of Champions and Americas Cup, she has been there to cover all foremost sporting actions.

Georgia Thomson, popularly also known as Georgie Thompson, lives in Essex. Educated at Queenswood Boarding School, she showed her interest in sports from a very young age. She participated in several international junior tennis championships representing England. She went on to study 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 quick 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 well loved as the Formula One. But she also feels that it will take time for that to happen. With multiple channels available for viewing, it becomes that much more hard to nail viewers if things are not satisfactory enough. Hence she feels that given a small time and effort A1 GP has a chance of becoming as well loved as the Formula One.

She defends the A1GP by saying that the competitiveness in A1GP is above everything else. Classifying it certainly as edge of your seat stuff, she says that this is what motor racing is all in this area.

Georgia Thomson considers herself to be a bit of a person paying. Her investments are cautiously managed by her financial advisor who has a huge say in deciding her investments. Her three bedroom terraced property in Chelsea cost £500,000. In the present day, the property is estimated at £800,000. Her like for property again goes back into her childhood. Her father profession that of a property developer, made sure that they went quite a number of times, each time to a larger house or to a restoration project. The transformations that each property underwent instilled in her the passion 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 now considered. She has invested in a comprehensive shape 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 likes zipping around in. On the occasional warm and sunny day, she likes to drive around with the car’s hood down and feel the wind in her hair.

A successful anchorwoman, she has had the privilege of interviewing several stalwarts in sports such as Ian Botham, Sven Goran, Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski.

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