{"id":143471,"date":"2023-09-25T14:53:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T14:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/?p=143471"},"modified":"2023-09-25T14:53:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T14:53:59","slug":"how-laura-woods-went-from-work-experience-girl-to-power-woman-worth-an-estimated-2m-with-her-eyes-on-us-stardom-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/sport\/how-laura-woods-went-from-work-experience-girl-to-power-woman-worth-an-estimated-2m-with-her-eyes-on-us-stardom-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"How Laura Woods went from work experience girl to 'power woman' worth an estimated \u00a32m with her eyes on US stardom | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHE began her career as a humble work experience girl but has risen through the ranks to become one of the most powerful women on TV.<\/p>\n

Laura Woods has amassed an estimated \u00a32million fortune after becoming lead presenter for the Champions League and boxing coverage.<\/p>\n


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She now has her eyes on stardom in the US after heading up a female-fronted team for TNT Sports, formerly BT Sport.<\/p>\n


It means the phenomenal blonde from Dagenham has now scored an unusual feat by fronting sports shows for ITV, Amazon Prime<\/p>\n

But unlike many female sports presenters who have had a nepo baby leg up\u00a0Laura\u00a0has shot to the top on her own merits.<\/p>\n

Now she's been named one of Karen Millen's 'Power<\/span> Women'. <\/p>\n

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In an interview with the brand, she said: "Passion for sport started for me when I was very very young. <\/p>\n

"It was something my mum threw me and my brothers into all the time to get us out the house."<\/p>\n

She adds that she always wanted to combine her love of football with telly, but notes: "I always remember one of the first pieces of 'advice' I was ever told was from a producer, and he had heard that I wanted to be a presenter…<\/p>\n

"And he said, 'one piece of advice is, for women, you have a much higher height to fall from, so you have to be better.'" <\/p>\n

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The blonde beauty concedes that is is unfair, "but it's not a level playing field yet", and it helped her to "be better, work harder, and do all her research". <\/p>\n

Today the Arsenal supporter has 720K followers on Instagram and 760.6K followers on X (formerly Twitter). <\/p>\n

Yet\u00a0Laura\u2019s only introduction to her sports profession was down to her \u201cfootball fans\u201d dad and two older brothers. <\/p>\n

She has said in the past that she always knew she wanted to be involved in sports media. <\/p>\n

Little wonder then that she went on to study print journalism at Kingston University. <\/p>\n

While student peers were downing jaeger bombs\u00a0Laura\u00a0started as she meant to go on and was compiling match reports for the student newspaper.<\/p>\n


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Fate intervened for\u00a0Laura. She went travelling while at uni and met a traveller who had completed work experience at Sky Sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Laura\u00a0got the contact details of the HR department and bagged herself a week\u2019s worth of work experience on Soccer AM.<\/p>\n

"I had already done a week\u2019s work experience on a newspaper and decided it wasn\u2019t for me,\u201d\u00a0Laura\u00a0has said. <\/p>\n

"As soon as I went into TV it was like colour – everything was exciting and new. The people, the personalities, the characters."<\/p>\n

After uni\u00a0Laura\u00a0climbed the TV ranks at Sky. <\/p>\n

She started out as a runner before becoming an editorial assistant. <\/p>\n

She worked across all Sky shows and began to produce them. While she knew the job behind the camera, it was the job in front of the camera that\u00a0Laura\u00a0coveted.<\/p>\n

"Live producing was amazing but it didn\u2019t give me the buzz I\u2019d hoped for,\u201d\u00a0Laura\u00a0continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I basically started making YouTube videos because I couldn\u2019t get the opportunity on camera.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The blonde beauty on the cover of Fabulous Magazine in July<\/span>Credit: News group Newspapers Limited<\/span><\/figcaption>

Laura\u2019s YouTube series \u2018Off the Oche\u2019 eventually found its way on to Sky Darts. And from there her career in front of the camera began.<\/p>\n

The FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup presenter drive to present live meant that she covered everything from bowling to kids sports, explaining:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me it didn\u2019t matter what sport I was working on, I would still get that same level of excitement,\u201d\u00a0Laura\u00a0says. <\/p>\n

"It\u2019s live, you never know what\u2019s going to happen. You\u2019re watching people perform at a top level.<\/p>\n

For those naysayers who reckon Larua has only got to where she is today thanks to being a woman – she has this to say:<\/p>\n

\u201cSocial media will tell you all the time you\u2019re there because you\u2019re a woman, you\u2019re this, you\u2019re that.\u201d <\/p>\n

She continues: \u201cIt took me 10 years to work to get to this point. People aren\u2019t just going to put you on screen if you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since then\u00a0Laura\u00a0has trailblazed sports broadcasting with the likes of Gary Neville, holding her own as the main presenter for talkSPORT's breakfast show, presenting Monday to Wednesday. <\/p>\n

A three-year gig that only finished earlier this year in June.<\/p>\n

Away from the camera\u00a0Laura\u00a0adopts a work hard play harder motto. <\/p>\n

This year she has clocked up trips to Glasto, Ascot, Wimbledon and Cheltenham. <\/p>\n

Yet when it comes to female solidarity\u00a0Laura\u00a0is the first to admit she looks up to fellow female sports presenters.<\/p>\n

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"Gabby was the trailblazer for me,"\u00a0Laura\u00a0says. <\/p>\n

"There are so many other amazing women but I remember Gabby more so as a youngster, thinking she had this way about her, she looked so relaxed."<\/p>\n

The French bull dog owner who regularly shares pictures of her pooch online has been single for the last five years. <\/p>\n

She gave a red card to her eight-year relationship with former England rugby player Alex Corbisiero just before she turned 30.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cIt was my decision \u2013 it was the right one and I\u2019ve never regretted it. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d lived in each other\u2019s pockets and breaking up with him felt like coming up for air.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next<\/span> thing for us was probably marriage and having kids. And I do want that one day \u2013 I love being in love and I love kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

She then went on to explain that she is now focusing on her career since her breakup.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cI\u2019ve prioritised work because I love that too and my ambitions are important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for her dating life today? She keeps schtum:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am single, but I\u2019m also dating,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s a part of my life I\u2019ve learned to keep private.\u201d<\/p>\n

Financial media money boffins reckon the presenter is today worth a cool \u00a32 million. <\/p>\n

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