She was the face of Sky Sports News for over a decade, but now presenter Georgie Thompson's life looks very different.
The broadcaster won a host of fans with her presenting style and bubbly personality, while she was also named as one of the world's sexiest women during her time on the channel.
After joining Sky in 2001, she covered countless sporting events including several tennis and motor racing championships, while she also helped to break some of the biggest stories of the day in her regular presenting role.
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However, Thompson stepped down from the role in 2011 before leaving the broadcaster altogether a couple of years later. Since then, she has spent much of the last decade off our screens and out of the limelight.
At 47 years old, she now has a famous husband and two children, as well as a new name and some exciting projects away from the TV studio. Here's what you need to know.
Famous husband and new name
During her time on Sky Sports, Thompson claimed she would never date a sportsman as it would "only bring her grief".
However, tears later, the presenter began a relationship with one of the most successful British sportsmen of all time, having met legendary Olympic sailor Sir Ben Ainslie at a corporate event in 2011.
While she described the meeting as a "thunderbolt moment" in an interview with MailOnline in 2013, the pair were in "different places" at the time and it was a couple of years before they started dating.
"It made sense to be together and we haven’t looked back since," she gushed at the time. "It’s very special... he makes me very happy. I’m 5ft; he’s 6ft, and it’s good because he puts a protective arm around me."
As for her claim of never dating a sportsman, Thompson added: ‘It was probably a very naive thing for me to have said as it’s now come back to bite me on the backside. But you can’t choose the person you’re going to fall in love with… and it just means I have to be in the gym a lot more than I used to be!"
In December 2014, the couple married in a stunning service at Hampton Court Palace, while their honeymoon to the British Virgin Islands saw them rescued by billionaire Richard Branson after four-time Olympic champion Ainslie's boat got into trouble off the coast of Necker Island.
After Ainslie was knighted in the 2013 New Year Honours, he became Sir Ben, with Thompson now known as Lady Ainslie.
Together, they have two children, welcoming daughter Bellatrix in 2016 and son Fox in 2021. However, their journey to conceive was not straightforward, with Bellatrix born via IVF and Fox via surrogacy as the couple went through seven rounds of IVF and three miscarriages.
Describing it as a "brutal" experience, Thompson said last year that their surrogacy journey "nearly broke us" but has ultimately "made us stronger" as they spoke out to help rid some of the stigma around it.
“You hear the word ‘surrogacy’ used a lot in a negative context these days,” she told the Telegraph. “People feel like it’s something celebrities do because they can afford to, like it’s some sort of trolley-dash, buying a baby off the shelf. But it’s just so wrong.
"When we started out on this journey, the last thing we were thinking was ‘Let’s have a baby via surrogacy’. And I’m so grateful that we had the resources to do it, but it’s brutal. Absolutely brutal. You only ever contemplate it when absolutely everything else has failed and there’s no other outcome that’s positive.”
She added: "Ultimately, I guess, we feel very proud of the journey we’ve gone on together. That’s important for both Bellatrix and Fox in the future to know that we have always been honest about it, and that it was always our approach from the outset. It tells them something, too, about how grateful we are to have the family we have because it was against the odds.”
TV star ex-boyfriend
Ainslie is not the first famous partner that Thompson has had, with the Sky Sports News star previously dating Declan Donnelly of Ant and Dec fame.
After reportedly being introduced to each other by presenter Kirsty Gallagher, the couple dated for three years. As news of their relationship emerged, Thompson was teased by her TV colleagues who sprinkled her autocue script with jokes and was made to say lines including 'it's all hands on deck'.
While Donnelly is often teased for his 5ft 6in height, he towered over the dimunitive Thompson who stands at 5ft 2in.
In an interview at the time, the Sky Sports presenter said: "We have so much in common. Things are going brilliantly. I come from a happy home, so I want marriage and kids. I want a football team worth of kids!'
However, just a few months later, Donnelly ended the relationship due to being reluctant to settle down, with the split reportedly coming "out of the blue" for the "devastated" Thompson.
She later told the Mirror that the break-up had been "painful", adding: "'It’s been tough, it’s really tough. It’s a really hard thing to live out a painful break-up when you’re in the public eye. It hurts but we have to be grown-up.'
New projects
After leaving Sky Sports News in 2011, Thompson stayed with the broadcaster to become a presenter on Sky Sports F1, fronting Friday night magazine show The F1 Show and other coverage on race weekends.
However, she left that role in 2013 and moved to the United States to become a panellist on Regis Philbin's Fox Sports talk show Crowd Goes Wild. When that show aired for the final time the following year, she returned to the UK to present BBC Radio 5 Live's Saturday Morning comedy show Fighting Talk, sharing duties with comedian Josh Widdicombe.
Nowadays, Thompson works alongside her husband, launching performance supplement business ainslie + ainslie last year. Together, they have also hosted a hit podcast - now known as The ainslie + ainslie Performance People Podcast - since 2022.
Now in its 10th series, guests that have appeared on the podcast include Olympians Mo Farah, Paula Radcliffe and Emma Finucane, as well as other famous faces including Stanley Tucci, Lewis Hamilton and Gabby Logan.
