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.
Laura Woods has amassed an estimated £2million fortune after becoming lead presenter for the Champions League and boxing coverage.
She now has her eyes on stardom in the US after heading up a female-fronted team for TNT Sports, formerly BT Sport.
It means the phenomenal blonde from Dagenham has now scored an unusual feat by fronting sports shows for ITV, Amazon Prime
But unlike many female sports presenters who have had a nepo baby leg up Laura has shot to the top on her own merits.
Now she's been named one of Karen Millen's 'Power Women'.
In an interview with the brand, she said: "Passion for sport started for me when I was very very young.
"It was something my mum threw me and my brothers into all the time to get us out the house."
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...
"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.'"
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".
Today the Arsenal supporter has 720K followers on Instagram and 760.6K followers on X (formerly Twitter).
Yet Laura's only introduction to her sports profession was down to her “football fans” dad and two older brothers.
She has said in the past that she always knew she wanted to be involved in sports media.
Little wonder then that she went on to study print journalism
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