THE sports activities pundit seems sizzling in purple as she reveals all about her courting life.
The 35-year-old ITV sports activities presenter, Laura Woods speaks to Fabulous’ Superstar Editor Kelly Allen to disclose the best challenges she’s needed to overcome in her profession and her courting life.
Laura Woods dishes on profession challenges and her love lifeCredit score: Mark Hayman/ Information Group Ltd
She is at the moment gearing as much as current the Fifa Ladies’s World Cup for ITVCredit score: Getty
Laura seems fresh-faced as she sits down to talk regardless of solely getting house a number of hours earlier than from Glastonbury Competition.
The blonde magnificence has just lately introduced she will probably be leaving talkSPORT’s flagship breakfast present, co-hosting alongside Ally McCoist from 6am to 10am.
She’s since gone on to scoop a number of awards for her protection, together with Finest Speech Breakfast Present on the ARIAS in 2021, earlier than just lately deciding to step down. Her final present aired on June 28.
“I actually tried to not cry doing the announcement, as a result of I simply didn’t need to let the emotion take over,” she admits.
“It was a very exhausting choice [to leave] however these hours are brutal, and I felt prefer it was the suitable time.
“Folks say it’s necessary to exit on a excessive, and the breakfast present is in an excellent place in the intervening time.”
Though Laura likes to maintain her private life non-public, she reveals that leaving the present could also be helpful to her love life.
Getting up at foolish o’clock to host the breakfast present hasn’t been conducive to her love life both, and Laura has been single after splitting from former England rugby participant Alex Corbisiero simply earlier than she turned 30.
She’s dated since, however hasn’t had time to pursue something severe.
“I’m single, however I’m additionally courting,” she says. “That’s part of my life that I’ve discovered to maintain non-public.
“I don’t need to put my complete life on the market for everyone to see. I need to maintain some issues like ‘that individual’ extra sacred.
“However sure, it’s exhausting. It’s like: ‘Would you wish to go for brunch… after I’ve had a nap?’” she laughs. “It’s had a large impact on numerous my life.”
Reminiscing on her time at talkSports and a few of the largest challenges in her profession, she says: “The final time I spoke to Fabulous in 2020, I’d simply began on the present and I used to be feeling swamped.
“It was in the course of Covid and there was no precise sport to speak about.
“It was the most important problem of my profession, and of my life on the time. I used to be residing alone and I felt very remoted, very lonely and like I couldn’t present the world what I may do with that present.
“I didn’t have any of the instruments I wanted, however I discovered to work by means of it. Then sport got here again. It was unbelievable — I’ve by no means felt something like that. It was simply such a reduction.”
Having that point in that area to develop into myself and be my very own individual was a present that I didn’t know I used to be being given on the very starting
Laura Woods
She actually is leaving on a excessive after successful over their 3.6 million listeners, who had been apprehensive about her changing seasoned professional Alan Brazil.
“I positively suppose it’s made me a extra assured individual and introduced me to the place I’m now,” she says.
“It’s such a cliché, however simply being your self is your largest power.
“It’s the one factor you may have that separates you from anyone else, so having that point in that area to develop into myself and be my very own individual was a present that I didn’t know I used to be being given on the very starting, so I’ll miss it loads.”
Laura will type a part of ITV’s presenting group for the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup.
Whereas the match is going down in Australia and New Zealand, Laura will probably be in England reporting from the studio with a really anti-social time distinction.
As for what’s developing career-wise after the World Cup, Laura shakes her head when requested about rumours she’s signed an enormous deal to take over from Jake Humphrey on TNT Sports activities (beforehand BT Sport).
“I do know, I’ve seen numerous articles, however I haven’t signed something,” she says. “There are a few provides, however I’ve obtained a wonderful month off now the place I can sit down and begin planning the subsequent issues.
“I don’t need to rush into something. I’ve by no means been in a position to have that privilege in my life earlier than. By no means. I’ve at all times been 100 miles per hour in my profession.
“I used to have this work ethic of taking completely all the pieces, as a result of I knew that it will educate me one thing. I didn’t care what it was, I’d do it, and it was good.
“It positively obtained me to the place I’m now. However now, I’ve earned the suitable to take a step again and suppose: ‘What is true for me subsequent?’
“I’d actually like to get wholesome. I would like to have the ability to train extra and take my canine for lengthy walks. I’m simply bored with feeling drained.
“I need to give my household and associates extra of my consideration. I actually need to prioritise that a part of my life extra. I’d wish to have a bit extra of a routine for myself and take into consideration what’s subsequent, and I need to have a transparent head to have the ability to try this.”
I management what makes me pleased, and who I need to spend my time with.
Laura Woods
The Laura of in the present day is far more confident and assured than the final time we spoke. Maybe as a result of she has realised she is greater than able to her job and has proved the doubters flawed.
She nods: “I’ve grown up. I’m 35 now, and I see the world in another way to how I did earlier than. It’s so totally different to 10 years in the past and the place I believed my life and my confidence ranges had been. I’m a lot extra comfy in my pores and skin now.
“I’ve skilled numerous issues and my profession has moved ahead. I work loads on who I need to be. I management what makes me pleased, and who I need to spend my time with.
“I’ve discovered a lot from individuals round me. Valuing your self and your relationships — in the end that’s what it’s all about for me.”
ITV’s protection of the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup begins on Thursday July 20.
Coming off the breakfast present could give Laura extra time to search out loveCredit score: Mark Hayman/ Information Group Ltd