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Charlie Thomas

Charlie Thomas

Charlie Thomas is a Sky News sports presenter, and has been covering sport for twenty years. During that time he has reported on everything from cricket to skiing, football to Formula One. 

Charlie began his career in print journalism as news editor of the Hounslow Informer back in 1985.  After three years he decided to make the move into broadcasting and joined the Capital Gold sports desk, presenting sports shows such as Countdown to Kick off.  Two years later, he moved into television, working for BSB and then Screensport, where he was tennis commentator and skiing correspondent, covering the world championships across Europe and North America. He was also commentator on Screensport’s coverage of the 1991 Rugby World Cup, when England were beaten by Australia in the final.

The following year he became football reporter and presenter with Sky Sports after they won the rights to the newly-formed Premier League, anchoring programmes such as Soccer News and Sky Soccer Weekend.  Then in 1994 he switched to the summer game, joining Sky Sports cricket team. He was chief reporter for Pavilion End and Second Innings, and covered seven England tours abroad, witnessing Brian Lara’s world record-breaking 375 in Antigua, Shane Warne’s hat-trick in Melbourne, Michael Atherton’s match-saving 185 in Johannesburg, England’s first tour of Zimbabwe, and the first ever abandoned Test, in Jamaica. While in Australia, he also covered the dramatic climax of the 1994 Formula One season when Michael Schumacher took out Damon Hill to clinch the title.

In 1999 he was Sky’s chief reporter at the Cricket World Cup, after which he joined Sky News as sports presenter. In 2005 Charlie anchored Sky News live from the Oval as England regained the Ashes. 

Charlie grew up in Somerset and, despite now living in Hampshire,  remains a devoted Somerset supporter. He is married with three children, but still finds time to play guitar, piano, cricket and tennis.