Amanda Davies (born 24 March 1980) is an English

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Early life

Davies was born on 24 March 1980 in

Manchester Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...

. She is the daughter of sports journalist and sports administrator David Davies. She was educated from the age of five to nine at

Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls Haberdashers' Girls' School is a Private schools in the United Kingdom, private day school in Elstree, Hertfordshire. It is often referred to as "Habs" (or "Habs Girls" to distinguish it from the neighbouring Haberdashers' Boys' School). The sch ...

in Elstree,

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, before the family moved to the Midlands, where she continued her education at

King Edward VI High School for Girls King Edward VI High School for Girls (KEHS) is an all-girls public school (United Kingdom), public school located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. It was founded in 1883 and occupies the same site as, and is twinned with the King Edward's Scho ...

Edgbaston Edgbaston () is a suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It lies immediately south-west of Birmingham city centre, and was historically in Warwickshire. The Ward (electoral subdivision), wards of Edgbaston and Nort ...

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. She graduated from

St Edmund Hall, Oxford St Edmund Hall (also known as The Hall and Teddy Hall) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. The college claims to be "the oldest surviving academic society to house and educate undergraduates in any university" and was the las ...

, in 2001 with a degree in geography, where she won the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize for journalism.

Career

Sky Sports

Davies joined

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as a runner straight from university in 2001. Later as an assistant producer she worked on a wide range of live sporting events, including the

Cricket World Cup The ICC Men's Cricket World Cup is a quadrennial world cup for cricket in One Day International (ODI) format, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The tournament is one of the world's most viewed sporting events and consid ...

and US Open. Davies joined

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and worked in several positions, including assistant news editor, presenter and on-the-road producer, most notably spending seven weeks in Berlin producing the Sky Sports News coverage of the

2006 FIFA World Cup The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which had won the right to FIFA World Cup hosts ...

from Germany. She was also an occasional reporter, making her presenting debut on Sky Sports News with Ian Payne in 2005.

BBC

She joined the

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in April 2007. She was a regular presenter of sports bulletins on the

BBC News Channel The BBC News channel is a British free-to-air public broadcast television news channel owned and operated by the BBC. The channel is based at and broadcasts from Broadcasting House in the West End of London from which it is anchored during ...

(formerly News 24),

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, and ''

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'' on

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, as well as the sports bulletins on the BBC 1 weekend news. She was the presenter of BBC News F1 preview show ''Inside F1'' every Friday and Saturday of race weekends, and in the 2008–09 season she presented a weekly chat-based football programme on BBC World called '' Sport Today: Football Review''. In August 2011, Davies was given her own football show on BBC World News called '' Sports World Have Your Say'', a global interactive conversation between football fans around the world. It was a weekly show airing on Sunday evenings. Davies was also a regular presenter of the

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's '' Your News'', travelling around the country to a different location every week, telling viewers' stories.

CNN

On 27 March 2012,

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confirmed that Davies would join their team of sports presenters from April. Davies is the main sports anchor on CNN, and hosts daily sports news show '' World Sport'', as well as monthly F1 show ''The Circuit''. She has fronted CNN's coverage of all the major international sports events since joining, including the Olympics in London 2012, Sochi 2014, Rio 2016 and Pyeongchang 2018; the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, 2016 European Championships in France and the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

Charity work

After the premature birth of her daughter Molly, Davies became a supporter of a number of baby charities. On 30 January 2012, it was announced that she had become the patron of the Milk Bank at

Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital is one of the oldest maternity hospitals in Europe, founded in 1739 in London. Until October 2000, it occupied sites in Marylebone Road and at 339–351 Goldhawk Road, Hammersmith, but is now located betw ...

, where Molly was born 9 weeks early. She is also an Ambassador for Sparks, and supporter of Bliss.

Personal life

Davies lives in

West London West London is the western part of London, England, north of the River Thames, west of the City of London, and extending to the Greater London boundary. The term is used to differentiate the area from the other parts of London: Central London, N ...

with her daughter Molly (b. 2009). She is also a supporter of

Manchester United F.C. Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd) or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. They compete in the Premier League, t ...

Now(On the 21st of April of 2025 she is going to interview lots of sport idols in Madrid, Spain.

References

External links

AmandaDavies.com
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