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Name Lynsey Hooper
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB Born in April 1982. As of 2024, she is around 42 years old.
Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Spouse / Partner No confirmed information is available.
Children / No. of Kids No confirmed information is available.
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race White
Nationality British
What is Lynsey Hooper doing now? She continues to work as a freelance broadcaster, journalist producer and consultant.
Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

  • Lynsey Hooper is a British freelance sports broadcaster and voiceover professional.
  • She is also a presenter for IMG’s Premier League News, a reporter for BBC Sport and Matchday Live, the co-founder of the female-driven podcast The Offside Rule (We Get It!). The Offside Rule (We Get It!), launched in 2012 has since garnered over half a million listens, earning wide-spread industry recognition.

Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education

  • Lynsey Hooper was born to a family that was passionate about sports.
  • While at school, she took up long-distance running during school.
  • Lynsey attended Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England, which is famed for its athletics programmes. She was there from 2000 to 2004.

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

  • During her university career, Lynsey worked for both the student radio station and the students’ union television station – LSU TV. She was a presenter, programme controller and station manager for the radio station, and a presenter for the television station.
  • She was also a development officer and a regional officer for The Student Radio Association from June 2002 to June 2004. She was responsible for planning, coordinating and executing the Student Radio Awards in collaboration with both BBC’s Radio One, and The Radio Academy. Her duties also included booking DJs, presenters, and bands.
  • Currently, Hooper is working as a presenter for IMG’s Premier League News, as a reporter for IMG’s Matchday Live and as a reporter for the BBC’s Final Score.
  • She also does voice continuity work and voiceover for the Sky Sports Mix channel, as well as voiceover for the FIFA Football Show.

Notable Achievements :

  • Lynsey co-founded the football podcast The Offside Rule (We Get It), which she hosts together with Hayley McQueen and Kait Borsay.
  • She has done presenting, reporting, and production work for two Olympic Games (London 2012 and Rio 2016), two World Cups (FIFA Rio World Cup 2014, 2015, FIFA Women’s World Cup), and the football European Championship of 2016 in France.
  • She also anchored and presented the sailing World Match Racing Tour in 2012.
  • Lynsey has been a presenter, reporter, and producer for talkSPORT Radio, ESPN, ITV, ITN, BT Sport, Reuters, and Sky Sports News.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

  • Lynsey is also very passionate about radio. She started out on hospital radio at the age of thirteen. She won the bronze award for the best female presenter at the Student Radio Awards in 2002.
  • She also dabbles in event hosting and guest speaking. Some of the events she has hosted have been the London FA Awards, Sports Pro Live, and even an official dinner for the University of Wolverhampton.
  • Hooper’s podcast The Offside Rule (We Get It!) has won “Best Football Podcast” at the 2015 Football Blogging Awards and has been chosen by the prestigious newspaper The Guardian as part of the top 5 sports podcasts in 2017.
  • Lynsey has attended the Football Writers’ Association Awards gala.
  • She is a big fan of long-distance runner Paula Radcliffe, the fastest female marathon runner of all time.
  • Lynsey initially wanted to have a career in sports and become an Olympian, but she went into sports journalism instead.
  • She credits her family’s love for football with inspiring her from a very young age.

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