LAURA Woods has taken the world of presenting by storm and has now given birth to her first child.
But things haven’t always been plain-sailing for the 37-year-old, who was born in Dagenham.
As Laura Woods gives birth to her first child, here we take a look inside her life away from the spotlight[/caption]
From her stalker hell and relentless trolling, to her Love Island romance and impressive net worth[/caption]
From being relentlessly trolled, to her stalker hell, here, we take a look inside Laura Woods’ life away from the spotlight.
Impressive net worth
Laura kick-started her career by taking up print journalism at Kingston University.
Laura has an estimated net worth of around £2million[/caption]
Upon graduating, she got a job at Sky Sports as a runner, working her way up to become an editorial assistant before stepping sideways into the world of production.
She initially started presenting behind the scenes interviews for darts on the broadcaster’s YouTube channel, before securing a spot on Saturday morning children’s show Game Changers.
She then moved on to report on the NFL as well as working for the Soccer AM online presenting team, before breaking into the industry as a Super Sunday pitch-side reporter.
Now, thanks to her punditry ventures and various TV appearances, the TNT Sports and ITV star has amassed a very impressive net worth.
The TV presenter and journalist, who has become one of the most popular presenters in the land with the star often the face of Champions League coverage, now has an estimated net worth of around £2million – a sum which makes her one of the UK’s richest hosts.
Love Island romance
Not only has got an impressive net worth under her belt, but the new mum-of-one is also dating Adam Collard, Love Island’s hot lothario.
The pair began dating in 2023 and Adam himself revealed that it was he who initially slid into the presenter’s DMs.
The Geordie soon declared that Laura was ‘the one’ for him when their relationship went public after Laura shared a quickly deleted slew of loved-up snaps online.
The couple now often share cuddly photos together on social media, with Adam dubbing his beau ‘a little bit of everything’ and Laura captioning a series of snaps including Adam ‘things I love’.
Their relationship blossomed after Laura broke up with boyfriend of eight years and England rugby star Alex Corbisiero, while Adam had previously dated Zara McDermott, Sarah Godfrey and Paige Thorne.
She’s been dating Adam since 2023[/caption]
Speaking on her last relationship with Alex Corbisiero, Laura told The Sun: “My last relationship was eight years and I was nearing 30 when we broke up. It was my decision – it was the right one and I’ve never regretted it.
“We’d lived in each other’s pockets and breaking up with him felt like coming up for air. The next thing for us was probably marriage and having kids.
“And I do want that one day – I love being in love and I love kids. But I’ve prioritised work because I love that too and my ambitions are important to me.”
But back in September last year, Laura and Adam took their relationship to the next level, when Adam popped the question at the place they ‘fell in love’.
Adam got down on one knee on a beach in Cornwall, and Laura was delighted to say yes.
Adam popped the question in Cornwall[/caption]
She claimed Adam makes her ‘happy’ and described the engagement as ‘so special’[/caption]
She later took to social media to announce her engagement and wrote: “And just like that…
You make me happy @adamcollard 
“Thank you @carbisbayestate – the place we fell in love and now the place we got engaged, you made it so special 
What a summer x”
Now, Laura and Adam have now welcomed their first child together – Leo Ernie Collard.
How Laura Woods tamed Love Island bad boy Adam Collard
HE was one of Love Island’s most notorious bad boys – but one woman seems to have changed all that.
Personal trainer Adam Collard, 28, has been dating Euro 2024 presenter Laura Woods, 36, since 2023.
The former loverat has called her “The One,” spent Christmas with her – the first time he’s done so with a girlfriend since he was 21 – and kept their relationship relatively out of the limelight, seemingly on Laura’s wishes.
It’s a far cry from the man who admits himself he’s been “ruthless” in the past, claims to have had 25 girlfriends, and spent many years partying and juggling flings with girls including Zara McDermott and Lottie Moss.
Relationship expert Jo Hemmings says: “He’s now 28, he’s a professional with a job, and I think he just went off the whole idea of ever realistically meeting somebody on a TV show.
“He’s now met somebody who is also a professional, and is only on TV as a byproduct of what she does in sport.
“He’s got himself in a comfortable place. Financially, he’s older, he’s more mature, he’s more settled.
“He once played into this roguish character that people saw him as, and became a parody of himself. But look who’s laughing now.
“He’s got a fabulous girlfriend, they’re in a long term relationship, he’s well off, he’s still in the public eye, and he’s getting on with his life in the way that I think he always wanted.”
Adam announced the happy news on Instagram and shared a host of snaps showing the new parents getting to grips with their bundle of joy.
Laura was seen enjoying a recovery cup of tea in hospital, before pics of the pair taking Leo home and meeting Laura’s dog Lu.
Stalker hell
But despite her dreamy romance with Adam, things haven’t always been rosy for this sports presenter.
Prior to welcoming her first child, the award-winning sports presenter was harassed for two years by a female football fan who sent her unwanted deliveries including an STI testing kit.
Laurawas left living in “real fear” during the campaign of harassment by Harneet Kaur, 25, who has now been jailed.
Liverpool fan Harneet became infatuated with Laura and harassed her over a two year period.
A family friend revealed Harneet was originally trying to contact Woods over promoting an eating app.
But, the contact turned to harassment with Harneet sending terrifying threats to kill Laura’s dog and sending Bibles, sexual health tests and food orders to the broadcaster’s London home.
The harassment campaign had an “enormous and devastating” effect on the presenter, Laura said in her victim impact statement.
The family friend said that Harneet had been working in a sales job for a window company before being laid off during Covid.
The friend said: “Harneet has done wrong, she accepts that, her family accepts that and has served her time and will learn from her mistakes.
“The good news for her is that she has a very supportive family and she will move on from this.”
Harneet’s family live in a smart semi-detached house in Walsall, West Mids.
Her father, an accountant, came to Britain as a seven-year-old to join his own father and has four children with his wife, of which Harneet is the second youngest.
Messages posted by Harneet online called Laura a “vile, stuck-up person”, a “Tory”, and even labelled her a “former prostitute who slept herself into a job”.
In October, Harneet posted a message saying “wtf is that coke head doing at Anfield” as well as a photo of Laura’s face on the body of an “overweight man”.
Harneet was arrested in April 2022 and re-arrested in August later the same year.
Her phone and iPad were seized both times, but the arrests failed to stop Harneet harassing Laura.
Sentencing her to 14 months in prison, the Judge said Harneet would have known the impact she was having on Laura.
‘Really nasty’ trolling
And not only has Laura had to deal with her stalking hell, but she’s also found herself subject to relentless trolling on more than one occasion.
She’s also found herself trolled online on numerous occasions[/caption]
Prior to giving birth to her beautiful son, when speaking on the Monday Mile with Aimee Fuller podcast, Laura claimed that not only do male trolls call her a c**t, but women slam her for being childless.
Laura explained that she is “old enough and ugly enough to deal with it”, but she worries about younger women entering into the celebrity world.
She said: “I would love to get all those people in one room and say ‘you called me fat, you called me skinny, you said that I am nearly 40 and childless and I need to buck up my ideas, you’re telling me I shouldn’t date this person because I know him better than I do’, all of these different things, I’ve had it all.
“Most of the time you go ‘right, I’m just not going to let that get to me’, but every now and then you kind of go ‘yeah, this is actually a bit s**t and why do I have to tick everyone’s boxes?’”
It does bother me, but you’ve got to get to a point where you don’t look at it
Laura Woods
The star, who previously faced a horror facial injury, explained that she no longer reads everything that’s written about her, in an attempt to protect her happiness.
“I’ve changed a lot of my settings now so I can’t see certain things. Back in the day, I used to meticulously read every single tweet.
“Why would I allow that opinion of someone, who doesn’t know who I am, to influence the way that I live my life? I have to separate it, but it’s hard to,” she added.
But Laura confessed that she is “sensitive” and admits that the trolling does bother her.
She confessed: “I’m sensitive, I’m a people pleaser, I want everyone to be happy and I don’t want to upset anyone or offend anyone.
“But then you live your life by trying to make those people happy and you end up not being happy in yourself. It does bother me, but you’ve got to get to a point where you don’t look at it.
“The more well known you become, the more that happens. Every time you’re opening social media, you’re allowing them into your head.”
The dedicated Arsenal fan claimed that X, formerly Twitter, can be a “really nasty place”, as she admitted: “If my team loses, I’m not going anywhere near it. I’ll see loads of people berating me and it’ll make me feel even worse.
“Sometimes if someone sends me something awful, I’ll have a look at their page and who they’re interacting with, and sometimes I respond.
“There are massive benefits of being in the public eye – it’s great. But it also gives people access to you in a way.
“You’re not really ever trained to accept or reject that feedback. That’s feedback on a completely different level.
“I really worry about youngsters that are coming through. There’s so many young girls that I speak to that have social media presences, and I think they’re amazing, but they’re dealing with a different layer of social media, even to what I deal with now.
“Football can be amazing on Twitter, but it can also be a really nasty place, if it’s against you.
“I’m old enough and ugly enough to deal with Bob from West Brom dealing me a c**t.”
