‘Tonight is the evening you die’: Sports presenter Laura Woods reveals years of torment at fingers of obsessed stalker – and trans zealots

TV star Laura Woods has spoken of her emotional four-year ordeal during which she was monstered by the trans-rights lobby, faced death threats from an obsessed stalker and suffered the heartbreak of a miscarriage.

The TNT sports presenter revealed how she was left living in ‘real fear’ after an obsessed football fan sent her a chilling birthday card which read: ‘Today’s the day you were born and tonight’s the night you’re going to die.’

During a ‘relentless’ three-year campaign, Harneet Kaur also created multiple online profiles to attack Ms Wood, signed her up to receive monthly letters from funeral and cremation services, reported her to animal welfare and sent testing kits for sexually transmitted infections to her home.

Last June, Kaur was jailed for 14 months and given a restraining order, banning her from going within 500 metres of the presenter’s home.

Ms Woods said: ‘It was terrifying. It was every possible way you could conceive that she would try to get to me. Dating websites, spam websites, it was relentless – I couldn’t understand how one person could do it all.’

She also spoke of how she was subjected to a vitriolic online hate campaign after she liked a sports journalist’s tweet which questioned why two boxers born with male chromosomes won medals in women’s boxing at last year’s Paris Olympics.

The backlash was so toxic that the 38-year-old, who was pregnant with her son Leo at the time, even endured death threats against her unborn baby.

Speaking to the same Daily Telegraph journalist whose tweet she liked, she added: ‘I didn’t put a single tweet out myself, I just liked your work. I was grateful someone was lifting the lid on it.

‘My whole point was that, in a sport like boxing, where someone could die, don’t you think that we should investigate?’

TNT sports presenter Laura Woods (pictured) has opened up about her four-year ordeal

Harneet Kaur (pictured) has been jailed for 14 months and given a restraining order banning her from going within 500 metres of the presenter’s home

Boxers Imane Khelif from Algeria and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting sparked a storm of controversy when they were both permitted to compete despite failing sex tests.

In June, a leaked medical report from 2023 suggested that Khelif, who won the women’s boxing gold medal, is a biological male. Khelif is still to respond to the claims.

Ms Woods said she had wanted to speak out on the subject much earlier in her career but held back for fear of a backlash.

‘At the time, it would have been a death sentence if I had said: ‘I don’t think it’s fair that biological men compete in sport against women’,’ she said.

‘I had watched other women and men who had called this out be wiped off the face of the planet.

‘I had a mortgage and bills to pay. That might be cowardice. But when the Paris Games came along, I was older, I felt in a much stronger position.’

She also told of her heartbreak over her miscarriage, which her fiance Adam Collard, 30, revealed on Channel 4’s Celebrity SAS.

‘He asked me, “What if it comes up?” I said, “It’s not a stigma. I don’t want this to be something we have to hide,”‘ she said.

‘It’s strange – it’s a loss of something you’ve never had, that you’ve never met, but you feel a real connection to it.’