Christmas is over and the Paddy Power PDC World Darts Championship is back on TV screens – and Daily Star Sport has a closer look at one of the hosts, Anna Woolhouse
Anna Woolhouse has become a firm favourite of darts fans down the years.
The Sky Sports presenter has resume her gig as the host of the afternoon sessions at the Paddy Power PDC World Darts Championship this Christmas. Anna, who joined Sky way back in 2012, juggles darts hosting duties with boxing’s biggest events.
She took some brief time away from the Ally Pally this winter to jet out to Saudi Arabia – tasked with hosting Oleksandr Usyk’s heavyweight bout with Tyson Fury.
Born in Market Deeping in 1984, Anna graduated from Leeds University where she achieved a BA Honours degree in music – later gaining a post-graduate degree in broadcast journalism as she pursued a career in the media.
She would get her start in radio before switching to Sky in 2012. Anna has also hosted Netball, Ice Hockey and F1 shows – most notably on the ‘Midweek Report’.
These days she’s most often seen fronting the broadcasters boxing coverage.
It’s an emotional time for Anna, during the World Darts Championship, and she recently paid tribute to her brother, Harry. Harry Woolhouse tragically passed away in a Malaysian bus crash 10 years ago.
Alongside four photos, she wrote on Instagram: “Happy Heavenly Birthday Harry. Today you would have been 43, you are missed more than ever. To anyone else missing loved ones around this time, sending so much love x.”
Writing on Facebook back in 2014 about the tragic death of his son, Anna and Harry’s dad, Christopher, wrote: “The way the news came to us was that my daughter got a message on Facebook and that is the first we knew about it.
“Harry did more in 30 years than most. I might have expected him to die during his climbing or snowboarding or something like that, not to be killed in a bus.”