Laura Woods returns to screens for first time since pregnancy news to host Paris Olympics opening ceremony for Eurosport
LAURA WOODS has returned to TV for the first time since announcing her pregnancy.
The presenter and her Love Island boyfriend Adam Collard shared the news on Sunday.
Woods returned to the UK this month after leading ITV’s coverage of Euro 2024.
But she is now in Paris where she will front Eurosport’s coverage of the Olympics.
Woods, 37, appeared on screens for the opening ceremony wearing a black dress.
The Eurosport host will feature throughout the Games alongside fellow presenters Reshmin Chowdhury, Orla Cheannaoui and Craig Doyle.
Woods is expecting her first child with Adam, nine months after the couple made their relationship public.
Since then they have shared scores of loved-up posts and been through their share of challenges.
They have largely kept their relationship out of the public eye, which for former ladies’ man Adam, 28, shows he has turned a corner in his love life.
Adam spilled the beans on how he pulled Laura following a string of dates including at the Black Bull pub in Trimdon, Co Durham, and heading off for a weekend away in St Ives in early October before going public later that month.
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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.”
Eurosport's Olympic line-up in full
Presenters:
- Laura Woods
- Reshmin Chowdhury
- Orla Chennaoui
- Craig Doyle
Reporters:
- Radzi Chinyanganya
- Jaydee Dyer
- Caroline de Moraes
- Becky Ives
- Rachel Stringer
- Laura Winter
- Matt Smith
- Kate Mason
Pundits:
- Adam Blythe
- Tom Daley
- Laura Robson
- Shauna Coxsey
- Carl Frampton
- Stef Reid
- Joanna Roswell
- Ellie Simmonds
- Lizzie Simmonds
- Iwan Thomas
- Nile Wilson
Speaking exclusively to The Sun in October, he revealed he had wooed her with a series of flirty social media messages before wining and dining her on an “undercover date”.
He said: “The first time we met – I’ll hold my hands up – I did DM her first and got a reply but then nothing ever happened. Then she called us out for basically leaving her on read.
“It’s hard to meet people, isn’t it? I’m from Newcastle and eventually we met up, and then went on a very undercover date, and obviously what comes out in the press, comes out in the press, but it’s not always the full story.
“I’m kind of glad in a way as well, as I feel like there’s an element of having to hide too much now.”
Eurosport's Olympics studio in numbers
STAFF
- 190 essential crew daily for studio operations
- 168 on-air presenters
PRODUCTION
- 312 live hours produced from WBD House
- 13 markets, four studios, 3 stand-up positions
- 23 cameras – 15 peds cameras, 2 jibs, 1 techno jib, beauty cam, drone cam, 2 RF cameras 1 steadi-cam
CATERING
- 1460 breakfasts, 2060 lunches, 1850 dinners
- Sustainable catering, delivered on bikes, washable containers.
EQUIPMENT
- 78 tonnes lifted off the roof – equivalent weight of the Space Shuttle!
- 340 crane lifts – crane lift every 6 mins over 4 days
- 130 rigging crew during the 4-day rig
- 24 trucks of equipment
- 10km of power cables
- 15km of broadcast cables
- 72 outgoing lines
GUESTS
- Warner Bros. Discovery expected to welcome over 200 VIPs, including athletes and celebrities during Games-time