Sophie Blake
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Sophie Blake is an English television presenter and former model.

Career

Blake studied drama, and then travelled working in bars and restaurants for a few years. She did some modelling, and put a home-made show-reel together which United Sports picked up, and got her interviewing footballers in the back of limousines. She then worked on Sport on Five
Sport on Five
Sport on Five may refer to:*Five Live Sport - BBC Radio 5 programme, formerly Sport on 5*Five...

 on Five, including presenting Techno Games
Techno Games
Techno Games was BBC Television's Olympic Games for robots. It was a spin-off from the hugely successful Robot Wars. The TV series was shown on BBC2 every weekday for a fortnight from the third Monday in March just after Science Week...

.

Blake used to work for Sky Sports
Sky Sports
Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of sports-oriented television channels operated by the UK and Ireland's main satellite pay-TV company, British Sky Broadcasting. Sky Sports is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland...

 presenting speedway
Motorcycle speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually...

, she stood down from this role at the end of the 2007 season. She has also interviewed for the Mosconi Cup
Mosconi Cup
The Mosconi Cup is an annual nine-ball pool tournament contested between teams representing Europe and the USA since 1994. The trophy is named after American player Willie Mosconi, and is modeled on and compared to the Ryder Cup in golf...

 and the Super Bowl
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League , the highest level of professional American football in the United States, culminating a season that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year. The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather...

 coverage. She has recently used this higher exposure and her looks to appear in a series of "lads mags" including Maxim
Maxim (magazine)
Maxim is an international men's magazine based in the United Kingdom and known for its pictorials featuring popular actresses, singers, and female models, sometimes pictured dressed, often pictured scantily dressed but not fully nude....

and Nuts
Nuts (magazine)
Nuts is a weekly lad mag published in the United Kingdom. It was the first weekly lads magazine to be published in the UK and is sold every Tuesday...

as well as appearing topless in Page Three.

Personal life

Blake has 1 younger sister Lucy and 2 half-sisters Charlotte (14) and Nia (4).Sophie Blake and her partner Scott Nicholls
Scott Nicholls
Scott Nicholls is a British speedway rider who is participating in the 2009 Speedway Grand Prix competition and is the captain of the Great Britain speedway team.- Career biography :...

 have a daughter born in May 2007, Maya. In 2009 Blake was diagnosed with Asherman's syndrome
Asherman's syndrome
Asherman's syndrome , also called "uterine synechiae" or intrauterine adhesions , presents a condition characterized by the presence of adhesions and/or fibrosis within the uterine cavity due to scars...

where due to complications from the birth of her first child the formation of scar tissue causes adhesions in the womb.
In November 2010, against all odds, Sophie announced that she and partner Nicholls were expecting their 2nd child.
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