LAUR BLIMEY
‘I get called a c*** and am constantly shamed for not having kids, people can be so nasty’, reveals Laura Woods
LAURA Woods has opened up on the vile social media abuse she receives and admits it does “bother” her.
The 36-year-old TNT Sports and ITV star revealed all on the Monday Mile with Aimee Fuller podcast, where she claimed that not only do male trolls call her a c**t, but women slam her for being childless.
4
4
4
4
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, explained that she is “old enough and ugly enough to deal with it”, but she worries about younger women entering into the celebrity world.
Laura, who is a pundit for this years Euros, and is dating Adam Collard, Love Island’s hot lothario, explained: “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?’”
The star, who recently faced a horror facial injury, explained that she no longer reads everything that’s written about her, in an attempt to protect her happiness.
Read more on Laura Woods
She added: “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.”
Laura, who left the talkSPORT Breakfast Show earlier this year, revealed that she is “sensitive” and admits that the trolling does bother her.
Most read in Celebrity
“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," she said.
"But then you live your life by trying to make those people happy and you end up not being happy in yourself.
Laura Woods gets hair done and dresses up for award show
“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”, Laura continued.
The dedicated Arsenal fan claimed that Twitter can be a “really nasty place”, as she confessed: “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’m old enough and ugly enough to deal with Bob from West Brom dealing me a c**t
Laura Woods
“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.”
It does bother me, but you’ve got to get to a point where you don’t look at it
Laura Woods
Not only did Laura open up on the podcast, which was shared back in October, about dealing with trolling in the public eye, but prior to coupling up with her now beau Adam, she explained how she put her career before love.
The blonde beauty expressed: “I actively put my career first, I would work all hours of the day.
Laura's stalking hell
IT'S previously been reported that Laura Woods suffered two years of stalking hell.
The presenter was said to have been left in "real fear" after an obsessed stalker sent her vile messages and threatened to kidnap her dog.
She endured two years of torment as Harneet Kaur, 25, targeted her online and sent unwanted packages to her home.
Female Liverpool FC fan Kaur became infatuated with Laura back in 2021 and began visiting the street she lived on, a court heard.
The sick campaign involved terrifying threats to kill Laura's dog and vile messages where she referred to the pundit as a prostitute.
Bibles, sexual health tests and food orders were also arranged to be delivered to Laura's London pad.
Kaur used Just Eat to arrange for Krispy Kreme doughnuts to be delivered to the address.
Judge Talog Davies said Ms Woods was initially "pleasantly surprised and thought it was a mistake or somebody being nice", so posted a picture on her Twitter account saying they had "made her evening".
Kaur sent a Starbucks order and chocolate lollipop with the message: "From your secret admirer and I'm not crazy".
The contact then started turning "darker" when Woods, who presents for TNT Sport, was bombarded with messages.
One said she was a "former prostitute who slept herself into a job".
Kaur was arrested in April 2022 and re-arrested in August later the same year.
Her phone and iPad were seized both times, but that "didn't stop her".
In October, she posted a picture of Woods commentating at Anfield with the caption: "Wtf is that coke head doing at Anfield."
Kaur also sent messages saying Ms Woods was a 'Tory' and wasn't welcome in Liverpool ahead of a match she was due to attend.
Kaur, who has autism, was previously banned from Liverpool's ground for ticket touting.
While Kaur's barrister claimed her offending was down to autistic traits of "obsession and compulsion", judge Talog Davies rubbished the arguments.
Sentencing her to 14 months in prison, he said Kaur would have known the impact she was having on Woods.
Woods suffers from anxiety and has been forced to increase security at home and while at work.
Prosecutors said Kaur's actions had left Ms Woods with a "real fear" that the defendant would get close to her while she was working.
“It does mean that you just don't have space in your mind to focus on something else - I wanted to do that. So the relationships in my life, I would never have considered them as anything serious.
“Then after a while, if you don’t have someone to share it all with, you get sad, you get lonely, you attract the wrong kind of attention, and I just got bored of that, I didn’t want to do that.
“When I do settle down properly, and get married, there’s no going back. That’s it. That is it.
READ MORE SUN STORIES
“I don’t wanna get divorced, I want to be in it 100%.”
Fabulous will pay for your exclusive stories. Just email: [email protected] and pop EXCLUSIVE in the subject line.
Topics