You may know Michael Thomson from seeing his face on your televisions on Nine’s 6 o’clock news, but what do we know about the stories that got him to where he is today.

He joined Gary Adshead in the 6PR Mornings studio to tell-all about his upbringing, involvement in sports and career path that shaped who he is today.

“My childhood was very enjoyable, one of six kids growing up in Como – absolutely loved it. I felt very lucky, our parents were very good people, very switched on,” Michael told Gary.

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Sports mad and a nature lover since young, thanks to his fathers passion for fishing and camping, ‘Thommo’ entered the world of journalism once his shot at studying law fell through.

“I wanted to be a lawyer, I like talking as you well know Gary so I thought being a barrister would be good money – I didn’t get in on the first year and I knew second year would be a lot more difficult,

“There was a guy, Barry Thornton at my cricket club who was the Chief of Staff at the Daily News Newspaper and he said ‘you know sports reporting is an interesting one’ and I thought that’ll be pretty interesting.”