Background
Davies was born on 24 March 1980 in Manchester. She is the daughter of sports journalist and sports administrator David Davies.
Davies was born on 24 March 1980 in Manchester. She is the daughter of sports journalist and sports administrator David Davies.
Amanda was educated at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Sky Sports
Davies joined Sky Sports as a runner straight from university in 2001. Later as an assistant producer she worked on a wide range of live sporting events, including the Cricket World Cup and United States Open. Davies joined Sky Sports News and worked in several positions, including assistant news editor, presenter and on-the-road producer, most notably spending seven weeks in Berlin producing the Sky Sports News coverage of the 2006 World Cup from Germany.
She was also an occasional reporter, making her presenting debut on Sky Sports News with Ian Payne in 2005.
British Broadcasting Corporation
She joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in April 2007. She was a regular presenter of sports bulletins on the British Broadcasting Corporation News Channel (formerly News 24), British Broadcasting Corporation World News, and Breakfast on British Broadcasting Corporation One - as well as the sports bulletins on the British Broadcasting Corporation 1 weekend news.
She was the presenter of British Broadcasting Corporation News F1 preview show Inside F1 every Friday and Saturday of race weekends, and in the 2008-2009 season she presented a weekly chat-based football programme on British Broadcasting Corporation World called Sport Today: Football Review. In August 2011, Amanda was given her own football show on British Broadcasting Corporation World News called Sports World Have Your Say - a global interactive conversation between football fans around the world.
lieutenant was a weekly show airing on Sunday evenings.
Davies was also a regular presenter of the British Broadcasting Corporation Sport"s Your News, travelling around the country to a different location every week, telling viewers" stories. Cable News Network
On 27 March 2012, Cable News Network confirmed that Davies would join their team of sports presenters from April. Charity work
On 30 January 2012, it was announced that Amanda had become the Patron of the Milk Bank at Queen Charlotte"s and Chelsea Hospital - where Molly was born 9 weeks early, and she is also an Ambassador for Sparks, and supporter of Bliss.