About Tony

Tony is a TV presenter and self-development author. He’s known for his innovative and down-to-earth techniques and is the UK’s top personal development audiobook author on iTunes.

Tony Wrighton has been a presenter on Sky Sports News since 2006. He also presents football, darts, boxing, hockey, squash, bowls, athletics, and even live ten-pin bowling for Sky Sports and ITV4. In addition he regularly presents sports programmes in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and much of Asia with Matchroom Sport.

 

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Tony absolutely loves presenting sport on TV and he is a passionate cricket supporter, having followed the England team around the world. He loves playing sports including golf, cricket, football, snowboarding, pool and table football (spot the mis-spent youth!).

Outside sport, Tony has interviewed stars of music such as Take That and Britney Spears, Oscar-winning actors and actresses, and his undoubted favourite – Kylie Minogue.  His broadcasting career has seen him work everywhere from New York to Newport, from Florida to Fir park.
You can catch Tony currently on Sky Sports News, as well as the specialist sports programmes he presents which run on Sky Sports channels 1-4.

 

 

Tony’s other life involves being one of the UK’s top personal development authors and presenters. He has three books published with Virgin Books

Tony has 16 audiobooks and 14 iPhone and iPad apps available. He has sold over 150,000 copies on iTunes and is currently in the self-development charts in Britain, USA, Canada, Ireland and Australia and many other countries around the world.

His book Confidence in a minute has been translated a number of different languages around the world including Chinese, Spanish,  Japanese, Turkish, Dutch and Croatian. His second book Relax in a minute is also being translated into multiple different languages.  After spending much of last year writing (slaving!) over his third book - Persuade in a minute was published on September 1st.

Tony is a licensed NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer and accredited Mind Factor Coach and Master Mind Factor Coach. He is building an expanding portfolio of top-end clients from various fields, including a number of top 30 ranked sportsmen and women and top businessmen/women.

He has extensively studied in these techniques used by successful people in many walks of life.  He has been refining his own down-to-earth, original personal development style for a decade and with his audiobooks has inspired hundreds of thousands to feel more confident, relaxed, win at sport, improve their business, and make a change to their lives. He also coaches individuals and businesses to achieve exceptional improvements in the areas of performance, communication, confidence and motivation.


What they say

The Sun

"Will have you gliding through life on a cloud of persuasive charisma." 8/10/11

Daily Record

"Simple physical exercises and mental techniques that can help you deal with problems" 11/10/11

Daily Express

"Boost your self-esteem and build assertiveness with these easy-to-follow exercises" 16/8/10