Sky Sports presenter Anna Woolhouse pays touching tribute to brother killed in horror bus crash

Sky Sports host Anna Woolhouse has paid a touching tribute to her late brother, who tragically died in a bus crash.

Harry Woolhouse was travelling on a bus in Malaysia when it flipped and fell down a ravine ten years ago, dying aged just 32. Woolhouse discovered the news following a shift working at Sky Sports.

The darts and boxing host commemorated her sibling's birthday in an emotional post on Instagram. Woolhouse also provided a message of support to anyone going through a similar thing over the festive period, reports The Mirror.

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Alongside four photographs of Harry taking part in activities such as snowboarding, she wrote: "Happy Heavenly Birthday Harry. Today you would have been 43, you are missed more than ever. To anyone else missing loved ones around this time, sending so much love x."

Woolhouse has previously admitted finding the Christmas period difficult following her brother's passing. She told the Off The Canvas podcast in 2018: "Christmas is not an easy time, especially with his birthday being around then.

"The first Christmas… that first year was quite a blur. The first Christmas was tough; we didn’t spend it at home, we spent it away with friends in Wales. It's not easy, it’s the first of everything; the anniversary, the birthday, the Christmas. There are things that never leave you and it still hits me like a ton of bricks but the first of everything is the hardest."

The Sky Sports mainstay has been providing coverage from Alexandra Palace in recent days, and helped front the broadcaster's Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk production. It was following a shift providing coverage on Sky Sports News that Woolhouse discovered her brother's death.

Harry Woolhouse passed away aged just 32
(Image: Instagram/ AnnaWoolhouse)

"Four years ago my brother Harry worked in Singapore as a chemical engineer," she said in 2018. "He lived life to the full and went with some mates to Malaysia for the weekend to kite surf.

"They took a bus back, it was raining and the bus flipped and went down a ravine - Harry was the only one who was killed on the bus. That day changed my life forever, April 20.

"I found out through one of my brother’s friends who i didn’t know. I'd finished a shift on Sky Sports News and I got home and had a message saying my brother had been killed and I had to tell my parents."

Woolhouse has covered a diverse range of sports for Sky Sports and made her start presenting a weekly ice hockey show. The 40-year-old then graduated to Sky Sports News before being given her own F1 show on their specialist channel.

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