Jo Wilson was born in 1984 and is from Perth, Scotland. As a teenager she was a competitive sprinter and jumper, representing Perth and her county, and received an athletics scholarship at 17 that took her abroad for a year.

She studied a sports media degree at the University of Stirling before completing a Masters in Journalism (MA Multimedia Journalism, NCTJ-accredited) at Glasgow Caledonian University, graduating in 2011. While studying, she worked at Pizza Hut in Stirling.

Wilson joined Sky Sports News in 2011 as a Graduate Trainee, initially creating on-screen graphics as a junior sub-editor, before being promoted to sub-editor (cutting pictures and writing scripts), then co-producer. After a six-week reporting secondment, she moved into on-screen shifts and made her presenting debut in 2015.

She currently presents for Sky Sports News, and has covered major tournaments including presenting live from Sky’s studio at the Euros at Wembley. In 2022, shortly after the birth of her daughter Mabel, Wilson was diagnosed with stage three cervical cancer; she has since been cancer-free for over two years and shared her experience in the Sky Sports News documentary “Football, Cancer and Me.”