Laura Woods was overcome with emotion while paying tribute to her former colleague Nigel Pearson live on air with talkSPORT on Monday afternoon.
News broke on Friday that Pearson had died at the age of 52 following a "sudden illness". Best known for his work while covering darts and Speedway, Pearson spent 15 years with Sky Sports as part of their darts team after joining in 2006. The BBC Radio Humberside reporter was also one of talkSPORT's first broadcasters following its inception in 1995.
Woods was talking in the wake of a montage of tributes and condolences from those close to Pearson when she said: "I knew Nigel from the age of, I think, 21 when I started at Sky. And just exactly what his friends and colleagues were saying there, you really became a friend to Nigel. If Nigel was around you or one of your colleagues, he wasn't just a friend, he was such a source of support and a real source of joy.
