Frederik Lauesen (born 10 November 1972)[1] is a Danish TV presenter, who has been head of sport for the Danish channel TV 2 since September 2008.[2]
He is well known in Denmark and France for presenting the sports news, including presenting of the Danish coverage of the Tour de France.[3] He worked on TV 2 Sport from 1998, presenting the magazine show LPS,[2] before becoming editorial director of the news department for a year.[4] He was criticised by a women's handball team, FC Midtjylland, in December 2009 after he called the women's game unexciting.[5][6]
He grew up in Kolding. He lives in Odense with his two children.[1] He met his Greenland-born[7] wife Laila Sylvester Grossmann in 2000,[8] and they married in 2006.[9] She died in November 2007 aged 39 from a heart attack.[10] Lauesen and his family received over one million krone in compensation for her death after making a complaint about the three doctors who treated her.[11]
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