Clare Balding
Clare Balding
Clare Victoria Balding OBE is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist and author. She currently presents for BBC Sport, Channel 4, BT Sport and the religious/spiritual programme Good Morning Sunday on BBC Radio 2...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth29 January 1971
attitude children kids
Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.
quality important partners
The most important quality in a partner is a sense of humour.
golf play awful
I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.
dad thinking guy
Dad is a really surprising guy. Every time I think he's going to be useless, he ends up doing something amazing and saying exactly the right thing.
horse growing-up wanted
I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.
gay gay-marriage campaigns
I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.
dark despair want
A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.
laughing abuse homophobic
I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.
writing boring newsworthy
It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.
gay realizing
Lots of women don't realize that they're gay until they're grown up.
certain love luggage people type
People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.
biggest death diagnosis hear shock word
You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.
across male time
You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'
celebrated relationship sung written
The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.