Clare Balding is a famous BBC Presenter and renowned author, well known for hosting BBC Sport, Channel 4 and BT Sport and previously, Good Morning Sunday on BBC Radio 2.
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Born on January 29, 1971, in England, Balding graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge, where she studied English, and was President of the Cambridge Union Society.
Balding has “reported from seven Olympic Games, for BBC Radio in Atlanta and for BBC Television in Sydney, Athens, Beijing, London, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo.”
She has also presented “five Paralympic Games, the Winter Olympics from Salt Lake City, Turin, Vancouver, Sochi Pyeongchang and Beijing as well as the Commonwealth Games from Melbourne, Delhi, Glasgow, and Gold Coast.”
Balding presented Grandstand from a Rugby League Challenge Cup semi-final, and later went on to serve as the 30th president of the Rugby Football League.
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Clare Balding Books
Balding wrote the books My Animals and Other Family, The Racehorse Who Disappeared, Walking Home, and many others.
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Clare Balding Family
Balding is married to media personality Alice Arnold.
Clare Balding Wedding
Clare and her gay partner, Alice, got married in an official wedding ceremony in 2015, when gay marriage was legalized.
Clare Balding Twitter
Balding is on Twitter @Clare Balding.
Clare Balding Instagram
Balding is on Instagram @clarebalding with 65.6k followers.
Clare Balding Awards
Balding has won several awards such as the Royal Television Society’s “Sports Presenter of the Year”, “Racing Journalist of the Year Award”, “Biography/Autobiography of the Year” award of the National Book Awards, BBC Sports Broadcaster of the Year and a CBE in 2022.
Balding hosts the Lord Mayor’s Show and other BBC shows like Trooping the Colour, New Year’s Eve and lead commentary for the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, and several others.
Balding now hosts her own sports chat show tagged The Clare Balding Show, on BT Sport and BBC Two, where she has interviewed the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Tom Daley, Mike Tyson, Martina Navratilova, Frankie Dettori, Judy Murray and Ronnie O’Sullivan.
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