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
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.
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I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.
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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.
Not everyone has to have children. If everyone had two or three, we'd run out of room.
boring fitting whole-life
Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.
gay gay-marriage campaigns
I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.
school thinking common
I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.
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.
golf play awful
I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.
hate i-hate minutes
I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.
horse growing-up wanted
I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.
I've never been particularly maternal.
kids thinking should-have
I think all kids should have something they feels is theirs.
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.